Joseph Eugene Stiglitz is an American New Keynesian economist,a public policy analyst,political activist,and a full 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 a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank. He is also a former member and chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. He is known for his support for the Georgist public finance theory and for his critical view of the management of globalization,of laissez-faire economists,and of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Neoliberalism,also neo-liberalism,is both a political philosophy and a term used to signify the late-20th-century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism. The term has multiple,competing definitions,and is often used pejoratively. In scholarly use,the term is frequently undefined or used to characterize a vast variety of phenomena,but is primarily used to describe the transformation of society due to market-based reforms.
Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.
The Hoover Institution is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty,free enterprise,and limited government. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University,it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. It is widely described as conservative,although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan.
John Harold Williamson was a British-born economist who coined the term Washington Consensus. He served as a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 1981 until his retirement in 2012. During that time,he was the project director for the United Nations High-Level Panel on Financing for Development in 2001. He was also on leave as chief economist for South Asia at the World Bank during 1996–99,adviser to the International Monetary Fund from 1972 to 1974,and an economic consultant to the UK Treasury from 1968 to 1970. He was also an economics professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1978–81),University of Warwick (1970–77),Massachusetts Institute of Technology,University of York (1963–68) and Princeton University (1962–63).
International political economy (IPE) is the study of how politics shapes the global economy and how the global economy shapes politics. A key focus in IPE is on the power of different actors such as nation states,international organizations and multinational corporations to shape the international economic system and the distributive consequences of international economic activity. It has been described as the study of "the political battle between the winners and losers of global economic exchange."
Nouriel Roubini is a Turkish-born Iranian-American economic consultant,economist,speaker and writer. He is a Professor Emeritus since 2021 at the Stern School of Business of New York University.
A transition economy or transitional economy is an economy which is changing from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. Transition economies undergo a set of structural transformations intended to develop market-based institutions. These include economic liberalization,where prices are set by market forces rather than by a central planning organization. In addition to this trade barriers are removed,there is a push to privatize state-owned enterprises and resources,state and collectively run enterprises are restructured as businesses,and a financial sector is created to facilitate macroeconomic stabilization and the movement of private capital. The process has been applied in China,the former Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries of Europe and some Third world countries,and detailed work has been undertaken on its economic and social effects.
Economic liberalization,or economic liberalisation,is the lessening of government regulations and restrictions in an economy in exchange for greater participation by private entities. In politics,the doctrine is associated with classical liberalism and neoliberalism. Liberalization in short is "the removal of controls" to encourage economic development.
The Leonard N. Stern School of Business is the business school of New York University,a private research university based in New York City. Founded as the School of Commerce,Accounts and Finance in 1900,the school received its current name in 1988.
Branko Milanović is a Serbian-American economist. He is most known for his work on income distribution and inequality.
K. Y. Amoako is a Ghanaian international civil servant with a five-decade career in African development. He is a thought leader on policies and initiatives of governance and growth on the continent,and he has worked alongside development specialists to address African and global development issues.
The Bernacer Prize is awarded annually to European young economists who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of macroeconomics and finance. The prize is named after Germán Bernácer,an early Spanish macroeconomist.
Richard Eugene Sylla is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Museum of American Finance.
Thomas Ferguson Cooley was the Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics at the New York University Stern School of Business. He served as Dean of the Stern School from 2002 to January 2010. He was also a professor of economics in the NYU Faculty of Arts and Science. Cooley was a widely published scholar in the areas of macroeconomic theory,monetary theory and policy,and the financial behavior of firms.
Thomas C. Heller is a climate policy lawyer and academic. He currently serves as the chairman of the board for Climate Policy Initiative,an organization he founded in 2009 that works to improve energy and land use policies,with offices and programs in Brazil,China,Europe,India,and Indonesia,and the United States.
Geeta Menon is the Abraham Krasnoff Professor of Global Business at New York University Stern School of Business,and is the current chair of the Marketing Department. Most recently,she was the 11th Dean of the NYU Stern Undergraduate College (2011-2019). She has been a member of NYU Stern's Marketing Faculty since 1990,where she also previously served a term as department chair (2004-2008). In January 2015,The Economic Times,India's leading business publication,listed Menon as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.
Ann E. Harrison is the 15th Dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California,Berkeley,and the second woman to head the top-ranked business school. Dean Harrison is an economist and one of the most highly-cited scholars on foreign investment and multinational firms.
Laura Veldkamp is an American economist teaching as a professor of finance at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and also serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Economic Theory.
The Department of Economics is an academic department of the University of Oxford within the Social Sciences Division. Relatively recently founded in 1999,the department is located in the Norman Foster-designed Manor Road Building.
