Joseph Stiglitz

Described as

American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Other names

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Joseph Eugene Stiglitz

Born

February 9, 1943 · 5 references

Born in

Gary · 2 references

Name at birth

Joseph Eugene Stiglitz

Citizen of

United States · 3 references

Occupation

economist · 2 references; university teacher · 2 references; science writer; non-fiction writer; professor · 3 references; critic; writer · 3 references

Positions held

Chief Economist of the World Bank (1997–2000); Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (1995–1997) · 1 reference; advisory board

Political party

Democratic Party

Worked for

University of Oxford (1976–1979); Princeton University (1979–1988); University of Manchester; Stanford University; World Bank (1997–2000); Yale University (1970–1974); Columbia University

Education

Fitzwilliam College; Amherst College (–1964); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966–1967); University of Chicago

Member of

Royal Society of London (2009–) · 2 references; National Academy of Sciences (1988–) · 2 references; European Academy of Sciences and Arts · 1 reference; Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2003–) · 1 reference; American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1983–) · 1 reference; Russian Academy of Sciences (2003–) · 1 reference; American Philosophical Society (1998–) · 1 reference; Club of Rome; Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences (2012–) · 2 references; Econometric Society (1973–) · 1 reference

Awards

Fulbright Scholarship (1967) · 1 reference; Guggenheim Fellowship (1969) · 1 reference; Fellow of the Econometric Society (1973) · 1 reference; John Bates Clark Medal (1979) · 1 reference; H. C. Recktenwald Prize in Economics (1997) · 1 reference; honorary doctor of the Charles University of Prague (2001) · 1 reference; Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2001) · 1 reference; Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain (2003); Manpower-HEC price (2007) · 1 reference; Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2009) · 1 reference; Gerald Loeb Award (2010) · 1 reference; honorary doctor of the Renmin University of China (2006) · 1 reference; Global Economy Prize (2013) · 3 references; honorary doctor of Paris Dauphine University (2013) · 1 reference; Officer of the Legion of Honour (2013) · 1 reference

Field

economics; screening

Spouse

Anya Schiffrin (2004–)

Lived in

Gary; Indiana

Website

https://business.columbia.edu/stiglitz

Wikipedias with a page

86

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Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of 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. He is also a former member and chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. He is known for his support for the Georgism public finance theory and for his critical view of the management of globalization, of laissez-faire economists (whom he calls "free-market fundamentalists"), and of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001 and received the university's highest academic rank (university professor) in 2003. He was the founding chair of the university's Committee on Global Thought. He also chairs the University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute. He was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. In 2009, the President of the United Nations General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, appointed Stiglitz as the chairman of the U.N. Commission on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, where he oversaw suggested proposals and commissioned a report on reforming the international monetary and financial system. He served as the chair of the international Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, appointed by the French President Sarkozy, which issued its report in 2010, Mismeasuring our Lives: Why GDP doesn't add up, and currently serves as co-chair of its successor, the High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. From 2011 to 2014, Stiglitz was the president of the International Economic Association (IEA). He presided over the organization of the IEA triennial world congress held near the Dead Sea in Jordan in June 2014.
In 2011, Stiglitz was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Stiglitz's work focuses on income distribution from a Georgist perspective, asset risk management, corporate governance, and international trade. He is the author of several books, the latest being The Road to Freedom (2024); People, Power, and Profits (2019); The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe (2016); The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them (2015); Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity (2015); and Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth Development and Social Progress (2014). He is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Stiglitz is the fifth most frequently cited author on college syllabi for economics courses.

Born, in its opening lines

February 9, 1943

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