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Demographic Change and Long-Run Development

Edited by Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

ISBN: 9780262036627

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 20, 2017

Recent approaches to economic demography, investigating the effect of the transition to low mortality and low fertility on economic development.

Financial Innovation

Too Much or Too Little?

Edited by Michael Haliassos

ISBN: 9780262526722

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 29, 2014

Prominent economists consider the role of financial innovation in economic crises.

The Great Recession

Lessons for Central Bankers

Edited by Jacob Braude, Zvi Eckstein, Stanley Fischer and Karnit Flug

ISBN: 9780262526739

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 29, 2014

Experts assess the role of central banks in responding to the recent financial crisis and in preventing future crises.

The Empire of Value

A New Foundation for Economics

by André Orléan

Translated by M. B. DeBevoise

ISBN: 9780262026970

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 30, 2014

An argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful theory of market behavior.

The Clash of Generations

Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy

by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns

ISBN: 9780262526104

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 14, 2014

How America went bankrupt and how we can save ourselves—as a country and as individuals—from economic disaster.

Minimum Wages

by David Neumark and William L. Wascher

ISBN: 9780262515085

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 13, 2010

A comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labor market outcomes concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.

Revisiting Keynes

Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren

Edited by Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga

ISBN: 9780262515115

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 13, 2010

Leading economists revisit a provocative essay by John Maynard Keynes, debating Keynes's vision of growth, inequality, work, leisure, entrepreneurship, consumerism, and the search for happiness in the twenty-first century.