Winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz is the best-selling author of Making Globalization Work ; Globalization and Its Discontents ; and, with Linda Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War . He was chairman of President Clintonamp;#039;s Council of Economic Advisers and served as senior vice president and chief economist at the World Bank. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.