The Generalitat has granted the 35th International Catalonia Award to the American economist Joseph Stiglitzprize Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001. Professor at Columbia University, Stiglitz (1943) is a worldwide reference for his defense of an economic policy “oriented towards the dignity of people and collective well-being”, has highlighted the President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonèsat the award announcement ceremony.
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The prize, endowed with 80,000 euros and a sculpture by Antoni Tàpies, will be presented to Stiglitz in a ceremony that will take place on June 22 at the Palau de la Generalitat. Aragonès has valued Stiglitz’s “will to transform”, as well as his “unequivocal outlook aimed at improving the economy and also the world”. “It is a reference for all those who believe that economic policy has to be oriented towards the dignity of people and the collective well-being, in the construction of a fairer and freer world, and where the whole of humanity gains quality of life and we can carry out our life project with security and freedom”, he pointed out.
The president has highlighted the Stiglitz’s “transformative pragmatism” and his analyzes on “how the current economic system excludes many people” and economic inequalities “end up causing political inequalities, with the deterioration of democracy that this entails”. Likewise, he has highlighted Stiglitz’s virtue of “giving a practical dimension to his thinking and the results of his research, getting involved and working in the main economic institutions of the world.” “Beyond idealism, Stiglitz teaches us how from the economy it is possible to build a fairer, more prosperous, greener, more feminist and, therefore, freer world”, he added.