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

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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