Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Eugene Stiglitz was an American economist, public policy analyst, and professor at Columbia University. He is the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics and the 1979 John Bates Clark Prize. He is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers. He has made significant contributions in the fields of information economics and other fields. He is one of the important members of the emerging Keynesian school of economics and is famous for his support of the Georgist public finance theory. He holds critical views on the phenomenon of globalization, scholars who advocate laissez-faire economic policies, and international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.