Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series – serie
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11 produkter
Creating a Learning Society
A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Av Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce Greenwald
Inbunden, 2014
380 kr
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It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In …
The Arrow Impossibility Theorem
Inbunden, 2014
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
311 kr
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Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and …
Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles
Inbunden, 2014
182 kr
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As long as there have been financial markets, there have been bubbles-those moments in which asset prices inflate far beyond their intrinsic value, often with ruinous results. Yet economists are slow to agree on the underlying forces behind these events. In this book Jose A. Scheinkman offers new …
Moral Hazard in Health Insurance
Inbunden, 2014
227 kr
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Moral hazard-the tendency to change behavior when the cost of that behavior will be borne by others-is a particularly tricky question when considering health care. Kenneth J. Arrow's seminal 1963 paper on this topic (included in this volume) was one of the first to explore the implication of moral …
Ethical Asset Valuation and the Good Society
Inbunden, 2017
348 kr
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For all of their focus on asset prices, financial economists rarely ask if assets are priced ethically-that is, if their prices are compatible with the public good. Yet in a world facing major, possibly catastrophic problems-global warming, for instance, and growing inequality-it is now more …
Creating a Learning Society
A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
Av Joseph E. Stiglitz, Bruce Greenwald
Häftad, 2015
246 kr
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Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living have been the result of learning how to learn, and it explains how …
Discovering Prices
Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints
Av Paul Milgrom
Inbunden, 2017
886 kr
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Traditional economic theory studies idealized markets in which prices alone can guide efficient allocation, with no need for central organization. Such models build from Adam Smith's famous concept of an invisible hand, which guides markets and renders regulation or interference largely …
Discovering Prices
Auction Design in Markets with Complex Constraints
Av Paul Milgrom
Häftad, 2021
227 kr
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Traditional economic theory studies idealized markets in which prices alone can guide efficient allocation, with no need for central organization. Such models build from Adam Smith’s famous concept of an invisible hand, which guides markets and renders regulation or interference largely …
Arguing About Tastes
Modeling How Context and Experience Change Economic Preferences
Av David Kreps
Inbunden, 2023
906 kr
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Mainstream economics considers individual preferences to be fixed and unchanging. Although psychologists and other social scientists explore how tastes are formed, influenced, and evolve, it is not considered “proper” in orthodox economics to do so. Arguing About Tastes makes the case that …
Arguing About Tastes
Modeling How Context and Experience Change Economic Preferences
Av David Kreps
Häftad, 2023
253 kr
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Mainstream economics considers individual preferences to be fixed and unchanging. Although psychologists and other social scientists explore how tastes are formed, influenced, and evolve, it is not considered “proper” in orthodox economics to do so. Arguing About Tastes makes the case that …
Time and the Generations
Population Ethics for a Diminishing Planet
Inbunden, 2019
271 kr
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How should we evaluate the ethics of procreation, especially the environmental consequences of reproductive decisions on future generations, in a resource-constrained world? While demographers, moral philosophers, and environmental scientists have separately discussed the implications of population …
