The member of EQUALITAS, Carlos Gradín, performed the laudatio in an event that took place at the Palacio de la Magdalena, headquarters of the UIMP in Santander.
Carlos Gradín acknowledges that having been in charge of Joseph Stiglitz's laudatio is "a great honor, as he is one of the most outstanding and influential economists of our time, especially in the areas of public economics and economic development, with a special focus on the study of inequalities." In fact, the study of economic inequalities is one of the main topics analyzed by Stiglitz, "trying to understand the mechanisms that produce them, what their implications are, how they should be measured and what policies are most useful to combat them."
The ceremony can be seen on the UIMP TV channel.