Around the World with Joseph Stiglitz
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 7pm

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and the film's director Jacques Sarasin in person for a post-screening Q&A!

There’s probably no more abused word in the English language right now than globalization. It can mean a bright future for us all, the end of the world as we know it—or both. In Jacques Sarasin’s new documentary, Columbia University professor and Nobel Laureate in Economics Joseph Stiglitz ruminates on the perils and promises of the increasingly international economy, beginning in his hometown of Gary, Ind., where Inland Steel was sold to an Indian conglomerate. Stiglitz points out the supreme irony: Gary’s mayor, Rudy Clay, has now gone to China in the hope of finding investment for his devastated city, trying to create jobs for those who lost their’s when the U.S. steel industry was undercut by cheaper prices in Korea. Traveling the world to interview such wide-ranging figures as the president of Ecuador, African tribesmen, South American oil workers, angry farmers in India and the former president of Botswana, Stiglitz examines the great paradox of our times: how globalization, such a boon to some countries, has proved so disastrous for others.

Around the World with Joseph Stiglitz
Jacques Sarasin, France, 2008; 87m