The economists' voice 2.0 : the financial crisis, health care reform, and more / Aaron Edlin, Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edlin, Aaron, editor.

Stiglitz, Joseph E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--United States.

Economics.

United States--Economic conditions--2009-.

United States--Economic policy--2009-.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Economics--United States.

Economics.

United States--Economic conditions--2009-.

United States--Economic policy--2009-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Other Title:

Economists' voice.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Economists' Voice: Top Economists Take On Today's Problems featured a core collection of accessible, timely essays on the challenges facing today's global markets and financial institutions. The Economists' Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More is the next installment in this popular series, gathering together the strongest essays published in The Economist's Voice, a nonpartisan online journal, so that students and general readers can gain a deeper understanding of the financial developments shaping their world. This collection contains thirty-two essays written by academics, economists, presidential advisors, legal specialists, researchers, consultants, and policy makers. They tackle the plain economics and architecture of health care reform, its implications for society and the future of the health insurance industry, and the value of the health insurance subsidies and exchanges built into the law. They consider the effects of financial regulatory reform, the possibilities for ratings reform, and the issue of limiting bankers' pay. An objective examination of the financial crisis and bank bailouts results in two indispensable essays on investment banking regulation after Bear Stearns and the positives and negatives of the Paulson/Bernanke bailout. Contributors weigh the merits of future rescues and suggest alternative strategies for addressing the next financial crisis. A final section examines a unique array of topics: the stability of pension security bonds; the value of a carbon tax, especially in fostering economic and environmental sustainability; the counterintuitive perils of net neutrality; the unforeseen consequences of government debt; the meaning of the Google book search settlement; and the unexploited possibilities for profit in NFL overtime games.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Part I: Health Care Reform

1. The Health Care Reform Legislation: An Overview / White, Chapin

2. The Simple Economics of Health Reform / Cutler, David M.

3. The Economics, Opportunities, and Challenges of Health Insurance Exchanges / Duggan, Mark G. / Kocher, Robert

4. Can the ACA Improve Population Health? / Goldman, Dana P. / Lakdawalla, Darius N.

5. Systemic Reform of Health Care Delivery and Payment / Aaron, Henry J.

6. How Stable Are Insurance Subsidies in Health Reform? / Pauly, Mark V.

Part II: Financial Market Regulatory Reform

7. Financial Regulatory Reform: The Politics of Denial / Posner, Richard A.

8. Government Guarantees: Why the Genie Needs to Be Put Back in the Bottle / Acharya, Viral V. / Richardson, Matthew

9. How Little We Know: The Challenges of Financial Reform / Roberts, Russell

10. Finding the Sweet Spot for Effective Regulation / Hubbard, R. Glenn

11. A Recipe for Ratings Reform / Calomiris, Charles W.

12. Should Banker Pay Be Regulated? / Kaplan, Steven N.

13. Fixing Bankers' Pay / Bebchuk, Lucian A.

14. It Works for Mergers, Why Not for Finance? / Edlin, Aaron S. / Gilbert, Richard J.

Part III: Financial Crisis and Bailouts

15. Hedge Fund Wizards / Foster, Dean P. / Young, H. Peyton

16. Investment Banking Regulation After Bear Stearns / Jaffee, Dwight M. / Perlow, Mark

17. Why Paulson Is Wrong / Zingales, Luigi

18. Dr. StrangeLoan: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Financial Collapse / Edlin, Aaron S.

19. Questioning the Treasury's 00 Billion Blank Check: An Open Letter to Secretary Paulson / Edlin, Aaron S.

20. Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan / Ausubel, Lawrence M. / Cramton, Peter

21. A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis / Bebchuk, Lucian A.

22. Please Think This Over / Leamer, Edward E.

23. Is Macroeconomics Off Track? / Mulligan, Casey B.

24. If It Were a Fight, They Would Have Stopped It in December of 2008 / Barbera, Robert J.

25. Comment on Barbera: Your Gift Will Make You Rich / Mulligan, Casey B.

Part IV: Innovations in Policy and Business

26. Pension Security Bonds: A New Plan to Address the State Pension Crisis / Rauh, Joshua / Novy-Marx, Robert

27. Carbon Taxes to Move Toward Fiscal Sustainability / Nordhaus, William D.

28. Net Neutrality Is Bad Broadband Regulation / Litan, Robert E. / Singer, Hal J.

29. Trills Instead of T-Bills: It's Time to Replace Part of Government Debt with Shares in GDP / Kamstra, Mark J. / Shiller, Robert J.

30. The Google Book Settlement: Real Magic or a Trick? / Samuelson, Pamela

31. The Stakes in the Google Book Search Settlement / Courant, Paul N.

32. The NFL Should Auction Possession in Overtime Games / Che, Yeon-Koo / Hendershott, Terrence

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231504324

0231504322

OCLC:

818856761