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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Joseph Schumpeter, Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Hernando de Soto Polar, Jeffrey Sachs, Gunnar Myrdal, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Ha-Joon Chang, Celso Furtado, Sanjaya Lall, Simon Kuznets, Albert O. Hirschman, Peter Thomas Bauer, Mahbub ul Haq, Raul Prebisch, Erik S. Reinert, Maitreesh Ghatak, William Easterly, Vernon Wesley Ruttan, Graciela Chichilnisky, Hans Singer, Partha Dasgupta, Stephen C. Smith, Arthur Lewis, Paul A. Baran, Anthony Thirlwall, Esther Duflo, Alexander Gerschenkron, Pranab Bardhan, Paul Streeten, Ragnar Nurkse, Daniel Thorner, Hollis B. Chenery, Robert M. Townsend, K. N. Raj, Dean Karlan, Tran Van Tho, Dudley Seers, Ian Livingstone, Debraj Ray, Jacob Schmookler, Johannes de Villiers Graaff, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, Alice Amsden, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Finn Tarp, Sanjay Jain, John Harry Dunning, Stefan Dercon, Albert J. Meyer, Nancy Birdsall, Irma Adelman, Peter Ady, Deepak Lal, Michael Lipton, Kurt Mandelbaum, Phil Leeson, Robert Wade, Richard Jolly, Alan Winters, Frances Stewart, Gustav Ranis, Anthony Shorrocks, Lal Jayawardena, Rachel Glennerster, Jeni Klugman, John Weeks. 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...
