Confronting Inequality - How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth

A propos de l'auteur

Jonathan D. Ostry is Deputy Director of the Research Department (RES) at the International Monetary Fund. He is the author and editor of a number of books on international macro policy issues, and numerous articles in scholarly journals, including Capital Controls, with Atish Ghosh and Mahvash Qureshi (eds.)(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) and Exercises in Intertemporal Open Economy Macroeconomics, Second Edition, with Thomas Krueger and Chi-Wa Yuen (MIT Press, 1996).Prakash Loungani is an advisor in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Research Department and an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University's Owen School of Management and Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Loungani has over 60 published works and has researched topics such as: assessment of macroeconomic forecasting performance; understanding trade linkages among nations and regions; and modeling the impact of oil prices on the macroeconomy.Andrew Berg is deputy director of the International Monetary Fund's Institute for Capacity Development and adjunct professorial lecturer at American University. His work has appeared in South African Journal of Economics, Pacific Economic Review, Open Economies Review, and elsewhere

Résumé

Three International Monetary Fund economists show that the increase in inequality has been a political choice—and explain what policies we should choose instead to achieve a more inclusive economy. Confronting Inequality is a rigorous and empirically rich book that is crucial for a time when many fear a new Gilded Age.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Andre Berg, Andrew Berg, Berg Andrew, Prakash Loungani, Loungani Prakash, Jonathan D. Ostry, Joseph Stiglitz
• Collaboration: Joseph Stiglitz (Préface), Stiglitz Joseph E. (Préface)
• Edition: Columbia University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 22.01.2019
• EAN: 9780231174695
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17469-5
• Pages: 192
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 225 mm x 15 mm
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Economic theory & philosophy, economic growth, Economic theory and philosophy