2010 Presenters
Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and Chair of Columbia's Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. He was also a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Recognized around the world as a leading economic educator, he has written textbooks that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He founded one of the leading economics journals, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, and his book Globalization and Its Discontents has been translated into 35 languages and has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Other recent books include The Roaring Nineties, Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics with Bruce Greenwald, Fair Trade for All with Andrew Charlton, Making Globalization Work and The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict with Linda Bilmes of Harvard University. In his latest book, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, Stiglitz argues that years of neglect—both benign and otherwise—have led to our economy’s downfall.
LINKS:
Stiglitz's Nobel Prize autobiography
The Huffington Post interviews Stiglitz
Video: Stiglitz appears on Democracy Now!
Review of Freefall from The New York Times
