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Joseph E. Stiglitz
Finance & Economics
American New Keynesian economist, Nobel laureate and Columbia professor known for policy analysis, criticism of globalization and international financial institutions, and leadership in development debates.
Biography
Joseph E. Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, public policy analyst, political activist, and professor at Columbia University. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers.
In 2000 Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and has been a Columbia faculty member since 2001, receiving the university professor rank in 2003 and founding the Committee on Global Thought. He chairs the University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute, has been a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, chaired the U.N. Commission on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System in 2009, and led the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress; he served as president of the International Economic Association from 2011 to 2014. His work focuses on income distribution, asset risk management, corporate governance, and international trade.
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Books by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Globalization and Its Discontents
The Open Library record for this edition lists the book as lii, 472 pages.