What is Joseph Stiglitz?
{{Infobox officeholder |name= Joseph Stiglitz |image= Joseph E. Stiglitz - cropped.jpg |imagesize= |order = [[World Bank Chief Economist]] |term_start = 1997 |term_end = 2000 |preceded = [[Michael Bruno]] |succeeded = [[Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford|Nicholas Stern]] |order1 = 17th [[Council of Economic Advisors|Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors]] |term_start1 = June 28, 1995 |term_end1 = February 13, 1997 |president1 = [[Bill Clinton]] |predecessor1 = [[Laura Tyson]] |successor1 = [[Janet Yellen]] |birth_name=Joseph Eugene Stiglitz |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|02|09|mf=y}} |birth_place = [[Gary, Indiana]] |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = United States |party = [[Democratic Party (US)|Democratic]] |spouse = Jane Hannaway (1978–?; divorced)<br>[[Anya Schiffrin]] (m. 2004) |alma_mater = [[Amherst College]]<br>[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] }} {{nobelprize|Economics}}'''Joseph Eugene Stiglitz''', [[Fellow of the Royal Society|ForMemRS]], [[British Academy|FBA]] (born February 9, 1943) is an [[Americans|American]] [[economist]] and a professor of [[Jew]]ish descent. He works at [[Columbia University]]. He won the [[Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences]] (2001) and the [[John Bates Clark Medal]] (1979). He is a former senior vice president and [[World Bank Chief Economist|chief economist]] of the [[World Bank]], and is a former member, and Chairman of the [[Council of Economic Advisers]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Former Chief Economists|url=http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/0,,contentMDK:20437078~menuPK:4319683~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:469372,00.html|url-status=dead|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|access-date=2014-02-11|publisher