Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, ForMemRS, FBA (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor of Jewish descent. He works at Columbia University.

He won the Nobel 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 is a former member, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. He won the Nobel Prize for discovering that some things happen in the economy because some people know more things than others.

He is known for his critical view of the management of globalization, free-market economists (whom he calls "free market fundamentalists"), and some international institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

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Other websites
  josephstiglitz.com
 Joseph E. Stiglitz at Columbia University
 Joseph Stiglitz  committee chair profile at Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University
 Information and the Change in the Paradigm in Economics 2001 lecture at NobelPrize.org
 Profile and Papers at Research Papers in Economics/RePEc
 Publications at the National Bureau of Economic Research

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