- Hardcover: 268 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press (1 Jun 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198287828
- ISBN-13: 978-0198287827
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,820,959 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The book is fresh, provocative, well written, and well argued. I recommend it not only to financial and macro-economists, but to the larger economic community interested in the character and costs of business cycles. (Journal of Economic Literature )
[This] book, unique in its approach...offers an unusual combination of passionate advocacy with precise theoretical reasoning...this book will focus the attention of economists on the idea of constructing risk markets and probably recruit not a few to Schiller's active programme of market creation. (The Economic Journal economists ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
[This] book, unique in its approach...offers an unusual combination of passionate advocacy with precise theoretical reasoning...this book will focus the attention of economists on the idea of constructing risk markets and probably recruit not a few to Schiller's active programme of market creation. (The Economic Journal economists ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Great in theory...but we need a futures market for it to work properly
30 Dec 2007
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This is a very practical nuts-and-bolts "How to save the economic world". Macro institutions are neccessary to avoid various prisoner dilemma decision issues.
The UN, World Bank, IMF and a few others attempt to carry this mantle, and they do not really execute, and for the same reason - national interest always overides collective interests.
With regards to environmental issues, Shiller's proposals in this text would be quite good at addressing the current conflicts that exist in formulating an agreement.
In the end, however, the best voting and pricing machine is the market. If we price carbon in the marketplace and limit its release, market prices will reflect all known information about carbon.
The UN, World Bank, IMF and a few others attempt to carry this mantle, and they do not really execute, and for the same reason - national interest always overides collective interests.
With regards to environmental issues, Shiller's proposals in this text would be quite good at addressing the current conflicts that exist in formulating an agreement.
In the end, however, the best voting and pricing machine is the market. If we price carbon in the marketplace and limit its release, market prices will reflect all known information about carbon.
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