Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz received his PhD from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contri- bution to the field. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, MIT and was the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Chair of Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric informa- tion, and he was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chair- man from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. In 2008, he was appointed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to chair a Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Economic Progress.
Stiglitz holds a part-time appointment at the University of Manchester as Chair of the Management Board and Director of Graduate Summer Programs at the Brooks World Poverty Institute. He serves on numerous other boards, including Economists for Peace and Security’s Board of Trustees, and the Board of Governors of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.
His most recent book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, with Linda Bilmes of Harvard University, was published in March 2008 by Norton and Penguin/ Allen Lane.
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« We live in a global economy and we need a reform of the global reserve system »
Joseph Stiglitz’s speech at the conference « The Financial Crisis, the US Economy, and International Security in the New Administration », New York, 14th November 2008.
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Un problème structurel qui appelle une réponse globale
L’intervention de Joseph Stiglitz lors de la conférence « The Financial Crisis, the US Economy, and International Security in the New Administration », New York, 14 novembre 2008.
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Echange avec le public
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Debate with the audience
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Marshall Auerbach, Marcellus Andrews
