Faculty : Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He also holds a part-time appointment at the University of Manchester as Chair of the Management Board and Director of Graduate Summer Programs at the Brooks World Poverty Institute. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information.
Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000.
His book, Globalization and Its Discontents, was translated into 35 languages and has sold more than one million copies worldwide. His newest book, Making Globalization Work, was published by W.W. Norton in September, 2006.
Representative Publications:
2006. Making Globalization Work. New York: W.W. Norton.
2005. Fair Trade For All. With Andrew Charlton, New York: Oxford University Press.
2003. Towards a New Paradigm for Monetary Policy. With Bruce Greenwald. London: Cambridge University Press.
2003. The Roaring Nineties. Washington, DC: W.W. Norton & Company.
2002. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton.
2002. "Information and the Change in the Paradigm in Economics," abbreviated version of Nobel lecture, American Economic Review. 92(3): 460-501.
For more papers by Professor Stiglitz, please visit his website at www.josephstiglitz.com. For more information on the Nobel Prize in Economics, please visit www.nobelprize.org.
