Siddharth Varadarajan talks to Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Prize winner

Winner of the 2001 Nobel prize for economics,Joseph Stiglitz is a trenchant critic of the “market fundamentalism” of the International Monetary Fund. I caught up with him last week in New Delhi to interview him on some of the ideas in his latest book, Making Globalisation Work (Viking, 2006), including the need for an alternative to the dollar reserve system. We also had a useful discussion on privatisation and land acquisition, topics of great relevance to the debate in India over SEZs and other big industrial projects.