Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (* 9 February 1943 in Gary, Indiana) is an US-American economist. For its work over the relationship of information and markets he received 2001 together with George A. Akerlof and Michael Spence the price of the Swedish realm bank for economic science in memories of Alfred Nobel.

Life

Stiglitz studied among other things at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (WITH) and in Cambridge. In Yale he became with 26 years a professor for economics. Stiglitz was from 1993 to 1999 economic advisers of Bill Clinton and from 1997 to 2000 a chief economist of the World Bank, which quit to him due to its criticism at it. Became it admits of a broader public by its book the shade of the globalization, a sharp criticism at the policy of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Stiglitz is considered also as a critic of the economic policy of the US Government under George W. Bush.

Stiglitz was a professor in Yale, Princeton, Oxford and Stanford. In the year 2000 he became a professor for economics at the University of Stanford, the USA, and senior fellow at the Brookings institution. Today he teaches at the Columbia university in the north Manhattans.

As a prominent researcher in the it became also admits as an author the book Whither (Where ), in which he states theories in understandable way for failing socialism in Eastern Europe, for the role of the asymmetrical information in the markets as well as to false acceptance about the meaning of the free market in a capitalistic free-market economy.

In its current work the Roaring Nineties, which Stiglitz almost exclusively to a stocktaking and a critical argument of the US economy (e.g. Enron and CO.) is limited, it recommends national interferences into the market happening. In addition, Stiglitz suggested related to the German national economy recently national demand politics.

See also

• Globalization criticism

Works

• Financial science. with Bruno of beautiful fields, Oldenbourg 1989, ISBN 3486212249
• Political economy. Oldenbourg 1999, ISBN 3486233793
• The shade of the globalization. Goldmann 2002, ISBN 3442152844
• The Roaring Nineties. Settler 2004, ISBN 3886808076

Related links

• Stiglitz homepage
• World bank: speeches and essay OF Joseph Stiglitz
• http://www.attac-austria.org/infos/observer_worldbank.php
• The time: "And you call a - the IWF promised prosperity - and brought poverty: Joseph Stiglitz in the discussion
• http://www.attac.de/saarbruecken/buchladen/stiglitz.html
• MONITOR - interview with Joseph Stiglitz, vice president of the World Bank
• The world is not a balance - interview with Joseph Stiglitz
• Translation from distribution-political text of Orszag and Stiglitz as a basis for the criticism of the German labor policy

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