[Joseph_E._Stiglitz,_Carl_E._Walsh]_Economics(Bookos.org) (1)

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Joseph E. Stiglitz is professor of economics, business, and international and
public affairs at Columbia University. Before joining the Columbia faculty, he held
appointments at Yale, Oxford, Princeton, and Stanford. Internationally recognized
as one of the leading economists of his generation, Professor Stiglitz has made important
contributions to virtually all of the major subfields of economics, in particular
the economics of information, one of the key topics highlighted in this text. He was
a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 2001, and earlier in his
career 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. Professor Stiglitz is the author and editor of hundreds of scholarly articles
and books, including the best-selling undergraduate textbook Economics of the Public
Sector (Norton) and, with Anthony Atkinson, the classic graduate textbook Lectures
in Public Economics. He is the author of two influential popular books as well:
Globalization and Its Discontents and The Roaring Nineties. In addition, he was the
founding editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Professor Stiglitz has also
played a prominent role at the highest levels of economic policy making. He was a
member and chairman of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and
later served as Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank.
Carl E.Walsh is professor 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. He is widely known for his research in monetary economics
and is the author of a leading graduate text, Monetary Theory and Policy (MIT Press).
Before joining the Santa Cruz faculty, Professor 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 a past member of the board of editors of the
American Economic Review and is currently an associate editor of the Journal of
Money, Credit, and Banking and the Journal of Economics and Business. He is also on
the editorial board of the Journal of Macroeconomics.
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