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Joseph Stiglitz
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 U.S. Council of…
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Thank you to Amherst College for letting me write about my longtime friend and cherished colleague Ned Phelps. I miss him deeply. www.amherst.edu/news/news_re...
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2026· 12 entries
“We are grateful to Heather Stewart of @theguardian.com for covering our open letter to PM Andy Burnham, urging him to sign up the UK to support the creation of a much-needed International Panel on Inequality www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...”
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“Thank you to Amherst College for letting me write about my longtime friend and cherished colleague Ned Phelps. I miss him deeply. www.amherst.edu/news/news_re...”
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“Thank you to @jonathansperling.bsky.social for his well-written article in @columbiabusiness.bsky.social's Insights about NYC Mayor Mamdani's plan for city grocery stores. My colleague Professor Lori Yue was also interviewed. business.columbia.edu/insights/mam...”
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“A new, inequality-informed approach to pandemic preparedness is both warranted and practical. We explain why. Our article in @nejm.org With Matt Kavanagh, PhD, Monica Geingos, L.L.B., Winnie Byanyima, M.Sc., and Michael G. Marmot, M.B., B.S., M.P.H., Ph.D. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....”
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“It was so nice to speak with @channel4news.bsky.social about the new Trump tariffs.”
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“Was delighted to speak with @ethosfera.bsky.social with my co-author, Maxim Ventura-Bolet, about our recent paper on AI and information distribution. Information is a public good. Who should finance it? Who pays when the ecosystem is polluted? Have a listen. open.spotify.com/episode/5cMY...”
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“Maxim Ventura-Bolet and I were extremely pleased to speak with @ethosfera.bsky.social about our recent paper on AI. The thrust: AI will create a better-informed society only with changes to the incentives governing the information economy. observatoriodemedios.org/joseph-stigl...”
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“It was a great and productive meeting. Many thanks to @janetgornick.bsky.social for her important intervention, along with remarks by Imraan Valodia and Jose Antonio Ocampo. As Janet says, the IPI is taking shape! @icrict.bsky.social”
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“My dear friend and wonderful colleague Ned Phelps died in May. An immense loss to all who knew and loved him, and to the world.”
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“La pauvreté est un choix politique. Tout commence par nos systèmes fiscaux. Dans @lemonde.fr et @theguardian.com, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @jayatighosh.bsky.social et @thomaspiketty.bsky.social, aux côtés de près de 400 personnalités, signent une feuille de route pour l’éradiquer.”
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Yahoo Finance: Joseph Stiglitz says buckle up before the great AI ‘reallocation’ era arrives
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2024· 3 entries
Benzinga.com: Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz Slams Federal Reserve For 'Going Too Far, Too Fast' With Rate Cuts
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CNBC: Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz says Fed raised rates ‘too far, too fast’ — and now needs to cut big
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The Washington Post: Joseph Stiglitz argues for a morally improved capitalism
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2023· 1 entry
Awarded Catalonia International Prize (2023).
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2019· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2019).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from Sciences Po (2019).
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Wrote that "The Green New Deal would stimulate demand, ensuring that all available resources were used; and the transition to the green economy would likely usher in a new boom
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Sydney Peace Prize (2018).
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2017· 2 entries
Contrary to what he wrote earlier, he wrote that the drop in wages in the United States is due to the actions of multinational companies rather than the globalization and the trade account imbalances between countries ca
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Awarded Paul A. Volcker Lifetime Achievement Award for Economic Policy (2017).
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2016· 3 entries
Democracy Now: Joseph Stiglitz to Clinton: Don’t Repeat Obama Mistakes of Supporting TPP, Failed Financial Reform
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Said he believes that the economic situation of the United States is critical: "As the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton showed in their study published in December 2015, life expectancy among middle-age white Ame
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“the cost of keeping the Eurozone together probably exceeds the cost of breaking it up.”
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2015· 4 entries
It was announced that he had been appointed to the British Labour Party's Economic Advisory Committee, convened by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and reporting to Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn, although he reported
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The United Kingdom Labour Party announced that Stiglitz was to sit on its Economic Advisory Committee along with five other world-leading economists
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Awarded honorary degree of HEC Paris (2015).
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Said that the programmer of austerity in Greece had been "an enormous mistake", that the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and the European Commission had "criminal responsibility for causing a major
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2014).
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Awarded Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize (2014).
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2013).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Paris Dauphine University (2013).
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Awarded Global Economy Prize (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Stiglitz described the European austerity plans as a "suicide-pact"
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2011· 4 entries
Stiglitz participated in the "I Foro Social del 15M" organized in Madrid (Spain) expressing his support for the anti-austerity movement in Spain
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Stiglitz participated in the "I Forro Social del 15M" organized in Madrid, expressing his support to the 15M Movement protestors
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Was named by Foreign Policy magazine on its list of top global thinkers
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Stiglitz was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded Gerald Loeb Award (2010).
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Mismeasuring our Lives: Why GDP doesn't add up, and currently serves as co-chair of its successor, the High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress
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Stiglitz acted as an advisor to the Greek government during the Greek debt crisis
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2009· 4 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2009).
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Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Archbishop Desmond Tutu at an awards ceremony at St
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The President of the United Nations General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, appointed Stiglitz as the chairman of the U
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Stiglitz chaired the Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System which was convened by the President of the United Nations General Assembly "to review the workings of the global fi
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Manpower-HEC price (2007).
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Stiglitz explained further:
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the Renmin University of China (2006).
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2004· 1 entry
To Anya Schiffrin, who works at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Titled "Implications of the New Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Risk-Based Capital Standard" where they stated "on the basis of historical experience, the risk to the government from a potential default on GSE debt is effecti
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2001· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information.
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Charles University of Prague (2001).
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Awarded Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2001).
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"for laying the foundations for the theory of markets with asymmetric information"
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2000· 2 entries
Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a think tank on international development based at Columbia University
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Summers successfully petitioned for Stiglitz's removal, supposedly in exchange for World Bank President James Wolfensohn's re-appointment – an exchange that Wolfensohn denies took place
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1999· 1 entry
“s chief economist after using the position for nearly three years to raise pointed questions about the effectiveness of conventional approaches to helping poor countries. In this role, he continued criticism of the International Monetary Fund, and, by implication, the U.S. Treasury Department. In April 2000, in an article for The New Republic, he wrote: They”
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded H. C. Recktenwald Prize in Economics (1997).
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Career landmark: Chief Economist of the World Bank (1997–2000).
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1995· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (1995–1997).
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1993· 1 entry
Serving first as a member during 1993–1995, and was then appointed Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers on June 28, 1995
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1990· 1 entry
And presents a summary of information economics and the theory of markets with imperfect information and imperfect competition, as well as being a critique of both free market and market socialist approaches (see Roemer
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1983· 3 entries
“The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism.”
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“The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.”
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The National Academy of Sciences in 1988, and the American Philosophical Society in 1997
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1979· 1 entry
Won John Bates Clark Medal (1979).
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1973).
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1969).
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1967· 3 entries
Awarded Fulbright Scholarship (1967).
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Stiglitz co-authored one of his first papers with Michael Rothschild for the Journal of Economic Theory in 1970
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Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (1966–1967).
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1966· 1 entry
“simple and concrete models, directed at answering important and relevant questions.”
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1965· 1 entry
And he later won a Tapp Junior Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge which was instrumental in shaping his understanding of Keynes and macroeconomic theory
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1964· 1 entry
Studied at Amherst College, Bachelor of Arts (1964).
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-02-09.
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