--- product_id: 634453960 title: "W. W. Norton & Company The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society" price: "43933CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/634453960-w-w-norton-and-company-the-road-to-freedom-economics store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Nobel Prize-winning author Hardcover durability Published April 2024 W. W. Norton & Company The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society **Price:** 43933CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Unlock the future of freedom with the economist who redefines the rules. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** W. W. 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Stiglitz, a trusted voice in global economics. - • **Deep Societal Impact:** Dissects the real meaning of freedom in today’s economic and political landscape. - • **Hardcover Excellence:** Premium binding for lasting shelf presence and professional appeal. - • **Cutting-Edge Insights:** Fresh 2024 publication with the latest economic critiques and solutions. - • **Essential for Thought Leaders:** A must-read for professionals shaping policy, business, and social justice. ## Overview The Road to Freedom by Joseph E. Stiglitz is a 2024 hardcover release that challenges prevailing economic ideologies, exposing how 'free markets' have fueled inequality and crises. Combining Nobel-winning expertise with contemporary philosophy, it offers a visionary roadmap for rebuilding a fairer, more innovative society. Essential reading for professionals committed to meaningful economic and political reform. ## Description 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 we--and should we--be thinking about? In The Road to Freedom , Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America's 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 economics--including recent advances in which Stiglitz has played such an important role--reframes 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 freedoms--one that considers with care what to do when one person's freedom conflicts with another's. 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 Stiglitz's 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. Review: Freedom from financial/economic slavery? - Joseph Stiglitz stands out from the ruck of economists insofar as he is prepared to call out private rent seeking as contributing to the growing inequality that we allow to accompany material progress. Is this really freedom? Stiglitz's view of private property doesn't align at all with those owners of real estate who consider they have no ongoing contribution to make for their holdings. "The Road to Freedom" is a necessary read if we want to escape from the prisoner's dilemma "in which people would be better off if they could only cooperate". Maybe economic rent, instead of taxing our earnings and purchases, is "The Road to Freedom"? Review: Economics leicht gemacht - Tolles Buch von einem Top Ökonomen mit einfachen Erklärungen für Jedermann. Man muss wissen, dass er eher US amerikanischen Demokraten nahesteht aber auch viele vernünftige Republikaner werden seine Thesen teilen. ## Features - Binding: hardcover - Language: english - Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company - Brand: W. W. Norton & Company - Publication date: 2024-04-23T00:00:01Z ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #118,400 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #196 in Theory & Philosophy of Economics #412 in Specific Topics in Politics & Government #1,609 in Business Processes & Infrastructure | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 210 Reviews | ## Images ![W. W. Norton & Company The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71dC6IqoVDL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Freedom from financial/economic slavery? *by B***H on 26 March 2025* Joseph Stiglitz stands out from the ruck of economists insofar as he is prepared to call out private rent seeking as contributing to the growing inequality that we allow to accompany material progress. Is this really freedom? Stiglitz's view of private property doesn't align at all with those owners of real estate who consider they have no ongoing contribution to make for their holdings. "The Road to Freedom" is a necessary read if we want to escape from the prisoner's dilemma "in which people would be better off if they could only cooperate". Maybe economic rent, instead of taxing our earnings and purchases, is "The Road to Freedom"? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Economics leicht gemacht *by M***0 on 13 October 2025* Tolles Buch von einem Top Ökonomen mit einfachen Erklärungen für Jedermann. Man muss wissen, dass er eher US amerikanischen Demokraten nahesteht aber auch viele vernünftige Republikaner werden seine Thesen teilen. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very good book *by D***S on 23 July 2025* I am on the older side and have been a professor most of my life, not in political science, but have read fairly widely in the area. I very much appreciated this book. I learned lots from it. 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