Event

Sanjaya Lall Fund Lecture 2023: "Freedom and Liberty: Perspectives from 21st Century Economics"

Date
3 May 2023
Time
16:30 UK time
Speakers
Prof Joseph Stiglitz
Where
Mathematical Institute, L1 Lecture Theatre or Online, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Audience
Public
Cost
FREE
Booking
Required
PROFESSOR JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
DISTINGUISHED SANJAYA LALL VISITING FELLOW
University Professor at Columbia Univeristy

Chief Economist of The Roosevelt Institute
Co-founder and President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)
Co-Chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.


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. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former chair 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. In 2011 Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as 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, most recently, People, Power, and Profits, Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy, and Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited.