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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.
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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]]. 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.  
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