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Toward a just society : Joseph Stiglitz and twenty-first century economics / edited by Martin Guzman.

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Publisher's description: 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 l...

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Other Authors: Guzman, Martin (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Stiglitz, Joseph E. > Political and social views.
Law and economics.
Poverty.
Social policy.
Finance.
Economic development.
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Political and social views.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Joesph Stiglitz
  • Introduction / Martin Guzman
  • A firm-level perspective on the role of rents in the rise in inequality / Jason Furman, 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, Sanjay Reddy
  • 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, Michael L. Katz
  • Missing money and missing markets : application to electricity markets / David Newbery
  • 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, 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, Tomasz Michalski
  • Use and abuse of network effects / Hal Varian
  • Financial contagion revisited / Franklin Allen, Douglas Gale
  • The economics of information and financial networks / Stefano Battiston
  • 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
  • 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
  • Joe Stiglitz and representative and equitable global governance / José Antonio Ocampo
  • The fiscal opacity budget : 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 Pestieau, Gregory Ponthiere
  • Jomo E. Stiglitz : Kenya's first nobel laureate in economics / Celestin Monga.

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