Sydney Peace Prize 2018: Joseph Stiglitz

On 15 November, Professor Joseph Stiglitz will deliver the 2018 City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture, and will be awarded the Prize at the Sydney Town Hall.

The Sydney Peace Foundation has awarded Professor Stiglitz the 2018 Sydney Peace Prize 'for leading a global conversation about the crisis caused by economic inequality, for exposing the violence inflicted by market fundamentalism, and for championing just solutions to the defining challenge of our time: How can we break the cycle of power and greed to enable all peoples and the planet to flourish?'

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, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.  A recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979),…