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Crawford School Oration 2014 - Crisis averted? Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis

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Crawford School of Public Policy

Event details

Lecture

Date & time

Monday 30 June 2014
5.30pm–6.45pm

Venue

Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music, Building 100, William Herbet Place, ANU

Speaker

Professor Joseph Stiglitz.

Contacts

Yanhong Ouyang
6125 4387

The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) radically changed the view and role of economics and gave the world a worrying new perspective on the significance of economic shocks. But was the global policy response right? Will it happen again?

In this landmark lecture, Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz will examine the origins of GFC, analyse the economic policy responses and discuss whether the crisis really has been averted. He will also look at what’s right, and wrong, with contemporary policy stances.

Professor Stiglitz is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading economists. He is a University Professor at Columbia University, New York, having previously taught at Oxford, Yale, MIT, Stanford, and Princeton.
In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information, and he was a lead author of the 1995 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2011, Time named Professor Stiglitz one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is now serving as President of the International Economic Association.

He was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank. In 2008 he was asked by the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, to chair the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. He now chairs a high level expert group at the OECD attempting to further advance these ideas. In 2009 he was appointed by the President of the United Nations General Assembly as chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System.

Professor Stiglitz’s visit is sponsored by Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.

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