Today, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will host a special presentation and discussion at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., of the new book, “Exiting from the Crisis.”

The book is a volume of essays from global trade union leaders and economists on achieving a more just and sustainable model of global economic growth. It is the product of the Global Unions Taskforce on a New Growth Model, a joint project of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) to the OECD, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the Global Union Research Network (GURN). The task force involves more than 30 global trade union economists from a wide array of advanced, emerging and developing countries.

Here is the agenda of the program, which begins at 11 ET:

Introduction—Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO

Presentation—Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia University,

Nobel Prize in Economics, 2001

Task Force Report—John Evans, General Secretary, Trade Union Advisory Committee, OECD

Thomas Palley, Associate, New America Foundation

Andrew Watt, Senior Researcher, ETUI

Kwabena Nyarko Otoo, Director, Labor Research and Policy Institute, Ghana Trade Union Congress

Claire Courteille, Director, Equality Department, ITUC

Response—Sandra Polaski, Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor

Simon Johnson, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Sloan School of Management, MIT

Heather Boushey, Senior Economist, Center for American Progress

Bob Kuttner, Co-Editor, American Prospect

Audience Questions and Comments

 Click here for a link to “Exiting from the Crisis.”