| − | '''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. | + | '''Joseph E. Stiglitz ''' (1943 - ) is an American economist of Jewish ancestry. He received a Ph.D. in 1967 from the [[MIT]]. U.S. Federal Judge [[Richard Posner]] called him one of America's top public intellectuals.<ref>[http://home.uchicago.edu/~rposner/publicintellect.htm] "Data for tables in Chapter 5 of Richard A. Posner, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline" where Posner talks about the data he used for his book ''Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline''.</ref><ref>[http://home.uchicago.edu/~rposner/TABLE%20II.pdf] Table II, which is Posner's data for 607 public intellectuals. A PDF search of "Stiglitz" will show he is on Posner's list.</ref> 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.'' [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. |