My Journeys in Economic Theory / / Edmund Phelps.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Phelps, Edmund,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Edmund Phelps is among the most important economists of his generation. He developed a new understanding of unemployment and inflation and went on to rethink the roots of innovation. His work represents a lifelong project to put “people as we know them” into economic theory.In this book, Phelps tells the story of his role in reshaping economic theory, offering a powerful personal account of a creative and rewarding career. My Journeys in Economic Theory charts two major phases of Phelps’s work, illuminating the breadth of his contributions to the field. First, introducing the expectations of wage setters and co-founding the “equilibrium” rate of unemployment, he built the microeconomic foundations for the employment theory introduced by Keynes and Hicks. More recently, he conceived a theory of “mass flourishing” superseding Schumpeter and Solow’s analysis of growth— a theory in which individuals’ creativity and society’s dynamism fuel both grassroots innovation and job satisfaction.Phelps recounts his vivid experiences in the world of economics—fierce arguments, competition and collaboration, and the good fortune of time spent among some great figures—as well as his relationships with other luminaries such as John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, Paul Samuelson, and Paul Volcker. At its core, this book shares the joy of intellectual achievement: the excitement of coming up with a new idea that radically departs from prevailing views and the satisfaction of exercising one’s own ingenuity instead of applying or developing others’ models. Telling the story of a life packed with intellectual adventure, My Journeys in Economic Theory offers a profound vision of a dynamic, modern economy that delivers lives rich with creativity and meaning.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION Formative Years -- 1 BEGINNING MY CAREER Golden Rule of Saving and Public Debt -- 2 A NEW DIRECTION Uncertainty and Expectations -- 3 UNEMPLOYMENT, WORK’S REWARDS, AND JOB DISCRIMINATION -- 4 ALTRUISM AND RAWLSIAN JUSTICE -- 5 SUPPLY-SIDERS, “NEW CLASSICALS” AND AN UN-KEYNESIAN SLUMP -- 6 A REVOLUTIONARY DECADE -- 7 A FESTSCHRIFT, A NOBEL, AND A NEW HORIZON -- 8 THE GREAT WAVE OF INDIGENOUS INNOVATION, MEANINGFUL WORK, AND THE GOOD LIFE -- EPILOGUE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INDEX