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The Economic Crisis and the State of Economics

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Robert Skidelsky

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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  2. Christian Westerlind Wigström

    1. University of Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Robert Skidelsky, Christian Westerlind Wigström
      Pages 1-9

  3. Risk and Uncertainty in Economics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Risk and Uncertainty

      • Paul Davidson
      Pages 13-29

    3. Lessons from Statistical Finance

      • Marc Potters
      Pages 31-42

    4. Ambiguity and Economic Activity: Implications for the Current Crisis in Credit Markets

      • Sujoy Mukerji
      Pages 43-50

  4. Macro-Economics and the Current Crisis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Macro-Economic Failures

      • Charles Goodhart
      Pages 53-59

    3. Hayek: Another Perspective

      • Meghnad Desai
      Pages 61-66

    4. Globalization and the Current Crisis

      • Christopher Bliss
      Pages 67-81

    5. Global Imbalances

      • Vijay Joshi
      Pages 83-88

  5. Models, Metaphors, and Morals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Knowledge in Economics

      • John Kay
      Pages 91-100

    3. Models and Metaphors

      • Richard Bronk
      Pages 101-109

    4. Economics and Morals

      • Edward Skidelsky
      Pages 111-118

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 119-123
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The Economic Crisis and the State of Economics brings together leading economists from a diverse set of backgrounds and presents their take on how economics can explain the current crisis but also how the crisis will affect economic thought.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Robert Skidelsky

  • University of Oxford, UK

    Christian Westerlind Wigström

About the editors


ROBERT SKIDELSKY is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations for his three-volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes.
 
CHRISTIAN WESTERLIND WIGSTROM is a graduate student of philosophy at Merton College, Oxford, UK.

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