Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz received the 2001 prize in Economic Sciences. This profile brings together the official award record and attributed background on the economist’s work and career.
Personal and professional profile
- Name
- Joseph E. Stiglitz [1]
- Full name
- Joseph E. Stiglitz [2]
- Birth date
- 1943-02-09 [2]
- Birthplace
- Gary, IN, USA [2]
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Fitzwilliam College; Amherst College; University of Chicago [3]
- Fields / occupation
- non-fiction writer; writer; professor; economist; university teacher; science writer [3]
- Prize
- Economic Sciences · 2001 [2]
- Research recognized
- for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information [2]
- Prize share
- 1/3 [2]
- Affiliation at the award
- Columbia University [2]
- Institutions in career record
- Yale University (1970–1974); Columbia University; Stanford University; University of Oxford (1976–1979); Princeton University (1979–1988); World Bank (1997–2000) [3]
Research, education and career background
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, 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. He is also a former member and chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. He is known for his support for the Georgism public finance theory and for his critical view of the management of globalization, of laissez-faire economists (whom he calls "free-market fundamentalists"), and of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. [4]
In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001 and received the university's highest academic rank (university professor) in 2003. He was the founding chair of the university's Committee on Global Thought. He also chairs the University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute. He was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. In 2009, the President of the United Nations General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, 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 the chair of the international Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, appointed by the French President Sarkozy, 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 the president of the International Economic Association (IEA). He presided over the organization of the IEA triennial world congress held near the Dead Sea in Jordan in June 2014. [4]
In 2011, Stiglitz was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Stiglitz's work focuses on income distribution from a Georgist perspective, asset risk management, corporate governance, and international trade. He is the author of several books, the latest being The Road to Freedom (2024); People, Power, and Profits (2019); The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe (2016); The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them (2015); Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity (2015); and Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth Development and Social Progress (2014). He is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders. According to the Open Syllabus Project, Stiglitz is the fifth most frequently cited author on college syllabi for economics courses. [4]
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Award and academic affiliation
The official Nobel record dates the Economic Sciences award to 2001 and lists Columbia University as the affiliation at the time. [2]
An affiliation attached to an award describes that point in the person’s career; it does not establish a current appointment. [2]
Education and career timeline
Birth date recorded in the official Nobel biography. [2]
Education period at Amherst College ended (background record). [3]
Education period at Massachusetts Institute of Technology began (background record). [3]
Education period at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ended (background record). [3]
Affiliation at Yale University began (background record). [3]
Affiliation at Yale University ended (background record). [3]
Affiliation at University of Oxford began (background record). [3]
Affiliation at University of Oxford ended (background record). [3]
Affiliation at Princeton University began (background record). [3]
Affiliation at Princeton University ended (background record). [3]
Affiliation at World Bank began (background record). [3]
Economic Sciences award announced. [2]
Source-supported connections
Frequently asked questions
When did Joseph E. Stiglitz receive the prize in Economic Sciences?
The official award record gives the year as 2001. [2]
Which institution was Joseph E. Stiglitz affiliated with at the time of the Economic Sciences award?
Columbia University. This is the award-time affiliation. [2]
Joseph E. Stiglitz connection map
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Sources and review dates
- Nobel Prize — official biography and award record ↗
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Reviewed 23 October 2026. Historical dates and award-time affiliations retain their original context. A review date is not an event date. Background sources are identified separately from official records.