U.K. Labour Names Stiglitz, Piketty to Economic Advisory Panel

Nobel Prize-winer Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty, the author of the bestselling “Capital in the 21st Century,” will serve on a panel of advisers to the U.K. Labour Party as it seeks to bolster its economic credibility.

They’ll be joined by David Blanchflower, a former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, Mariana Mazzucato of Sussex University and Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ann Pettifor of City University in London, the main opposition party said in an e-mailed statement Sunday as it began its annual conference.