Joseph Stiglitz vs. Robert Solow
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Joseph Stiglitz
1943 – present
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, political activist, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979). He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank.
"When I was at the World Bank, it would often be said in the face of obvious failure that our strategy was correct, it just wasn't implemented well."
Robert Solow
1924 – 2023
Robert Merton Solow, GCIH was an American economist known for his studies of economic growth and the development of the Solow–Swan model, for which he won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
"I think that this is Schumpeter’s main legacy to economics: the role of technological and organizational innovation in driving and shaping the growth trajectory…"
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