Economics for the common good
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- ISBN: 0691175160
- ISBN: 9780691175164
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Physical Description:
xii, 563 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
regular print
print - Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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General Note: | Translation of: Économie du bien commun. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-550) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : whatever happened to the common good? : -- Itinerary -- The relationship between society and economics -- The economist's profession -- Institutions -- A window on our world -- The common thread -- Part I. Economics and society : -- 1. Do you like economics? : -- What prevents our understanding economics -- The market and other ways of managing scarcity -- How to make economics better understood -- 2. The moral limits of the market : -- The moral limits of the market or market failure? -- The noncommercial and the sacred -- The market, a threat to social cohesion? -- Inequality -- Part II. The economist's profession : -- 3. The economist in civil society : -- The economist as public intellectual -- The pitfalls of involvement in society -- A few safeguards for an essential relationship -- From theory to economic policy -- 4. The everyday life of a researcher : -- The interplay between theory and empirical evidence -- The microcosm of academic economics -- Economists : foxes or hedgehogs? -- The role of mathematics -- Game theory and information theory -- An economist at work : methodological contributions -- 5. Economics on the move : An agent who is not always rational : -- Homo psychologicus -- Homo socialis -- Homo incitatus : the counterproductive effects of rewards -- Homo juridicus : law and social norms -- More unexpected lines of inquiry -- Part III. An institutional framework for the economy : -- 6. Toward a modern state : -- The market has many defects that must be corrected -- The complementarity between the market and the state and the foundations of liberalism -- Politicians or technocrats? -- Reforming the state : the example of France -- 7. The governance and social responsibility of business : -- Many possible organizations, but few are chosen -- And what is business's social responsibility? -- Part IV. The great macroeconomic challenges : -- 8. The climate challenge : -- What is at stake in climate change? -- Reasons for the standstill -- Negotiations that fall short of the stakes involved -- Making everyone accountable for GHG emissions -- Inequality and the pricing of carbon -- The credibility of an international agreement -- In conclusion : putting negotiations back on track -- 9. Labor market challenges : -- The labor market in France -- An economic analysis of labor contracts -- Perverse institutional incentives -- What can reform achieve and how can it be implemented successfully? -- The other great debates about employment -- The urgency -- 10. Europe at the crossroads : -- The European project : from hope to doubt -- The origins of the Euro crisis -- Greece : much bitterness on both sides -- What options do the EU and the Eurozone have today? -- 11. What use is finance? : -- What use is finance? -- How to transform useful products into toxic products -- Are markets efficient? -- Why regulate in fact? -- 12. The financial crisis of 2008 : -- The financial crisis -- The new postcrisis environment -- Who is to blame? : Economists and the prevention of crises -- Part V. The industrial challenge : -- 13. Competition policy and industrial policy : -- What is the purpose of competition? -- Where does industrial policy fit in? -- 14. How digitization is changing everything : -- Platforms : guardians of the digital economy -- Two-sided markets -- A different business model : platforms as regulators -- The challenges two-sided markets pose for competition policy -- 15. Digital economies : the challenges for society : -- Trust -- Who owns data? -- Health care and risk -- The new forms of employment in the twenty-first century -- The digital economy and employment -- The tax system -- 16. Innovation and intellectual property : -- The imperative of innovation -- Intellectual property -- Managing royalty stacking -- The institutions of innovation -- Cooperative development and open source software -- And many other debates -- 17. Sector regulation : -- What's at stake -- A fourfold reform and its rationale -- Incentive regulation -- Prices of regulated companies -- Regulation of access to the network -- Competition and universal service -- Epilogue. |
Language Note: | In English, translated from the French. Translated from the French. |
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http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/i10919.pdf - Introduction available at publisher's Web-site