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经济理论上的百花齐放

Oct 26, 2009 Joseph E. Stiglitz , George Akerlof

布达佩斯——

近期爆发的经济和金融危机使得我们对经济学有了更深层次的反思，许多固有的理论模式遭到挑战。如果科学是用来预测未来的话，经济学并没有预测到本次危机的来临，这就更加引发我们的思考。

其实，经济学的流派远远比我们知道的要多。今年获得诺贝尔经济学奖的两位学者就是很好的例子。经济学派生出很多的思想，其中的一些派别就认为市场谈不上有效或是稳定，或者说，绝大多数经济学家使用的竞争平衡的标准模型不能很好地解释我们的经济和社会现象。

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Joseph E. Stiglitz

Writing for PS since 2001
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Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is University Professor at Columbia University and Chief Economist at the Roosevelt Institute. His most recent book is Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump.

George Akerlof

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George Akerlof, a Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book, co-authored with Rachel E. Kranton, is Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being.

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Walt French Aug 5, 2013

If markets are inherently unstable, why should we have much hope of sensible intervention? No matter how much experience we accumulate, a firebrand with a hot theory to sell should always be able to make a case, possibly even show conditions under which his approach “worked” in restoring “better” markets.

Myself, I'd prefer to see a bit more definition of how we trade off different aspects of “good” economies: growth, poverty levels, low-friction markets, …
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