economy

GROWTH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

By Joseph Stiglitz

Under rightwing leadership, the economic situation of most Americans has worsened in the last seven years. Whoever seeks a sound strategy for more growth and social justice must elect democrats

[Joseph Stiglitz teaches at Columbia University in New York and is the winner of a Nobel Prize for economics. This commentary published in: The Financial Times of Germany, 8/27/2008 is translated from the German on the World Wide Web, http://www.ftd.de/meinung/kommentare/406175.html?mode=print.]

I've seen an increasing number of articles in major newspapers, as of late, about searching for jobs, the mistakes you can make in a job search, and advice about why you should not do anything that might hurt your ability to find a job, such as writing about your beliefs online or burning bridges. Looking at those lists, I can say that I've done quite a few things that they advise against and I do believe it has hurt me from time to time when job hunting. Nevertheless, I think the advice much of the advice is largely propaganda designed to assert the authority of the employer class.