Joseph Stiglitz advised Bolivia’s president two years ago on possibilities for the country’s lithium reserves, but the politics of the situation have since changed. 

Mauricio Cárdenas praises the nomination of Adriana Kugler, a Colombian-American economist who could become the first Latina to serve on the Fed’s Board of Governors.

Joseph Stiglitz commented in the runup to this year’s G7 summit in Hiroshima. 

Ester Fuchs is quoted in an obituary for her sometime debate adversary, whom she calls “a lovable, gifted, intellectual puzzle who never stopped thinking or caring about New York City."

The Spanish region's president cited the Columbia and SIPA economist for “teach[ing] us how to build a fairer, more prosperous, greener, more feminist, and thus freer world from the economy.” 

Anne Nelson comments at a recent UNESCO panel that she moderated: "As the attacks on journalists continue to be agile, so too must be our response to those attacks."

Arvind Panagariya remembers the economist Padma Desai, a longtime member of Columbia’s economics faculty who died on April 28: She was “a trailblazer in a world dominated by men.”

“Women often develop their own mechanisms for dealing with” discrimination and sexual harassment at work,” observes Savita Bailur. “But with gender-sensitive design, they really shouldn’t have to.”