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Joseph Stiglitz is a highly-sought motivational speaker and expert covering such topics as economics, politics, sustainability, and international affairs. He is a best-selling author, consultant, media pundit, and thought-leader who has spoken at many conferences around the world where he gives leaders the skills they need to deal with fast, big changes in society, the workplace, and schools.
Joseph Stiglitz is hired to speak at events and conferences where he can give expertise on important global business affairs. He is a Nobel Prize-winning economist and was given the John Bates Clark Award, granted every two years by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. In 1967, he got his Ph.D. from MIT.
In 1968, he graduated from Amherst College. He became a full professor in 1970 at Yale. In 1979, he won the award. He has also given talks at Princeton, Stanford, and MIT, in addition to being the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now a University Professor and Co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University in New York.
He is also the Roosevelt Institute’s Chief Economist. He was the main author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports from 1995, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He also won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for his work on markets with uneven information. In 2011, Stiglitz was named one of the top 100 most powerful people on the planet by the magazine Time.
During the Clinton administration, Joseph Stiglitz was on the Council of Economic Advisers and was also its chairman from 1995 to 1997. He was the World Bank’s Senior Vice President and Chief Economist from 1997 to 2000. In 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy requested him to lead the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress.
He is in charge of an OECD group that is working to improve these ideas right now. He was put in charge of the Commission of Experts on Reform of International Financial & Monetary System by the President of the United Nations General Assembly. That group also gave its report in September 2009. (it was called “The Stiglitz Report”) Since the financial crisis, he has made important contributions to the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which aims to change the field of study so that it can better prepare people to deal with the most important problems of the 21st century.
Stiglitz came up with the basic ideas of “moral hazard” and “adverse selection hazard,” which are now used by both theorists and policy analysts. He also helped start a new field of economics called “The Economics of Information,” which also looks at how different kinds of information affect people. He has made important contributions to macroeconomics & monetary theory, development economics & trade theory, corporate and public finance, theories of industrial organization, rural organization, welfare economics, and theories of the distribution of income and wealth. He has also made important changes to public and corporate finance. In the 1980s, he helped bring R&D economics back into the spotlight.
In the past 15 years, he has written some very popular books that have changed the way people talk about important issues around the world. Joseph Stiglitz’s work has been praised all over the world. More than forty universities, such as Cambridge and Oxford, have given him honorary doctorates. For his work in journalism, he was given the prestigious Loeb Prize in 2010. The Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Books, and the European Literary Prize have all been given to his books.
Joseph Stiglitz is on the boards of several organizations, such as Resources for the Future and the Acumen Fund. His research has helped us learn more about why markets work the way they do and how the government can help make markets work better. Many countries have given Joseph Stiglitz awards, including Colombia, Ecuador, and Korea. Recently added him to the French Legion of Honor (rank of Officier).
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