Joseph E. Stiglitz

About the author

Joseph E. Stiglitz, born in 1943 in Gary, Indiana, is one of the most influential economists of his generation — a Nobel laureate (2001) and John Bates Clark Medal winner whose work reshaped how policymakers think about markets and inequality. A New Keynesian economist and professor at Columbia University, he served as chief economist of the World Bank and chairman of the U.

S. Council of Economic Advisers. He is a sharp critic of laissez-faire orthodoxy and international institutions like the IMF, and founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue in 2000 to advance research on international development.