The International Economic Association announces the Stiglitz Essay Prize

The International Economic Association (IEA) is happy to announce the first Stiglitz Essay Prize (SEP) in honour of the past President of the association, Joseph E. Stiglitz.

The prize is open to any student in full time study.

To be eligible for the prize, submitted essays should be on one of two broad themes reflecting Professor Stiglitz's interests:

• The causes and policy consequences of growing inequality
• The reconstruction of macroeconomics and proposals for new approaches that speak to the weaknesses in modelling revealed by the 2008 global crisis

The deadline for submitting essays is Tuesday 1 September 2015 at 23:59 hours (GMT).

Please send submissions to the IEA Secretariat on iea@iea-world.org indicating in the subject your name as follows: SEP_LAST NAME_Name.

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