Information economists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: Alexander Chayanov, Andrey Korotayev, Artyom Shneyerov, Bengt R. Holmström, Chen Yu (information scientist), David M. Kreps, Edward J. Green, Eric Maskin, George Akerlof, Jack Hirshleifer, James Mirrlees, Jean-Jacques Laffont, Jean Tirole, Joseph Stiglitz, Leonid Hurwicz, Marc Chervel, Michael Spence, Oliver Hart (economist), Paul Milgrom, Susan Athey. Excerpt: Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, ForMemRS, FBA (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is also the former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank. He is known for his critical view of the management 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 been a University Professor since 2003. He also chairs the University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute as well as the Socialist International Commission on Global Financial Issues and is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Stiglitz has over 40 honorary doctorates and at least eight honorary professorships, as well as an honorary deanship. Stiglitz is one of the most frequently cited economists in the world and the author of ten books, with his latest, The Price of Inequality (2012), hitting The New York Times best seller list. Stiglitz was born in Gary, Indiana, to Jewish parents, Charlotte (née Fishman) and Nathaniel D. Stiglitz. From 1960 to 1963, he studied at Amherst College, where he was a highly active member of the debate team and president of the student government. He went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his fourth year as an undergraduate, where he later pursued graduate work. His undergraduate degree was awarded from Amherst College. From 1965 to 1966, he moved to the University of Chicago to do research under Hirofumi Uzawa who had received an NSF grant. He studied for his PhD from MIT from 1966 to 1967, during which time he also held an MIT assistant