http://www.ceu.hu/news/2009-10-18/joseph-stiglitz-lectures-at-ceu-on-lessons-from-the-financial-crisis
Joseph Stiglitz will lecture on the lessons from the financial crisis and their implications for economic theory at CEU on October 21st, 2009. Introductory remarks will be provided by Professor John Shattuck, President and Rector, CEU. The discussion will be chaired by Professor Janos Kornai, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University, Permanent Fellow Emeritus, Collegium Budapest and Distinguished Research Professor at CEU
Joseph Stiglitz 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. He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisors from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000.
Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics, "The Economics of Information," exploring the consequences of information asymmetries and pioneering such pivotal concepts as adverse selection and moral hazard, which have now become standard tools not only of theorists, but of policy analysts. He has made major contributions to macro-economics and monetary theory, to development economics and trade theory, to public and corporate finance, to the theories of industrial organization and rural organization, and to the theories of welfare economics and of income and wealth distribution. In the 1980s, he helped revive interest in the economics of R&D.
