Economics
Stiglitz at Davos Blasts Turkey's Blacklisting of Professors
- More than 1,100 professors investigated after signing letter
- Nobel Prize winner plans to raise issue with Turkish officials
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You can’t become a knowledge economy by going after your brightest minds.
So says Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winner in economics, speaking after Turkey’s highest education authority last week announced an investigation into more than 1,100 academics. They had signed a petition calling on the government to redouble efforts for peace in the southeast, where for months the military has been fighting an insurgency in largely Kurdish cities.