For Immediate Release

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Titans of Economics Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty on ​ COVID-19, U.S. Elections, Global Insecurities and Inequality

This virtual transatlantic conversation on Sept. 10, 2020 is a preview for the inaugural Festival ​ du Monde NYC with Columbia-Maison Française, March 12-13, 2021. ​ ​ ​ ​

New York, N.Y. (Sept. 1, 2020) – Columbia University’s Maison Française and Columbia ​ ​ ​ ​ Global Centers | Paris will host a seminal public forum on new economics, inequalities and ​ politics featuring influential economists Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty, together with Le ​ Monde, one of the most important and widely read newspapers in the world. Their conversation ​ ​ ​ will focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and global economic insecurities, racial and class disparities, the weakening of democracy, and the U.S. presidential election, while exploring the implications of these converging crises and opportunities for change.

WHAT: Turning Points: Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty in Dialogue ​

WHEN: Sept. 10, 1:00-2:15 pm EST (New York) | 7:00-8:15 pm GMT+2 (Paris) ​ ​

WHERE: Register HERE to participate in the webinar. Simulcast livestreaming will be available ​ ​ via Facebook Live and YouTube in English; Le Monde and Zoom in French. Follow the ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ conversation on Twitter at @Columbia_MF, @CGCParisCenter, and @lemondefr.

WHO: Economists Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate, and Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Twenty-First Century and Capital and Ideology; renowned French journalist Sylvie Kauffmann ​ ​ ​ ​ of Le Monde will moderate in English. ​ ​ ​

NOTE: This event is also co-sponsored at Columbia by the Institute for Ideas & Imagination, ​ the School of Journalism, the Department of Economics Program for Economic Research, the Alliance Program, the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, the European Institute, the Committee on Global Thought, SIPA, and Columbia University Libraries.

The event is free and open to the public and members of the news media. A 15-20 minute Q&A ​ session will invite questions, to be selected from here beginning two hours before the event and ​ ​ ​ from the Zoom chat line during the live conversation. Journalists may submit questions at [email protected]. The filmed event will be available post-event at ​ ​ ​ www.maisonfrancaise.org. Join the discussion with social media tags: #StiglitzPikettyLive ​ ​ ​ #inequality. ###