Joseph Stiglitz (born 1943) is an American economist. He won the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, shared with George Akerlof and Michael Spence, for analysis of markets with asymmetric information. He served as chief economist of the World Bank and chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and is a prominent critic of financial deregulation and of globalization's unequal effects. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Rothschild and Stiglitz's 1976 model of adverse selection in insurance markets; Stiglitz shared the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize for analysis of markets with asymmetric information.
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He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979).
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February 9, 1943
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1943-02-09
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At the World Bank, he served as a senior vice-president and the chief economist from 1997 to 2000.
Associated With: Asian Financial Crisis (1997-98), 1997 Asian financial crisis, criticism of the real-economy framing
Other economists, including Joseph Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs, have downplayed the role of the real economy in the crisis compared to the financial markets.
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