Economics for the Common Good (eBook)

Jean Tirole (Autor)

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2017
576 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8914-3 (ISBN)

Infos

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in societyWhen Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The result is Economics for the Common Good, a passionate manifesto for a world in which economics, far from being a "e;dismal science,"e; is a positive force for the common good.Economists are rewarded for writing technical papers in scholarly journals, not joining in public debates. But Tirole says we urgently need economists to engage with the many challenges facing society, helping to identify our key objectives and the tools needed to meet them.To show how economics can help us realize the common good, Tirole shares his insights on a broad array of questions affecting our everyday lives and the future of our society, including global warming, unemployment, the post-2008 global financial order, the euro crisis, the digital revolution, innovation, and the proper balance between the free market and regulation.Providing a rich account of how economics can benefit everyone, Economics for the Common Good sets a new agenda for the role of economics in society.

Autor

Jean Tirole, the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, has been described as one of the most influential economists of our time. He is chairman of the Toulouse School of Economics and of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His many books include The Theory of Corporate Finance and Financial Crises, Liquidity, and the International Monetary System (both Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2017
• Übersetzer: Steven Rendall
• Zusatzinfo: 21 b/w illus. 5 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: asset • Auction • balance sheet • Bank • bank run • Bankruptcy • beneficiary • Carbon Tax • Central Bank • climate change • Commodity • Competition • Competition Law • Consideration • consumer • Creditor • Criticism • Currency • Customer • debt • Deposit account • deposit insurance • developed country • Economic Growth • Economic Life • Economic Policy • Economics • economist • economy • Emissions Trading • Employment • Entrepreneurship • European Debt Crisis • Expense • Externality • Finance • Financial Crisis • Financial crisis of 2007–08 • Financial institution • Financial Services • Fiscal Policy • Funding • global warming • Governance • Government bond • Government Debt • Incentive • income • Industrial Policy • Information asymmetry • Infrastructure • Institution • insurance • insurance policy • Intellectual Property • Interest Rate • Investment • Investor • Market Economy • Market Failure • market liquidity • Market Price • Moral Hazard • Norm (social) • Payment • Political Science • Politician • pollution • Pricing • private sector • Profession • Provision (accounting) • Public Finance • Public Policy • Public sector • purchasing power • Rational Choice Theory • Recession • Regulation • Remuneration • Reputation • Requirement • salary • saving • Self-Interest • Shareholder • shortage • Social Science • Stock Market • Subsidy • Supervisor • Supply and Demand • Supply (economics) • Tax • Taxpayer • Technology • Uncertainty • Unemployment • Wealth • welfare
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8914-6 / 1400889146
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8914-3 / 9781400889143