Sanjaya Lall Fund Lecture 2023: "Freedom and Liberty: Perspectives from 21st Century Economics"
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.
Date:
3 May 2023, 17:30
Venue:
Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details:
L1 Lecture Theatre or Online
Speaker:
Prof Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University)
Organising department:
Department of Economics
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sanjaya-lall-visiting-professorship-2023-prof-joseph-e-stiglitz-lecture-tickets-600526620287
Cost:
FREE
Audience:
Public
Editors:
Emma Heritage,
Daria Ihnatenko
