Joseph Stiglitz
- Professor
- Economics Division
- Professor
- Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing
- Executive Director and Co-founder
- Initiative for Policy Dialogue
- Areas of Expertise
- Globalization, Microeconomics
- Contact
- Office: 543 Kravis
- Phone: (212) 8540671
- E-mail: jes322@gsb.columbia.edu
Professor Stiglitz accepted a joint appointment to a chaired professorship at Columbia Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (in the Department of Economics) and the School of International and Public Affairs in the spring of 2001. He was the first Joel M. Stern Faculty Scholar at Columbia Business School from Fall 1999 until Spring 2001. From 1997 to 2000, he served as the World Bank's Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics. Prior to that, he served on President Clinton's economic team as a member of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors from 1993 to 1995 and as its Chairman from 1995 to 1997.
Stiglitz is a renowned scholar and teacher of a new branch of economics that he created, the "Economics of Information." He also helped pioneer such pivotal concepts as theories of adverse selection and moral hazard, which have now become standard tools of policy analysts, as well as economic theorists. Recognized around the world as a leading economic educator, he has written textbooks that have been translated into several dozen languages.
Stiglitz was a Fulbright Scholar and a Tapp Junior Research Fellow at Cambridge University in 1970. He became a fellow of the Econometric Society at the age of 29 and is a member of the National Academy of Science. He is also the recipient of the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years to the American economist under the age of 40 who has made the most significant contributions to the subject. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for the analysis of markets with asymmetric information.
- Education
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BA Amherst College, 1964; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966
- Joined CBS
- 2001
All Activities
Video: Balancing Freedom and Responsibility in the Age of AI
Bizcast: Professor Joseph Stiglitz and The Road to Freedom
Getting Finance for Climate Improvement
Addressing Economic Inequality and Potential Solutions
The Global Tax Devil Is in the Details
Avoiding a K-Shaped Global Recovery
An Open Letter to Joe Biden on International Corporate Taxation
How Biden Can Restore Multilateralism Unilaterally
What Janet Yellen Must Do Now
Priorities for the COVID-19 Economy
Patents vs. the Pandemic
Has Davos Man Changed?
Is Growth Outdated?
Chile: A Progressive Blueprint for Emerging Economies
Three Ways to Fight Fake News
School Honors Joseph Stiglitz With Special Colloquium
Former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz Appointed to a Joint Chaired Professorship at Columbia University
Sanford Weill and Joseph Stiglitz Honored at Columbia Business School's 26th Annual Dinner
Joseph E. Stiglitz of the World Bank to be the first Joel Stern Faculty Scholar at Columbia Business School
The Inflation Red Herring
Internationalizing the Crisis
The Global Tax Devil Is in the Details
Avoiding a K-Shaped Global Recovery
An Open Letter to Joe Biden on International Corporate Taxation
How Biden Can Restore Multilateralism Unilaterally
What Janet Yellen Must Do Now
Priorities for the COVID-19 Economy
Patents vs. the Pandemic
Has Davos Man Changed?
Is Growth Outdated?
The End of Neoliberalism and the Rebirth of History
Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency
From Yellow Vests to the Green New Deal
Beyond GDP
People vs. Money in America’s Midterm Elections
The 2008 Crisis, 10 Years Later
The United States Is At Risk of Losing a Trade War with China
Trump’s Trade Confusion
The Globalization of Our Discontent
Intellectual Property for the 21st-Century Economy
Déjà Voodoo
Learning from Hurricane Harvey
Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing
Trump’s Rogue America
Lessons from the Anti-Globalists
Stagnation in Russia
Bad News for America’s Workers
What America’s Economy Needs Now from Trump
Why Trump?
A Better Economic Plan for Japan
Globalization and Its New Discontents
From Brexit to the Future
Monopoly’s New Era
What’s Wrong with Negative Rates?
The New Generation Gap
How to Stop the Capital Drain in Developing Countries
China’s Bumpy New Normal
The New Geo-Economics
When Inequality Kills
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: It’s a Flawed Deal