2001 Nobel Prize winner to discuss the new millennium, economic laws

Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Prize winner in economics, will talk about how the new millennium has changed laws of economics at noon on Thursday (10/7) at the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Drive.

Stiglitz shared the Nobel Prize with George Akerlof and A. Michael Spence for their work on the impact of asymmetrical information of market systems.

Stiglitz has written numerous books, including his most recent, “The Roaring Nineties” and “Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics. ” His other books include “Globalization and its Discontents,” “Peasants versus City Dwellers: Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development” and “New Ideas About Old Age Security; Toward Sustainable Pension Systems in the 21st Century.”

Stiglitz is currently a professor of economics and finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He has previously served as senior vice president and chief economist for the World Bank, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors and an associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for Policy Reform.

WHAT:The title of the talk by Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Prize winner in economics, is, “Has the New Millennium Repealed the Old Economic Laws?”

WHEN:Noon on Thursday (10/7)

WHERE:Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Drive.