Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. 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 and a former member and chairman of the (US president’s) Council of Economic Advisers. In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001 and received that university’s highest academic rank (university professor) in 2003. In 2011 Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Known for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Stiglitz’s work focuses on income distribution, risk, corporate governance, public policy, macroeconomics and globalization. He is the author of numerous books, and several bestsellers. His most recent titles are People, Power, and Profits, Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy, Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited, The Euro and Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy.

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Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Development

Paper Conference paper | | Oct 2017

A better set of approaches for the 21st century.

Where Modern Macroeconomics Went Wrong

Paper Grantee paper | | Sep 2017

This paper provides a critique of the DSGE models that have come to dominate macroeconomics during the past quarter-century.

Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing

Article | Aug 1, 2017

Back-room deals on corporate tax reform won’t increase growth

Stiglitz: Bad News Awaits America's Workers

Article | Dec 28, 2016

Campaign promises aside, the policies favored by President-elect Donal Trump are likely to bring more pain than gain to  working-class Americans 

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Project Syndicate features Joseph Stiglitz INET funded research

News Feb 15, 2021

“The Biden administration must put a high enough price on carbon pollution to encourage the scale and urgency of action needed to meet the commitments it has made to Americans and the rest of the world. The future of our planet depends on it” — Nicholas Stern & Joseph Stiglitz, Project Syndicate

YSI 2020 Plenary: New Economic Questions

Young Scholars Initiative Virtual Plenary

YSI Event Plenary YSI | Nov 6–15, 2020

What are the 100 most pertinent economic questions facing our global societ?

Globalization's Discontents

Video | Sep 9, 2020

The promise of globalization is built on a lie, designed to spread risk while concentrating reward.

Pandemic Relief Efforts

with Joseph Stiglitz - 12pm EDT / 9am PDT

Event Webinar | May 14, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust us into a new reality, and any course we set now will have huge and lasting repercussions on public health and the economy.

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Greece, the Sacrificial Lamb

Jul 24, 2015 The New York Times