*Please note* that this seminar will take place exceptionally in Room N201, on Sciences Po's Saint Thomas campus site.*

For our first Macroeconomics Seminar of the year, we are immensely honoured to be hosting 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz.

He will present a paper, joint with Tomohiro Hirano, on the topic:

Henry George, land speculation, and economic growth and transformation (read paper)

Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, the co-chair of The Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT) and Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.  He is a former senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. 

In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001. In 2024 he was named an Honorary Academician by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and in 2025 Pope Francis named him a Chair of the Jubilee Commission of Experts to address Debt and Development Crises. 

Known for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Stiglitz's research focuses on income distribution, climate change, corporate governance, public policy, macroeconomics and globalization. He is the author of numerous books including, most recently, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society and The Origins of Inequality & Policies to Contain It.

Joseph E. Stiglitz's website

The next Macroeconomics Seminar will host Karthik SASTRY (Princeton) on October 15th.