Joseph E. Stiglitz, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics, emeritus; at Stanford 1974-1976 and 1988-2001. Awarded the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for analyses of markets with asymmetric information."

• The Nobel Prize - 100 years of honoring achievement
  
  
• Stiglitz's faculty profile
  
  
• Spence shares Nobel with Joseph Stiglitz, former Stanford professor
  

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