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By Eliot Wilson Nobel Prize-winning Joseph Stiglitz’s new book makes a grotesque bogeyman of ‘the right’, and it will have dangerous consequences, writes Eliot Wilson Falsehood, said Jonathan Swift, flies, and the truth comes limping after it. The Dublin cleric would have recognised falsehood in the lazily drawn straw men of the left’s favourite Nobel Prize-winning economist, and their speed and pervasiveness present a genuine threat to London’s prosperity. Joseph Stiglitz defended his doctoral thesis nearly 60 years ago now, and it is nearly a quarter of a century since he resigned, not wholl…

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