Economics for an imperfect world : essays in honor of Joseph E. Stiglitz /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003. |
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| Description: | viii, 702 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5002795 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Joseph E. Stiglitz and Economics for an Imperfect World
- I. Imperfect Information
- 2. A Small Pearl for Doctor Stiglitz's Sixtieth Birthday: When Risk Averters Positively Relish "Excess Volatility"
- 3. On the Role of Good Faith in Insurance Contracting
- 4. Markets under Stress: The Case of Extreme Event Insurance
- 5. Per-Mile Premiums for Auto Insurance
- 6. Capital Adequacy Regulation: In Search of a Rationale
- 7. Learning Revisited
- 8. Regulating Nonlinear Environmental Systems under Knightian Uncertainty
- 9. Conflicting Preferences and Voluntary Restrictions on Choices
- 10. Punctuality: A Cultural Trait as Equilibrium
- 11. A Few Righteous Men: Imperfect Information, Quit-for-Tat, and Critical Mass in the Dynamics of Cooperation
- 12. Market Structure, Organizational Structure, and R&D Diversity
- 13. Patent Oppositions
- 14. The Economics of Vertical Restraints
- II. Macroeconomics, Public Economics, and Development
- 15. Stumbling toward a Macroeconomics of the Medium Run
- 16. Waiting for Work
- 17. Welfare Economics in Imperfect Economies
- 18. Optimality or Sustainability?
- 19. Labor Market Flexibility and the Welfare State
- 20. The Fiscal Politics of Big Governments: Do Coalitions Matter?
- 21. Indirect Taxation and Redistribution: The Scope of the Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem
- 22. Optimum Income Taxation When Earnings Are Imperfectly Correlated with Productivity
- 23. Can Government Collect Resources without Hurting Investors? Taxation of Returns from Assets
- 24. Reforming the Taxation of Human Capital: A Modest Proposal for Promoting Economic Growth
- 25. Birth, Recoveries, Vaccinations, and Externalities
- 26. The Road Less Traveled: Oligopoly and Competition Policy in General Equilibrium
- 27. Trade, Geography, and Monopolistic Competition: Theory and an Application to Spatial Inequalities in Developing Countries
- 28. Public Policy for Growth and Poverty Reduction
- 29. Risk, Reform, and Privatization
- 30. Can Privatization Come Too Soon? Politics after the Big Bang in Post-Communist Societies
- Appendix
- 31. Information and the Change in the Paradigm in Economics
- 32. Bibliography
- Index
