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“With the return of Donald Trump, Europe can no longer count on the United States”

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winner in economics, during the economic forum in Cernobbio, Italy, September 2, 2022. PIER MARCO TACCA/GETTY IMAGES

Nobel Prize winner in economics 2001, famous for his work on inequalities, Joseph Stiglitz warns Europeans. Faced with the protectionism of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, they must prepare to take retaliatory trade measures. In his new work, The Roads of Freedom (The links that liberate, 354 pages, 24.90 euros), the American economist explains that, in the United States as elsewhere, the deregulations and tax cuts promised by the radical rights in the name of freedom will, in truth, , reduce the freedom of the greatest number, for the benefit of the richest.

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