Fruitful Economics

This volume is both a tribute to and study of the French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi. Fitoussi's pluralistic scholarship has shaped modern macroeconomics, political economy, economics of inequality and, more recently, the economics of sustainability.

Autorentext
Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University, USA Jacques Le Cacheux, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France Jean-Paul Fitoussi, The Institute for New Economic Thinking Éloi Laurent, Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques, France Edmund Phelps, Columbia University, USA Amartya Sen, Harvard University, USA Robert Solow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University, USA

Inhalt
Introduction: Fitoussi's fruitful economics; Eloi Laurent and Jacques Le Cacheux I. Reconstructing Macro-economic Theory to Manage Economic Policy; Joseph Stiglitz Response by Jean-Paul Fitoussi II. Undemocratic and Unequal: Fitoussi's Critique of Europe's Institutions; Edmund Phelps Response by Jean-Paul Fitoussi III. Thinking about Sustainability à la façon de Fitoussi; Robert Solow Response by Jean-Paul Fitoussi IV. The Measurement of the Economic World; Kenneth Arrow Response by Jean-Paul Fitoussi Conclusion: The leadership of Jean-Paul Fitoussi; Amartya Sen