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 | Joseph Stiglitz Nobel Laureate; University Professor Columbia University Economic Power Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and University Professor at Columbia University. A graduate of Amherst College and MIT, Stiglitz has taught at Oxford, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, and Columbia, where he is currently the Chair of the Committee on Global Thought and co-founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue. World-renowned as a leading economic theorist and educator, Stiglitz has served on several government committees and councils as an economic advisor. During the Clinton administration, he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, which he chaired from 1995 to 1997. In 1997, he became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank, a position he held until 2000. In 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy appointed Stiglitz to chair the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Economic Progress. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001 for his analyses of markets with asymmetrical information and was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the author of several books, including Globalization and its Discontents and (with Linda J. Bilmes) The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict and is the founder of one of the leading economic journals, The Journal of Economic Perspectives. |
