Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, ForMemRS,[2] FBA (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist 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 and is a former member and chairman of the (US president's) Council of Economic Advisers.[3][4] He is known for his critical view of the management of globalization, laissez-faire economists (whom he calls "free market fundamentalists"), and some international institutions like 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, received that 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 is 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.[5] He served as chair of the international Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, appointed by President Sarkozy of France, which issued its report in 2010, Mismeasuring our Lives: Why GDP doesn't add up,[6] 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 president of the International Economic Association (IEA).[7] He presided over the organization of the IEA triennial world congress held near the Dead Sea in Jordan in June 2014.[8]
Stiglitz has received more than 40 honorary degrees, including from Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities and been decorated by several governments including Korea, Colombia, Ecuador, and most recently France, where he was appointed a member of the Legion of Honor, order Officer.
Stiglitz has received more than 40 honorary degrees, including from Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge Universities and been decorated by several governments including Korea, Columbia, and Ecuador, and most recently France, where he was appointed a member of the Legion of Honor, order Officer.
Articles
Inequality is Now Killing Middle AmericaHow To Fix Inequality
Tax Avoidance Fuels Global Inequality
The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade
Wealth and Income Distribution: New Theories Needed for a New Era
and many more @ http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/articles
and more @ http://www.theguardian.com/profile/josephstiglitz
Videos
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz on "Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy"
Joseph Stiglitz: It's Time to Get Radical on Inequality
Joseph Stiglitz (2014) - Why Capitalism is Failing
Joseph Stiglitz: The Great Divide
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Let's Stop Subsidizing Tax Dodgers
and many more @ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joseph+stiglitz
Books
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Globalization and Its Discontents
and many more @ http://www.amazon.com/josephstiglitz
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