Joseph Stiglitz

The Origins of Inequality

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Produktbeschreibung

This book gathers together and extends to new frontiers Joseph Stiglitz's lifelong work, drawing upon the challenges and insights of each of these phases of his career.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 912
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 171mm
• ISBN-13: 9780198799597
• ISBN-10: 0198799594
• Artikelnr.: 71962857

Autorenporträt

Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. A recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the John Bates Clark Medal (1979), he is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the (US president's) Council of Economic Advisers. In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001 and received that university's highest academic rank (university professor) in 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I. Broader Perspectives
* 1: A Rigged Economy and What We Can Do About It
* 2: The Origins of Inequality, and Policies to Contain It
* 3: Inequality and Economic Growth
* 4: Alternative Theories of Inequality: Historical and Theoretical
Perspectives
* 5: Rewriting the Rules of the Economy and the Shaping of American
Inequality
* 6: Wealth and Income Distribution: New Theories Needed for a New Era
* 7: Eliminating Extreme Inequality: A Sustainable Development Goal
* Part II. The Basic Theory
* 8: Distribution of Income and Wealth Among Individuals
* 9: Intergenerational Transfers and Inequality
* 10: Explaining the New Stylized Facts of Growth and Distribution
* 11: Generalizing the Basic Model: Inequalities in Equilibrium Wealth
Among Individuals with Heterogeneous Abilities and General
Intertemporal Preferences
* 12: Equilibrium Income and Wealth Distributions: Balancing
Centrifugal and Centripetal forces
* 13: The Role of Life Cycle Savings vs. Inherited Savings
* 14: The Role of Land and Credit in Creating Wealth Inequality
* 15: The Role of Credit and the Financial System in Creating Wealth
Inequality
* 16: Monopoly, Rents, and Political Equilibrium
* 17: Distribution and Innovation (or inequality and innovation)
* 18: The Future of Inequality: Artificial Intelligence,
Worker-Replacing Technological Progress and Income Distribution
* 19: Pareto Efficient Taxation and Expenditures: Pre- and
Re-distribution
* Part III. Earlier Contributions
* 20: Some Further Results on the Measurement of Inequality
* 21: Simple Formulae for the Measurement of Inequality and the Optimal
Linear Income Tax
* 22: Dynastic Inequality, Mobility and Equality of Opportunity
* 23: Reflections on Mobility and Social Justice, Economic Efficiency,
and Individual Responsibility
* 24: Remarks on Inequality, Agency Costs, and Economic Efficiency
* 25: Credit Rationing, Tenancy, Productivity and the Dynamics of
Inequality
* 26: Landlords, Tenants and Technological Innovations
* 27: Inequality and Growth
* 28: A Two-Sector, Two Class Model of Economic Growth
* 29: Capital, Wages and Structural Unemployment
* 30: Inequality and the Business Cycle
* 31: Macroeconomic Fluctuations, Inequality, and Growth
* 32: Notes on Estate Taxes, Redistribution and the Concept of Balanced
Growth Path Incidence
* 33: Equality, Taxation, and Inheritance
* 34: Approaches to the Economics of Discrimination
* 35: Theories of Discrimination and Economic Policy
* 36: Inequality and Taxation
* 37: The Welfare State in the Twenty First Century