Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
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My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.Joseph E. Stiglitz
I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous.
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My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth.
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My work on the economics of uncertainty led naturally to the work on information asymmetries, and more generally, imperfect information.
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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
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