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'''Joseph E. Stiglitz ''' (1943 - ) is an American economist of Jewish ancestry. 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.
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]
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