Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz is the author of Making Globalization Work; Globalization and Its Discontents; and The Three Trillion Dollar War with Linda Bilmes.  He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

Jim Newton is editor-at-large of the Los Angeles Times. A 20-year veteran of the Times, he has worked as a reporter, editor and bureau chief and has covered, among other beats, the LAPD, the administration of Mayor Richard Riordan, federal law enforcement and state and local politics.  He was part of the Los Angeles Times’ coverage of the Los Angeles riots in 1992 and the earthquake of 1994, both of which were awarded Pulitzer Prizes to the staff.  Also an author, Mr. Newton wrote Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made, a critically acclaimed best-selling biography of the former chief justice and California governor. Mr. Newton is a Senior Fellow with UCLA’s School of Public Affairs. He formerly served as a John Jacobs Fellow at U.C. Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies from 2003 – 2004.