A firm-level perspective on the role of rents in the rise in inequality / Jason Furman and Peter Orszag -- Parents, children, and luck : equality of opportunity and equality of outcome / Ravi Kanbur -- The middle muddle : conceptualizing and measuring the global middle class / Arun Jayadev, Rahul Lahoti, and Sanjay Reddy -- Microeconomics -- Companies are seldom as good or as bad as they seem at the time / Gary Smith -- What's so special about two-sided markets? / Benjamin E. Hermalin and Michael L. Katz -- Missing money and missing markets : application to electricity markets / David Newbery -- Macroeconomics -- Thoughts on DSGE macroeconomics : matching the moment, but missing the point? / Anton Korinek -- The "Schumpeterian" and the "Keynesian" Stiglitz : learning, coordination hurdles, and growth trajectories / Giovanni Dosi and Maria Enrica Virgillito -- Deleterious effects of sustained deficit spending / Edmund Phelps -- The rediscovery of financial market imperfections / John C. Williams -- Ambiguity and international risk-sharing / Brian Hill and Tomasz Michalski -- Networks -- Use and abuse of network effects / Hal Varian -- Financial contagion revisited / Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale -- The economics of information and financial networks / Stefano Battiston -- Development -- Joseph Stiglitz and China's transition success / Justin Yifu Lin -- The sources of Chinese economic growth since 1978 / Lawrence J. Lau -- Knowledge as a global common and the crisis of the learning economy / Ugo Pagano -- Law and economics -- Conservatism and switcher's curse / Aaron Edlin -- The "inner logic" of institutional evolution : towards a theory of the relationship between formal and informal law / Antara Haldar -- Public policies -- Joe stiglitz and representative and equitable global governance / Jos? Antonio Ocampo -- The ghost budget: how America hid the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan / Linda J. Bilmes -- It works in practice, but would it work in theory? : Joseph Stiglitz's contribution to our understanding of income contingent loans / Bruce Chapman -- The public economics of long-term care / Pierre Piesteau and Gregory Ponthiere -- Jomo E. Stiglitz : Kenya's first nobel laureate in economics / Celestin Monga

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