Joseph E. Stiglitz teaches at Columbia University in New York. He has taught at Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT and was the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College in Oxford. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. Stiglitz is a graduate of Amherst College, and he received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1967.
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