In 100 years : leading economists predict the future / edited by Ignacio Palacios-Huerta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Forecasting.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Other Title:

In one hundred years

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book, ten prominent economists--including Nobel laureates and several likely laureates--offer their ideas about the world of the twenty-second century. In scenarios that range from the optimistic to the guardedly gloomy, these thinkers consider such topics as the transformation of work and wages, the continuing increase in inequality, the economic rise of China and India, the endlessly repeating cycle of crisis and (projected) recovery, the benefits of technology, the economic consequences of political extremism, and the long-range effects of climate change.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

The world our grandchildren will inherit / Daron Acemoglu

Through the darkness to a brighter future / Angus Deaton

The cone of uncertainty of the 21st century's economic hurricane / Avinash K. Dixit

Wealth and the self-protection society / Edward L. Glaeser

Keynes, his grandchildren and ours / Andreu Mas-Colell

American politics and global progress in the 21st century / John E. Roemer

In 100 years / Alvin E. Roth

The risks of the next century and their management / Robert J. Shiller

Stray thoughts on how it might go / Robert M. Solow

The geoengineered planet / Martin L. Weitzman

Notes

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-32009-6

0-262-32008-8

OCLC:

870646856