Nobel Prize-winning economist and Gary native Joseph Stiglitz will deliver a lecture next week at the University of Notre Dame.
Stiglitz will give a lecture on inequality from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Central time Monday at Hesburgh Center for International Studies Auditorium at the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Center in South Bend. It’s a rare public appearance for Stiglitz in his native northern Indiana.
He is scheduled to give a lecture entitled “The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.” as the inaugural Joseph E. Stiglitz Lecture on Inequality and the Good Society. The Keough School of Global Affairs’ new lecture series will bring scholars to Notre Dame every year to discuss economic and social inequality as part of the university’s overall “public commitment to giving primacy to issues of poverty and marginalization.”
The lecture series is meant to both honor Stiglitz’s legacy and share new scholarship and policy insights on economic and social inequality.
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“Joseph Stiglitz is a scholar who has devoted his life to being both a serious scholar and an eloquent and tireless public intellectual in challenging conventional thinking and representing the voiceless and marginalized in the hallways of power in pursuit of the good society,” the University of Notre Dame said in a news release. “Inequality is a complex and multi-dimensional challenge that is a major threat to our social fabric, our faith in core institutions and our democratic governance. And where inequality thrives, poverty persists. Addressing the twin challenges of inequality and poverty requires thoughtful, interdisciplinary responses and bold policy proposals.”
Stiglitz is a Columbia University professor, former chief economist of the World Bank and former chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He’s won both the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal.
Stiglitz has published a number of books, including “The Road to Freedom,” “The Price of Inequality,” “People, Power and Profits,” “Freefall” and “Globalization and its Discontents.”
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