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Joseph Stiglitz

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Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, 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 a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank. He is also a former member and chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Stiglitz is the 28th most popular economist (down from 22nd in 2019), the 522nd most popular biography from United States (down from 366th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Economist. Learn more about Joseph Stiglitz's academic impact at Rankless.

Joseph Stiglitz is an economist who is most famous for his work in the fields of macroeconomics and international trade. He has served as the Chief Economist of the World Bank, a Professor at Stanford University, and a professor at Columbia University.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Joseph Stiglitz ranks 28 out of 414. Before him are Jan Tinbergen, Robert Lucas Jr., Ragnar Frisch, Paul Samuelson, Alexander Hamilton, and Jean-Baptiste Say. After him are Amartya Sen, Gunnar Myrdal, Henri Fayol, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Elinor Ostrom, and Charles Cooley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Joseph Stiglitz ranks 28. Before him are Ben Kingsley, Keith Richards, Sadako Sasaki, Elena Ferrante, Christopher Walken, and Salvatore Adamo. After him are Horst Köhler, Jean-Louis Tauran, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Khalifa Haftar, Louise Glück, and Raffaella Carrà.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Stiglitz ranks 522 out of 20,380. Before him are J. P. Morgan (1837), James Hong (1929), Robert Taylor (1911), Talcott Parsons (1902), Stanford Moore (1913), and Romina Power (1951). After him are Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911), Louis Gossett Jr. (1936), Irwin Rose (1926), Dean Martin (1917), Herman Hollerith (1860), and Jim Mattis (1950).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Joseph Stiglitz ranks 7. Before him are Herbert A. Simon (1916), Milton Friedman (1912), George Shultz (1920), William F. Sharpe (1934), Robert Lucas Jr. (1937), and Paul Samuelson (1915). After him are Elinor Ostrom (1933), Charles Cooley (1864), Michael Porter (1947), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), Edmund Phelps (1933), and Gary Becker (1930).

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