The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001
Awarded on: 2001-10-10
"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
Affiliations:
- Columbia University – New York, NY, USA
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Born: 1943-02-09 in Gary, IN, USA
Gender: male
Field: American economist (born 1943)
Biography
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz 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 US Council of Economic Advisers. He is known for his support for the Georgist public finance theory and for his critical view of the management of globalization, of laissez-faire economists, and of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.