The W.P. Carey Lecturer this year is Joseph E. Stiglitz, an American economist and a professor at Columbia University.

He has a distinguished career working globally in Economics. He has worked with the OECD, the World Bank, the Roosevelt Institute, and the (US president's) Council of Economic Advisers. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979).

In 2011 Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Known for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Stiglitz's work focuses on income distribution, risk, corporate governance, public policy, macroeconomics and globalization.

Stiglitz is also an author of numerous books, and several bestsellers. Tutt Libray has much of Stiglitz work in both print and ebook (electronic) formats.