Joseph Stiglitz und Lars Feld: U.S. - European Relations in Doldrums - A Biden Administration as New Hope

Despite the pandemic, protest marches, and numerous presidential scandals: Once again, it was the economy that, according to all the polls, was the most important, decisive election issue that propelled Americans to vote this past November. It was in this area that the surprisingly strong incumbent Donald Trump held one of his few trump cards in respect to voter popularity. The next President of the United States, Joe Biden, must therefore deliver – and turn his simple slogan “Build Back Better” into a concrete program for a sustainable, long-term reconstruction of the US economy. 

In this virtual event organized by the Carl-Schurz-Haus in Freiburg, two of the world’s leading economists will be discussing what Americans and the rest of the world may expect from Joe Biden in terms of economic policy.

an American economist, received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 2001. He is also a former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to US president Bill Clinton. From 1997 to 2000, Stiglitz served as Chief Economist of the World Bank. He is currently Professor and Chairman of the Committee on Global Thought at New York’s Columbia University, following positions at Princeton, Stanford and MIT. He holds more than forty honorary degrees.

a German economist, has held the Chair of Economic Policy and Constitutional Economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg since 2010. He currently serves as the director of the Walter Eucken Institute. Since 2011, he has been a member of the German Council of Economic Experts. His main research interests are economic policy, finance, new political economy, and economic analysis of law.