Toward a Just Society (EPUB) von Martin Guzman

Preface, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Introduction, by Martin Guzman
Part I. Inequality
1. A Firm-Level Perspective on the Role of Rents in the Rise in Inequality, by Jason Furman and Peter Orszag
2. Parents, Children, and Luck: Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome, by Ravi Kanbur
3. The Middle Muddle: Conceptualizing and Measuring the Global Middle Class, by Arjun Jayadev, Rahul Lahoti, and Sanjay Reddy
Part II. Microeconomics
4. Companies Are Seldom as Good or as Bad as They Seem at the Time, by Gary Smith
5. What’s So Special About Two-Sided Markets?, by Benjamin E. Hermalin and Michael L. Katz
6. Missing Money and Missing Markets in the Electricity Industry, by David Newbery
Part III. Macroeconomics
7. Thoughts on DSGE Macroeconomics: Matching the Moment, But Missing the Point?, by Anton Korinek
8. The “Schumpeterian” and the “Keynesian” Stiglitz: Learning, Coordination Hurdles, and Growth Trajectories, by Giovanni Dosi and Maria Enrica Virgillito
9. Deleterious Effects of Sustained Deficit Spending, by Edmund Phelps
10. The Rediscovery of Financial Market Imperfections, by John C. Williams
11. Ambiguity and International Risk Sharing, by Brian Hill and Tomasz Michalski
Part IV. Networks
12. Use and Abuse of Network Effects, by Hal Varian
13. Financial Contagion Revisited, by Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale
14. The Economics of Information and Financial Networks, by Stefano Battiston
Part V. Development
15. Joseph Stiglitz and China’s Transition Success, by Justin Yifu Lin
16. The Sources of Chinese Economic Growth Since 1978, by Lawrence J. Lau
17. Knowledge as a Global Common and the Crisis of the Learning Economy, by Ugo Pagano
Part VI. Law and Economics
18. Conservatism and Switcher’s Curse, by Aaron Edlin
19. The “Inner Logic” of Institutional Evolution: Toward a Theory of the Relationship Between Formal and “Informal” Law, by Antara Haldar
Part VII. Public Policies
20. Joe Stiglitz and Representative and Equitable Global Governance, by José Antonio Ocampo
21. The Fiscal Opacity Cycle: How America Hid the Costs of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, by Linda J. Bilmes
22. It Works in Practice, But Would It Work in Theory? Joseph Stiglitz’s Contribution to Our Understanding of Income Contingent Loans, by Bruce Chapman
23. The Public Economics of Long-Term Care, by Pierre Pestieau and Gregory Ponthiere
24. Jomo E. Stiglitz: Kenya’s First Nobel Laureate in Economics, by Célestin Monga
List of Contributors
Index