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With us now, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz,

who has a new book called The Road to Freedom, Economics,

and the Good Society. Among other things, and the good society.

Among other things, he centers a much-needed inspection

of how we use the word freedom in the context

of our financial lives, and he argues

that the way the idea of freedom has been weaponized has led to

economic pain for so many Americans and others we will hear this case.

Joseph Stiglitz is the chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute Think Tank and an economics professor at Columbia.

He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 for research on the Theory of markets with asymmetric information and I know that sounds

really wonky but I'm actually going to ask him about that too because it might relate to how much

you pay for health insurance among many many other things, Joseph Stiglitz

was the chair of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors

and then chief economist of the World Bank

later in the Clinton years of late 1990s.

Again, the book is called The Road to Freedom, Economics and the Good Society.

Professor Stiglitz, thanks for coming on.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Great to be here. Let's just write right into your critique of how the political right uses the word

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