The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.
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Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.Joseph E. Stiglitz
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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Another project that I began in Cambridge concerned the interaction between the distribution of income and short run macro economic behavior.
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I approached the problem as a series of thought experiments - unlike many other sciences, we typically cannot do actual experiments.
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As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.
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