Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist

Doctor Honoris causa of ENS de Lyon, November 5, 2019 Biography Joseph E. Stiglitz is an economist and is currently a Professor at Columbia University in New York, USA. He is also co-chair of the High-Level Expert Panel on Measuring Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD and Chief Economist at the Roosevelt Institute. Previously,  he was Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank and a member and president of the Council of Economic Advisers  under  Bill Clinton. In 2000,  he founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. Winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel in 2001 - with George Akerlof and Michael Spence - Joseph E. Stiglitz is often presented as belonging to the Neo-Keynesian movement that emerged in the 1980s in response to the new classical economy. As he himself said in 2007: "The theories to which I (and others) have contributed explain why markets free of restriction often do not lead to any form of social justice. Moreover, they do not generate enough revenue.