The Pope and Stiglitz together "for another look at the …

The pope received the economist Joseph Stiglitz at the Vatican. The economist attended the meeting with his colleague Robert Johnson and both pledged to work with Francisto to impose on "another look at the global economy".

The works of Stiglitz and Johnson will be presented with the Scholas Occurrentes Pontifical Foundation. The goal is to "make the youth voice heard within the economic profession" and seek answers to the growing inequality and despair in the world of today, the world, and the world. problems caused by globalization and damage to the environment.

Thus, a private meeting that took place this weekend was agreed. Johnson, president of the Institute of New Economic Thought, and Stiglitz, Nobel economics and former chief economist of the World Bank, stressed the need to promote "a social economy focused on the world," turned towards the future by the voice of young people.

The pope said that "it is essential to work in an alternative education that does not pay tribute to money, we must develop programs and studies around the concept of a circular economy that contributes to a conscious education of the limits of the environment! " return to the environment what is taken ".

Stiglitz and Johnson have proposed to Scholas to write a series of papers to be drafted by the Commission on the Transformation of the World Economy, at the initiative of Nobel laureate Michael Pence, "recognizing the need to create new paradigms and the most prosperous and sustainable economy in the world ".

The directors of Scholas present at the meeting, José María del Corral and Enrique Palmeyro, were in charge of organizing at the Vatican an upcoming meeting of economists with young people from different countries to initiate an exchange on the situation and the resulting concerns. young people, they feel about it. Stiglitz expressed his deep interest in working with Scholas in these discussions and in the changes brought about by globalization in societies.