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Joseph E. Stiglitz, in full Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, (born February 9, 1943, Gary, Indiana, U.S.), American economist who, with A. Michael Spence and George A. Akerlof, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 for laying the foundations for the theory of markets with asymmetric information.

Joseph E. Stiglitz University Professor, Columbia University (Author photo: Gabriela Plump) Appointments University Professor. Teaching at the Columbia Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ( Department of Economics) and the School of International and Public Affairs Chief Economist of The Roosevelt Institute

Joseph E. Stiglitz Biographical I was born in Gary, Indiana, at the time, a major steel town on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, on February 9, 1943. Both of my parents were born within six miles of Gary, early in the century, and continued to live in the area until 1997. I sometimes thought that my peregrinations made up for their stability.

Joseph E. Stiglitz. Executive Director and Co-founder. Initiative for Policy Dialogue. Professor. Economics Division. Professor. Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing. BA Amherst College, 1964; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967. Joined CBS in 2001.

Joseph E. Stiglitz. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001. Born: 9 February 1943, Gary, IN, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information”. Prize share: 1/3.

Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University, is a former chief economist of the World Bank (1997-2000), chair of the US President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and co-chair of the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices.

In “People, Power, and Profits,” Joseph E. Stiglitz argues that more state involvement in the economy is part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Joseph Stiglitz is an American economist and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics. Stiglitz shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Price as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...