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El nuevo libro de Joseph Stiglitz, Premio Nobel de Economa Un argumento slido a favor de un capitalismo progresista basado en la cooperacin para el bien comn. -Kirkus La libertad es la idea que subyace a las sociedades occidentales, pero de un tiempo a esta parte su significado se ha desplazado: la libertad es la libertad de las empresas para contaminar, la de las grandes tecnolgicas para escapar de cualquier control y la de los polticos para mentir y fomentar la crispacin. Cmo hemos llegado hasta aqu? De qu libertad estamos hablando? Y de qu libertad deberamos hablar? El experimento neoliberal al que se han entregado las lites en las ltimas dcadas ha provocado que los mercados sin regular hayan explotado a los consumidores, los trabajadores y el medioambiente. A su vez, la desigualdad resultante ha propiciado la aparicin de movimientos populistas que piensan que la libertad es ignorar cualquier responsabilidad que tengamos hacia los dems ciudadanos. Ahora la verdadera libertad poltica y econmica est en peligro. Con pluma afiliada y apoyado en el trabajo de filsofos contemporneos, Stiglitz dibuja una nueva manera de considerar el papel del Estado y un modo ms profundo y humano de valorar las libertades y decidir qu hacer cuando la libertad de uno choca con la de su vecino. Tenemos que reinventar nuestros sistemas econmicos y legales y adoptar formas de accin colectiva que incluyan regulaciones e inversiones, si queremos crear una sociedad innovadora en la que todos podamos prosperar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From one of the worlds leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom. We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here? Whose freedom are weand should webe thinking about? In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects Americas current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. Free and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the financial crisis, the opioid crisis, and the crisis of inequality. While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth, wages for most people have stagnated. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. Such failures have fed populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another. As they grow in strength, these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom. As an economic advisor to presidents and as chief economist at the World Bank, Stiglitz has witnessed these profound changes firsthand. As he argues, the failures follow from the elites unshakeable dedication to the neoliberal experiment. Explicitly taking on giants such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, Stiglitz exposes accepted ideas about our political and economic life for what they are: twisted visions that tear at the social fabric while they enrich the very few. The Road to Freedom breaks new ground, showing how economicsincluding recent advances in which Stiglitz has played such an important rolereframes how to think about freedom and the role of the state in a twenty-first century society. Drawing on the work of contemporary philosophers, Stiglitz explains a deeper, more humane way to assess freedomsone that considers with care what to do when one persons freedom conflicts with anothers. We must reimagine our existing economic and legal systems and embrace forms of collective action, including regulation and investment, if we are to create an innovative society in which everyone can flourish. The task could not be more urgent, and Stiglitzs latest book is essential reading for those committed to the American ideal of an economic and political system that delivers well-being, opportunity, and meaningful freedoms for all.
