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'''Joseph Eugene Stiglitz''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|t|ɪ|g|l|ɪ|t|s}}; born February 9, 1943) is an American [[New Keynesian economics|New Keynesian]] [[economist]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Free |first=Rhona C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nQBzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA317 |title=21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook |date=14 May 2010 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-1-4522-6631-2 |pages=317 |language=en}}</ref> a [[public policy analyst]], political activist, and a full professor at [[Columbia University]]. He is a recipient of the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (2001)<ref name="NOBEL1">{{Cite web|date=2002|title=Joseph E. Stiglitz, Biographical. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2001|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2001/stiglitz/biographical/|access-date=2021-05-05|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US}}</ref> and the [[John Bates Clark Medal]] (1979).<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021|title=Joseph Stiglitz, Clark Medalist 1979|url=https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-awards/bates-clark/joseph-stiglitz|access-date=2021-05-05|website=[[American Economic Association]]}}</ref> He is a former senior vice president and [[World Bank Chief Economist|chief economist]] of the [[World Bank]]. He is also a former member and chairman of the US [[Council of Economic Advisers]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/0,,contentMDK:20437078~menuPK:4319683~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:469372,00.html |title=Former Chief Economists |website=worldbank.org |publisher=World Bank |access-date=2012-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104225502/http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/0,,contentMDK:20437078~menuPK:4319683~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:469372,00.html |archive-date=2017-11-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/cea/about/Former-Members |title=Former Members of the Council |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121012254/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/cea/about/Former-Members |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |archive-date=2017-01-21 }}</ref> He is known for his support for the [[Georgist]] public finance theory<ref>Gochenour, Zachary, and Bryan Caplan. "An entrepreneurial critique of Georgism." The Review of Austrian Economics 26.4 (2013): 483–491.</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Orszag|first1=Peter|title=To Fight Inequality, Tax Land|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-03-03/to-fight-inequality-tax-land|access-date=12 November 2016|publisher=Bloomberg View|date=March 3, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Lucas|first1=Edward|title=Land-value tax: Why Henry George had a point|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/04/land-value-tax|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=12 November 2016}}</ref> and for his critical view of the management of [[globalization]], of ''[[laissez-faire]]'' economists (whom he calls "[[Market fundamentalism|free-market fundamentalists]]"), and of international institutions such as the [[International Monetary Fund]] and the [[World Bank]].