[Lecture] The Resurgence of Industrial Policy and the New Protectionism

Dec. 01, 2024

Title: The Resurgence of Industrial Policy and the New Protectionism

Time: 10:30 -11:45 a.m., Dec 1, 2024, GMT +8

Venue: Room B101，National School of Development, Peking University (Chengze Garden Campus)（Route Map of Chengze Garden Campus Attached）

Speaker: JOSEPH E.STIGLITZ (University Professor, Columbia University, the Nobel Economic Prize Winner in 2001)

Host: Yiping HUANG (Dean of National School of Development, Peking University)

Introduction:
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. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers.

In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. In 2011 Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. 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, People, Power, and Profits, Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy, and Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited.

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This lecture is open to PKU students and faculty only.

Source: Peking University Office of International Relations