About
Joseph E. Stiglitz, born February 9, 1943, in Gary, Indiana, is a world-renowned American economist. He earned his PhD from MIT in 1967 and has taught at Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Columbia. He served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Bill Clinton and as chief economist of the World Bank. In 2001, he received the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on markets with asymmetric information. Author of numerous influential books, he is a leading critic of globalization and inequality.
* 1943-02-09
Major works
- Globalization and Its Discontents (2002)non-fiction
- The Price of Inequality (2012)non-fiction
- People, Power, and Profits (2019)non-fiction
- The Road to Freedom (2024)non-fiction
Key milestones
- 1979Awarded the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association.
- 2001Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, shared with George Akerlof and Michael Spence.
- 2011Named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World.
Themes
Asymmetric informationEconomic inequalityGlobalizationEconomic policySocial justice
Sources: business.columbia.edu · nobelprize.org · britannica.com