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Stiglitz to speak at CIRIEC's 27th International Congress, Seville 2008
The Nobel Economics Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz will give a lecture on the opening day of the 27th International Congress of CIRIEC, which will be held from 22 to 24 September 2008 in Seville (Spain). This major public, social and cooperative economy event is being organised by CIRIEC-Spain in conjunction with CEPES Andalucía and the Andalusian Regional Government. Joseph Stiglitz is scheduled to speak after the Congress Opening ceremony.
King Juan Carlos' honorary chairmanship and the lecture by Joseph Stiglitz are the first high-impact news items to come out of a Congress that is already under way.
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (Gary, Indiana, February 9, 1943), a professor at Columbia University, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001. He is one of the best-known economists in the world, owing to books that have reached a very wide audience and his views on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
In addition to making influential contributions to microeconomics, Stiglitz has held a number of public posts. He worked in several areas in the Clinton administration, where he was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors from 1995 to 1997. At the World Bank, he served as Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist between 1997 and 2000.
As well as technical works on economics, Stiglitz has written books such as Whither Socialism and Globalization and its Discontents.
A landmark in the history of CIRIEC
The director of CIRIEC-International, Bernard Thiry, has congratulated CIRIEC-España on the confirmation of Joseph Stiglitz as a speaker. In his opinion, the presence of Stiglitz "increases the already good expectations generated by the Seville Congress". For Thiry, the Nobel Prize winner's participation "is a landmark in the history of CIRIEC”, a scientific organisation with over 60 years to its name.
The Seville Congress will be held at the Conference Centre of the Hotel Renacimiento in Seville, which has a maximum capacity of 1000.
