Revisiting Keynes: Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren - Paperback

by Lorenzo Pecchi (Editor), Gustavo Piga (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

Lorenzo Pecchi is Managing Director at UniCredit Markets and Investment Banking Division and Adjunct Professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Gustavo Piga is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Joseph Stiglitz, a 2001 Nobel Laureate, is University Professor at Columbia University.

Robert M. Solow is Institute Professor of Economics.

Edmund S. Phelps is McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia University and founder of Columbia's Center on Capitalism and Society. He was the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics.

Benjamin M. Friedman is William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and the author of The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.

David K. Levine is John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics at Washington University, St. Louis.

William J. Baumol is Professor of Economics at New York University and Director of the university's C. V. Starr Center for Applied Economics.