Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz appearance rescheduled
New date: Wednesday, December 7
The Speaker Series lecture by Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and best-selling author, has been rescheduled to Wednesday, December 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the McGarvey Commons in the Reed Union Building. The event is free and open to the public. The lecture had been previously scheduled for October 13.
A graduate of Amherst College, Stiglitz received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 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 has taught at Princeton, Stanford, MIT and was the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now University Professor at Columbia University in New York. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.
Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95 and chairman of that group from 1995-97. He then moved to the World Bank, where he served as chief economist and senior vice-president. Recognized around the world as a leading economic educator, he has written textbooks that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He founded one of the leading economics journals, The Journal of Economic Perspectives. He has recently come out with a new book, The Roaring Nineties (W.W. Norton). His book Globalization and Its Discontents (W.W. Norton June 2001) has been translated into 28 languages and is an international bestseller.
The Speaker Series is sponsored by the Student Activity Fee, the Division of Student Affairs, the Sam and Irene Black School of Business, the Janet Neff Sample Center for Manners and Civility, the School of Science, and the Harriet Behrend Ninow Memorial Lecture Series Fund. For more information about the series, contact Division of Student Affairs at (814) 898-6111.