The Economists' Voice : : Top Economists Take On Today's Problems / / ed. by Joseph E. Stiglitz, J. Bradford DeLong, Aaron S. Edlin.

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• MitwirkendeR: Arrow, Kenneth J.,; Baker, Dean,; Barder, Owen,; Barrow, Lisa,; Becker, Gary S.,; Bergmann, Barbara R.,; Blank, Rebecca M.,; Boskin, Michael J.,; Currie, Janet,; DeLong, J. Bradford,; Donohue, John,; Edlin, Aaron S.,; Farrell, Diana,; Feldstein, Martin,; Frank, Robert H.,; Frey, Bruno S.,; Fullerton, Don,; Geruso, Michael,; Glaeser, Edward L.,; Graetz, Michael J.,; Jaffee, Dwight M.,; Kremer, Michael,; Krugman, Paul,; Lazear, Edward P.,; McKinnon, Ronald I.,; Olmstead, Sheila M.,; Posner, Richard A.,; Rouse, Cecilia Elena,; Rubin, Paul H.,; Schelling, Thomas C.,; Shiller, Robert J.,; Stavins, Robert N.,; Stiglitz, Joseph E.,; Wallsten, Scott,; Williams, Heidi,; Wolfers, Justin J.,
• HerausgeberIn: DeLong, J. Bradford,; Edlin, Aaron S.,; Stiglitz, Joseph E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I: Global Warming -- 1. Climate Change: The Uncertainties, the Certainties, and What They Imply About Action -- 2. Global Climate Change: A Challenge to Policy -- 3. A New Agenda for Global Warming -- 4. A Meaningful Second Commitment Period for the Kyoto Protocol -- Part II: The International Economy -- 5. Divergent Views on the Coming Dollar Crisis -- 6. U.S. Offshoring: Small Steps to Make It Win- Win -- 7. Advance Market Commitments: How to Stimulate Investment in Vaccines for Neglected Diseases -- 8. Should We Still Support Untrammeled International Capital Mobility? Or Are Capital Controls Less Evil Than We Once Believed? -- Part III: Economics of the Iraq War -- 9. The Economic Cost of the Iraq War -- 10. The High Cost of the Iraq War -- Part IV: Fiscal Policy -- 11. Sense and Nonsense About Federal Deficits and Debt -- 12. Government Deficits and the Deindustrialization of America -- 13. Confusions About Social Security -- 14. The Many Definitions of Social Security Privatization -- 15. The Virtues of Personal Accounts for Social Security -- 16. Could Social Security Go Broke? -- Part VI: Tax Reform -- 17. A Broader Perspective on the Tax Reform Debate -- 18. Tax Reform: Time for a Plan C? -- 19. Taxes on Investment Income Remain Too High and Lead to Multiple Distortions -- 20. Progressive Consumption Taxation as a Remedy for the U.S. Savings Shortfall -- Part VII: Social Policy -- 21. Was Welfare Reform Successful? -- 22. Cutting the Safety Net One Strand at a Time -- 23. The Choose- Your- Charity Tax: A Way to Incentivize Greater Giving -- 24. Should the Government Rebuild New Orleans or Just Give Residents Checks? -- 25. Does College Still Pay? -- 26. How to Deal with Terrorism -- Part VIII: The Death Penalty -- 27. The Economics of Capital Punishment -- 28. On the Economics of Capital Punishment -- 29. The Death Penalty: No Evidence for Deterrence -- 30. Reply to Donohue and Wolfers on the Death Penalty and Deterrence -- 31. Letter: A Reply to Rubin on the Death Penalty -- 32. Reply: The Death Penalty Once More -- Part IX: Real Estate -- 33. Long- Term Perspectives on the Current Boom in Home Prices -- 34. The Menace of an Unchecked Housing Bubble -- 35. What to Do About Fannie and Freddie? -- Index