My Journeys in Economic Theory / / Edmund Phelps.

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 tell...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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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