Toward a just society : Joseph Stiglitz and twenty-first century economics /

This collection of essays reflects how modern economics has been shaped by Joseph Stiglitz, one of the world's greatest economists. The contributions to this volume, all penned by high-profile authors who have been guided by or collaborated with Stiglitz over the last five decades, span microec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Guzman, Martin, 1982- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Stiglitz, Joseph E. > Political and social views.
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Poverty.
Social policy.
Finance.
Economic development.
Poverty
Public Policy
Pauvreté.
Politique sociale.
Finances.
Développement économique.
poverty.
public policy.
finance.
economic development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
Political and social views.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Martin Guzman
  • Part I. Inequality. A firm-level perspective on the role of rents in the rise in inequality / Jason Furman and Peter Orszag
  • Parents, children, and luck : equality of opportunity and equality of outcome / Ravi Kanbur
  • The middle muddle : conceptualizing and measuring the global middle class / Arun Jayadev, Rahul Lahoti, and Sanjay Reddy
  • Part II. Microeconomics. Companies are seldom as good or as bad as they seem at the time / Gary Smith
  • What's so special about two-sided markets? / Benjamin E. Hermalin and Michael L. Katz
  • Missing money and missing markets : application to electricity markets / David Newbery
  • Part III. Macroeconomics. Thoughts on DSGE macroeconomics : matching the moment, but missing the point? / Anton Korinek
  • The "Schumpeterian" and the "Keynesian" Stiglitz : learning, coordination hurdles, and growth trajectories / Giovanni Dosi and Maria Enrica Virgillito
  • Deleterious effects of sustained deficit spending / Edmund Phelps
  • The rediscovery of financial market imperfections / John C. Williams
  • Ambiguity and international risk-sharing / Brian Hill and Tomasz Michalski
  • Part IV. Networks. Use and abuse of network effects / Hal Varian
  • Financial contagion revisited / Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale
  • The economics of information and financial networks / Stefano Battiston
  • Part V. Development. Joseph Stiglitz and China's transition success / Justin Yifu Lin
  • The sources of Chinese economic growth since 1978 / Lawrence J. Lau
  • Knowledge as a global common and the crisis of the learning economy / Ugo Pagano
  • Part VI. Law and economics. Conservatism and switcher's curse / Aaron Edlin
  • The "inner logic" of institutional evolution : towards a theory of the relationship between formal and informal law / Antara Haldar
  • Part VII. Public policies. Joe Stiglitz and representative and equitable global governance / Jose Antonio Ocampo
  • The fiscal opacity cycle: how America hid the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan / Linda J. Bilmes
  • It works in practice, but would it work in theory? : Joseph Stiglitz's contribution to our understanding of income contingent loans / Bruce Chapman
  • The public economics of long-term care / Pierre Piesteau and Gregory Ponthiere
  • Jomo E. Stiglitz : Kenya's first nobel laureate in economics / Celestin Monga
  • List of contributors
  • Index.

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