Author Biography
Joseph E. Stiglitz is university professor at Columbia and Co-Chair of Columbia s Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and co-president of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia. Before joining the Columbia faculty, he held appointments at Yale, Oxford, Princeton and Stanford. Internationally recognised as one of the leading economists of his generation, Professor Stiglitz has made important contributions to virtually all of the major subfiields of economics, in particular the economics of information, one of the key topics highlighted in this text. Recognised around the world as a leading economic educator, he has written textbooks that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2001, Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information, and he was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Earlier in his career, he received the American Economic Association s John Bates Clark Medal, which is given every two years to the most outstanding economist under the age of forty. In 2011, Time magazine named Stiglitz one of the 100 most infl uential people in the world. Stiglitz was Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration, and later served as Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. In 2008, he chaired the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, and in 2009 he was appointed by the United Nations General Assembly as chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System. In 2010, Stiglitz was invited to speak by the Economics Society of Australia, and gave a number of media interviews on his tour. In particular, he made comment on the state of the local economy in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the role of natural resources, and the country s response to climate change. Carl E. Walsh is distinguished professor of economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he teaches principles of economics. He previously held faculty appointments at Princeton and the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and has been a visiting professor at Stanford. Walsh s research deals primarily with central banking and issues associated with the theory of monetary policy. His recent work as focused on the role of transparency and monetary policy announcements, the role of the cost channel in the transmission of monetary policy, and the integration of modern theories of unemployment into frameworks for monetary policy analysis. Before joining the Santa Cruz faculty, Walsh was senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, where he continues to serve as a visiting scholar. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of Kansas City, Philadelphia, and at the Board of Governors. He has taught courses in monetary economics to the research department and staff economists at the central banks of Hong Kong, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom, and at the International Monetary Fund. He is currently co-editor of the International Journal of Central Banking, and an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking and the Journal of Economics and Business. He is also on the editorial boards of the Journal of Macroeconomics and New Zealand Economic Papers. Ross Guest is a professor of economics and Dean (Learning and Teaching) in the Griffi th Business School at Griffi th University. He is an adjunct professor with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), a senior teaching fellow with the Office of Learning and Teaching, and co-editor of the International Review of Economics Education. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Melbourne. Guest was first employed as a lecturer at Monash University in 1991
