By FEPS and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz agreed to work on the European twin publication to Professor Stiglitz’s bestseller “Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy”. In partnership with the Renner Institute and Policy Network, FEPS launched a reflection process with a group of high-level scholars and politicians from all over Europe with the aim of developing proposals for new rules after 10 years of economic, social and political crisis.
Rebalancing the EU’s trade policy will require an opening up of the negotiation and drafting procedures.
The ideas expressed during this process served as the basis for the final report that will be presented on March 21st. This report, authored by Joseph Stiglitz, will be published and disseminated as a book by W.W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers, in the second half of 2019.
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