Joseph Stiglitz
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 Joseph Stiglitz facts

• He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979)
• He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and is a former member and chairman of the (US president's) Council of Economic Advisers
• He is known for his support of Georgist public finance theory and his critical view of the management of globalization, laissez-faire 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
• He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001, and received that university's highest academic rank (university professor) in 2003
• He was the founding chair of the university's Committee on Global Thought
• He also chairs the University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute
• He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
• In 2009, the President of the United Nations General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, appointed Stiglitz as the chairman of the U
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