Pluralist Economics Review the best of free-access economics November 2007

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Articles

• The Missing Motivation in Macroeconomics, George A. Akerlof
• Model Building versus Theorizing: The Paucity of Theory in the Journal of Economic Theory, Daniel B. Klein and Pedro P. Romero
• Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937, Wojciech Kopczuk, Emmanuel Saez and Jae Song
• The American Family and Family Economics, Shelly Lundberg and Robert A. Pollak
• Growing Inequality in the Neo-liberal Heartland, George Irvin
• The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer, N. Gregory Mankiw
• The U.S. Economy: What’s Next?, Wynne Godley, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, and Gennaro Zezza
• How Well Off Are America’s Elderly? A New Perspective, Edward N. Wolff and Ajit Zacharias
• The Causes and Consequences of Wal-Mart’s Growth, Emek Basker
• Hedge Funds: Past, Present and Future, René M. Stulz
• Introducing Incentives in the Market for Live and Cadaveric Organ Donations, Gary S. Becker and Julio Jorge Elíasb
• Learning From Schelling's 'Strategy Of Conflict’, Roger B. Myerson
• On the Fundamental Theorems of General Equilibrium, Eric S. Maskin and Kevin W. S. Roberts

Shorter Articles

• Science, ideology and development: Is there a ‘Sustainability Economics’?, Peter Söderbaum
• Ten Principles of Feminist Economics: A Modestly Proposed Antidote, Geoff Schneider and Jean Shackelford
• An orientation for a green economics?, Tony Lawson
• What Industries Does Multiple-Equilibrium Trade Theory Recommend?, Ian Fletcher

Articles You May Have Missed

• Let There Be Markets: The evangelical roots of economics , Gordon Bigelow
• Small is dangerous? Schumacher, science, and social development, Cowan Coventry
• The Social Science Citation Index: A Black Box—with an Ideological Bias?, Daniel B. Klein with Eric Chiang
• What Has Happened to the Theory of Games?, Leonid Hurwicz

The Economy

• The U.S. Economy: What’s Next?, Wynne Godley, Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, and Gennaro Zezza
• Will There Be a Dolar Crisis?,  Paul Krugman
• The Bubble Economy, Rober Kuttner
• The financial crisis: burst bubble, frayed model, Robert Wade

Economics in the News

• The New Bipartisan Capitalism, Daniel Morris, The Nation
• Hip Heterodoxy:, Thomas Palley, Julie Nelson, James Galbraith, Brad DeLong and others, TPM Café Debate
• In Economics Departments, a Growing Will to Debate Fundamental Assumptions, Patricia Cohen, NYT
• Who You Calling Heterodox?, Andy Guess, Inside Higher Ed
• Solidarity No More?, Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed
• American trio wins 2007 Nobel for economics, Reuters
• Excerpts from the citation of the 2007 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, Herald Tribune

Viewpoints

• One Answer to Global Warming: A New Tax, N. Gregory Mankiw
• Prizes, not patents, Joseph E. Stiglitz
• How to pay for a free press, André Schiffrin
• Growth isn’t working, D. Woodward and A. Simms
• Why Not Shift the Burden to Big Spenders?, by Robert Frank
• Should We Aspire to a High Score for ‘Economic Freedom’? Margaret Legum
• The Entertainment Industry Police Crackdown, Dean Baker

Reviews

• Creative Destruction vs. the New Industrial State, Deirdre McCloskey
• Is Economics Really All It Claims To Be?, CFED
• Reintroducing Macroeconomics: A Critical Approach, reviewed by Ryan A Dodd

Obituaries

• Galbraith’s lessons in death, Evan Jones
• Milton Friedman, Financial Times
• Milton Friedman, Workers Online

Economists’ Blogs

• Dean Baker
• Brad DeLong
• Paul Krugman
• Greg Mankiw
• Mark Thoma
• Dani Rodrik
• Naked Capitalism
• Vox

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