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Professor Joseph Stiglitz FBA

Economics of information, economics of uncertainty, risk and agriculture, financial markets, growth and capital theory, natural resources, theory of market structure R&D, macroeconomics, monetary economics, international economics, development, distribution of income and wealth, welfare economics, comparative economic systems/organization theory, political economy, theory of taxation/public finance, theory of public expenditures

Elected 1993

Fellow type
Corresponding Fellow
Year elected
1993
Sections
Economics and Economic History
Website
http://www.josephstiglitz.com/

Current post

University Professor, Finance and Economics Faculty, Columbia University; Founder and President, Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) ; Co-Chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ; Chief Economist of The Roosevelt Institute

Past appointments

World Bank Senior Vice President and Chief Economist

1997 - 2000

Council of Economic Advisers (Member of Cabinet) Chairman

1995 - 1997

Publications

People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent

Joseph Stiglitz FBA - Published in 2019 by W.W. Norton, Allen Lane / Penguin

Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump

Joseph Stiglitz FBA - Published in 2017 by W.W. Norton, Allen Lane / Penguin

The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

Joseph Stiglitz FBA - Published in 2016 by W.W. Norton, Allen Lane / Penguin

Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity

Joseph Stiglitz FBA - Published in 2015 by W.W. Norton

The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them

Joseph Stiglitz FBA - Published in 2015 by W.W. Norton, Penguin

Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress

Joseph Stiglitz FBA - Published in 2014 by Columbia University Press

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