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Zombie economics : how dead ideas still walk among us /

"In the Graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism--the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated main stream...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quiggin, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012, ©2010.
Edición:Pbk. ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The great moderation. Birth: calm after the storms
  • Life: the great risk shift
  • Death: the dissenters and their vindication
  • Reanimation: a global crisis or a transitory blip?
  • After the zombies: rethinking the experience of the twentieth century
  • Further reading
  • 2. The efficient markets hypothesis. Birth: from casino to calculating machine
  • Life: black-scholes, bankers, and bubbles
  • Death: the crisis of 2008
  • Reanimation: Chicago revives the dead
  • After the zombies: the state and the market
  • Further reading
  • 3. Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium. Birth: from the Phillips curve to the NAIRU, and beyond
  • Life: rationality and the representative agent
  • Death: how did economists get it so wrong?
  • Reanimation: how Obama caused the global financial crisis
  • After the zombies: toward a realistic macroeconomics
  • Further reading
  • 4. Trickle-down economics. Birth: from supply-side economics to dynamic scoring
  • Life: excuses for inequality
  • Death: the rich get richer and the poor go nowhere
  • Reanimation: mobility without movement
  • After the zombies: economics, inequality, and equity
  • Further reading
  • 5. Privitization. Birth: we are all market liberals now
  • Life: a policy in search of a rationale
  • Death: puzzles and failures
  • Reanimation: dead for good?
  • After the zombies: the mixed economy
  • 6. Expansionary austerity. Birth: the treasury view
  • Life: the Great Depression
  • Death: the success of Keynesianism
  • Reanimation: expansionary austerity and the Euro
  • After the zombies: the case for hard Keynesianism
  • Further reading
  • Conclusion: Economics for the twenty-first century
  • A new approach to risk and uncertainty
  • What is needed in economics.