Editing Joseph Stiglitz (section)

===Clinton administration===
[[File:Néstor Kirchner with Joseph Stiglitz.jpg|thumb|[[Néstor Kirchner]] (''right'') with Joseph Stiglitz]]
Stiglitz joined the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton Administration]] in 1993,<ref>{{cite web | title = Brief Biography of Joseph E. Stiglitz | url = http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/bio.cfm | website = columbia.edu | publisher = [[Columbia University]] | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110829164327/http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/bio.cfm | archive-date = 2011-08-29 }}</ref> serving first as a member during 1993–1995, and was then appointed Chairman of the [[Council of Economic Advisers]] on June 28, 1995.<ref name="NOBEL1"/>

Stiglitz always had a poor relationship with Treasury Secretary [[Lawrence Summers]].<ref>{{cite news | last = Hirsh | first = Michael | title = Why Washington ignores an economic prophet | url = http://europe.newsweek.com/why-washington-ignores-economic-prophet-81985?rm=eu | work = [[Newsweek]] |publisher=Newsweek LLC |date = 18 July 2009 }}</ref> In 2000, Summers successfully petitioned for Stiglitz's removal, supposedly in exchange for World Bank President [[James Wolfensohn]]'s re-appointment{{snd}}an exchange that Wolfensohn denies took place. Whether Summers ever made such a blunt demand is questionable{{snd}} Wolfensohn claims he would "have told him to *** himself".<ref>Mallaby, ''The World's Banker'', p. 266.</ref>

Stiglitz resigned from the World Bank in January 2000, a month before his term expired.<ref name=DANGEROUS>{{cite web | last = Hage | first = Dave |url=http://www.commondreams.org/views/101100-101.htm |title=Joseph Stiglitz: A Dangerous Man, A World Bank Insider Who Defected | work = [[Star Tribune]] |publisher=Commondreams.org | location = Minneapolis |date=October 11, 2000 |access-date=October 29, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130814032443/http://www.commondreams.org/views/101100-101.htm |archive-date=August 14, 2013 }}</ref> The [[World Bank|Bank's president]], James Wolfensohn, announced Stiglitz's resignation in November 1999 and also announced that Stiglitz would stay on as Special Advisor to the President, and would chair the search committee for a successor.

{{blockquote|Joseph E. Stiglitz said today [Nov. 24, 1999] that he would resign as the World Bank's chief economist after using the position for nearly three years to raise pointed questions about the effectiveness of conventional approaches to helping poor countries.<ref name=RESIGN>{{cite news | last = Stevenson | first = Richard W. |title= Outspoken chief economist leaving World Bank | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801EFDB163FF936A15752C1A96F958260 | work = [[The New York Times]] |date=November 25, 1999 |access-date=October 29, 2013}}</ref>}}

In this role, he continued criticism of the IMF, and, by implication, the US Treasury Department. In April 2000, in an article for ''[[The New Republic]]'', he wrote:

{{blockquote|They'll say the IMF is arrogant. They'll say the IMF doesn't really listen to the developing countries it is supposed to help. They'll say the IMF is secretive and insulated from democratic accountability. They'll say the IMF's economic 'remedies' often make things worse{{snd}} turning slowdowns into recessions and recessions into depressions. And they'll have a point. I was chief economist at the World Bank from 1996 until last November, during the gravest global economic crisis in a half-century. I saw how the IMF, in tandem with the U.S. Treasury Department, responded. And I was appalled.}}

Stiglitz's protector-of-sorts at the World Bank, Wolfensohn, had privately empathized with Stiglitz's views, but was worried for his second term, which Summers had threatened to veto.{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}} Stanley Fischer, deputy managing director of the IMF, called a special staff meeting and informed the gathering that Wolfensohn had agreed to fire Stiglitz. Meanwhile, the bank's [[Foreign policy|External Affairs]] department told the press that Stiglitz had not been fired; his post had merely been abolished.<ref name=WADE>{{cite book | last = Wade | first = Robert | title = US hegemony and the World Bank: Stiglitz's firing and Kanbur's resignation | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080529110008/http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/evans/evans_pdf/Wade.pdf | archive-date = 29 May 2008 | url = http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/evans/evans_pdf/Wade.pdf | publisher = [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]] }}</ref>

In a September 19, 2008 radio interview, with [[Aimee Allison]] and Philip Maldari on [[Pacifica Foundation|Pacifica Radio]]'s [[KPFA]] 94.1&nbsp;FM in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], United States, Stiglitz implied that President Clinton and his economic advisors would not have backed the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA) had they been aware of stealth provisions, inserted by lobbyists, that they overlooked.