Stiglitz on DVD

I’m not a huge fan of the talking-head video as a way of imparting information:

I find that old-fashioned text can nearly always impart much richer information

much more quickly. On the other hand, some talking heads are better than others,

and Joe Stiglitz has an engaging and eminently watchable rhetorical

style, which helps a lot.

So for those of us who have neither the time nor the money nor the inclination

nor the qualifications to sign up for his classes at Columbia, First Run Features

has helpfully provided us with a two-DVD

set of Joe Stiglitz’s greatest hits, called "Where

is the World Going, Mr. Stiglitz?". Excerpts can be found at the film’s