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Prof. Stiglitz arrives in Accra
Accra, July 7, Ghanadot/GNA - Professor
Joseph Stiglitz a Noble Prize Laureate in Economics arrived
in Accra for an official engagement at the invitation of the
African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET).
An official statement issued by the Centre in Accra said
while in the country Professor Stiglitz will meet the press
and deliver a public lecture at the British Council Hall.
Prof. Stiglitz is an American economist and a member of the
Columbia University faculty.
He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal (1979) and
the The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel (2001).
Former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the
World Bank, he is known for his critical view 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.
Stiglitz is the second most cited economist in the world, as
of 2008.
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. His book Globalization and
Its Discontents (W.W. Norton June 2001) has been translated
into 35 languages, besides at least two pirated editions,
and in the non-pirated editions has sold more than one
million copies worldwide.
Other recent books include The Roaring Nineties (W.W.
Norton), Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics
(Cambridge University Press) with Bruce Greenwald, Fair
Trade for All (Oxford University Press), with Andrew
Charlton, and Making Globalization Work, (WW Norton and
Penguin/ Allen Lane, September 2006). His most recent book,
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq
Conflict, with Linda Bilmes of Harvard University, was
published in March 2008 by WW Norton and Penguin/ Allen
Lane.
Prof Stiglitz is being accompanied by his wife Anya, a
lecturer in media studies at the University of Columbia.
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