To: Hillary Rodham Clinton, The next president of the United States
Appoint Joseph E. Stiglitz as Director of the National Economic Council
"I respectfully request that the next president of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton appoint Joseph E. Stiglitz as Director of the National Economic Council.
Your speech at the DNC, promised, as the first woman president of the United States, to work together with all Americans ("We'll fix it together") to fix the substantial inequality among Americans ("There's too much inequality"). Joseph E. Stiglitz (2001 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute) proposes to fight inequality in America by changing the fundamental structure of its economy to offer freedom from exploitation instead of freedom from regulation. Comparing your "Economic Plan for America" vs J. E. Stiglitz' "Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy" reveals commonalities in policy recommendations and great potential for fruitful partnership."
Why is this important?
Joseph E. Stiglitz (2001 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute) has recently published a book entitled "Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy" which proposes to fight inequality by changing the fundamental structure of the American economy to offer freedom from exploitation instead of freedom from regulation. This book grew out of a collaborative report (Rewriting the Rules: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity) from the Roosevelt Institute in consultation with labor officials, academics, congressional staff members, advocates from Color of Change, Naral and the Black Civic Engagement Fund. The report and book propose 37 policy recommendations including rewriting laws of lending practices, postal bank, a public option for mortgages, taxing corporations on global income, enacting financial-transaction taxes, strengthening the right of collective bargaining, higher living wages, gender and racial pay equality, affordable child care, public spending for public goods via break-even enterprises (schools, housing, roads, broadband, high-speed rail, smart grid, green buildings), Medicare open to all, expansion of Social Security via voluntary public investment accounts, etc (ref 1). J. E. Stitglitz has also published a six-piece analysis of the TPP entitled "Tricks of the Trade Deal: Six Big Problems with the Trans-Pacific Partnership" (ref 2).
(1) http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/magazine/could-hillary-clinton-become-the-champion-of-the-99-percent.html?_r=0
(2) http://rooseveltinstitute.org/tricks-trade-deal-six-big-problems-trans-pacific-partnership/