Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at
Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on
the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and
the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. 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 a former chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. In 2000,
Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on
international development based at Columbia University. Time magazine
has named Stiglitz one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Known
for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Stiglitz's research focuses
on income distribution, climate change, corporate governance, public policy,
macroeconomics and globalization. He is the author of numerous books,
including People, Power, and Profits, Rewriting the Rules
of the American Economy, Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy, Globalization
and Its Discontents Revisited, and The Euro.