INTERVIEW Joseph E. Stiglitz

I don’t remember the context or the first time I heard ‘globalization’. Perhaps it was around the

publication of Thomas Friedman’s book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree (1999) or a bit earlier. I

also can’t remember when I first encountered it as an economist in the academic discourse. But I

don’t think it had been widely used by academic economists before I published my first book on

globalization in 2002 (Stiglitz, 2002).