| − | '''Joseph E. Stiglitz ''' (born 1943) is an American economist. He received a Ph.D. in 1967 from the [[MIT]]. Stiglitz is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in [[Economic]] Sciences 2001 (The Bank of Sweden Prize). He shared the Prize with George A. Akerlof and A. Michael Spence. | + | '''Joseph E. Stiglitz ''' (born 1943) is an American economist. He received a Ph.D. in 1967 from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. Stiglitz is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in [[Economic]] Sciences 2001 (The Bank of Sweden Prize). He shared the Prize with George A. Akerlof and A. Michael Spence. |
| − | Stiglitz main fields in economics are Macroeconomics and Public Economics. ''Stiglitz has made seminal and fundamental contributions to every subfield of economic theory – microeconomics, macroeconomics, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, financial economics and development economics. He has published more than 300 papers, as well as a dozen books, in a 35-year career.'' [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/10/josephStiglitz_nobel_2001.html] Some of his books are: Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development, Making Globalization Work, The Roaring Nineties, Globalization and Its Discontents, Whither Socialism?, etc. | + | Stiglitz main fields in economics are Macroeconomics and Public Economics. ''Stiglitz has made seminal and fundamental contributions to every subfield of economic theory – microeconomics, macroeconomics, industrial organization, international economics, labor economics, financial economics and development economics. He has published more than 300 papers, as well as a dozen books, in a 35-year career.'' <ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/01/10/josephStiglitz_nobel_2001.html</ref> Some of his books are: Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development, Making Globalization Work, The Roaring Nineties, Globalization and Its Discontents, Whither Socialism?, etc. |
| − | {{cquote|A US court recently ruled that veterans’ rights have been violated... Remarkably, the Obama administration claims that veterans’ right to appeal to the courts should be restricted!... Al-Qaeda, while not conquered, no longer appears to be the threat that loomed so large in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. But the price paid in getting to this point, in the US and elsewhere, has been enormous - and mostly avoidable. The legacy will be with us for a long time. It pays to think before acting. | + | {{cquote|A US court recently ruled that veterans’ rights have been violated... Remarkably, the Obama administration claims that veterans’ right to appeal to the courts should be restricted!... Al-Qaeda, while not conquered, no longer appears to be the threat that loomed so large in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. But the price paid in getting to this point, in the US and elsewhere, has been enormous - and mostly avoidable. The legacy will be with us for a long time. It pays to think before acting.<ref>http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Opinion&title=The-price-of-9/11&id=37685<ref> |