Thursday October 8 — 4:30 PM
Joseph Stiglitz is an American economist, public policy analyst, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and is a former member and chairman of the (US president's) Council of Economic Advisers. In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He was the founding chair of the Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He also chairs the University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute and is member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. In 2009, the President of the United Nations General Assembly appointed Stiglitz as the chairman of the U.N. Commission on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, where he oversaw suggested proposals and commissioned a report on reforming the international monetary and financial system. He served as chair of the international Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, appointed by President Sarkozy of France, which issued its report in 2010, "Mismeasuring our Lives: Why GDP doesn't add up", and currently serves as co-chair of its successor, the High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. From 2011 to 2014, Stiglitz was president of the International Economic Association (IEA). His latest book, “People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent”, was published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2019 (Italian edition: Einaudi, 2020). …...more
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