Information Economists - Joseph Stiglitz, Leonid Hurwicz, Artyom Shneyerov, George Akerlof, Susan Athey, James Mirrlees, Jean Tirole (Paperback)

Chapters: Joseph Stiglitz, Leonid Hurwicz, Artyom Shneyerov, George Akerlof, Susan Athey, James Mirrlees, Jean Tirole, Eric Maskin, Paul Milgrom, Michael Spence, Lane P. Hughston, Jean-Jacques Laffont, Oliver Hart, Chen Yu, Jack Hirshleifer, Bengt R. Holmstrom, Edward J. Green, David M. Kreps. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 88. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is also the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. He is known for his critical view of the management of globalization, free-market economists (whom he calls "free market fundamentalists") and some international institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. Since 2001, he has been a member of the Columbia faculty, and has held the rank of University Professor since 2003. He also chairs the University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute and is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Stiglitz is also an honorary professor at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management. Stiglitz is one of the most frequently cited economists in the world. Stiglitz was born in Gary, Indiana, to Jewish parents, Charlotte and Nathaniel Stiglitz. From 1960 to 1963, he studied at Amherst College, where he was a highly active member of the debate team and President of the Student Government. He went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his fourth year as an undergradua...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=6309