Macro Markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society's Largest Economic Risks (Clarendon Lectures in Economics) - Softcover

Shiller, Robert J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198294182 ISBN 13: 9780198294184

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Arguing that we have largely inadequate financial markets, dealing with relatively small risks, Robert Shiller makes a unique set of proposals for marketizing the biggest economic risks faced by society today, risks that really matter to most people. The new markets could diminish the impact of international economic fluctuations and reduce the inequality of wealth. He proposes new international markets for claims on national incomes, on components and aggregates of national incomes, and for property such as real estate, and argues that these markets might dwarf our stock markets in their activity and significance. He challenges the widespread presumption that any such new market would be infeasible, by offering solutions to technical problems of measurement and settlement. There are proposals for implementing markets in perpetual claims and a substantial section on the construction of index numbers for use in settlement in the new markets.

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About the Author

Robert J. Shiller is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics.

Review

"[A] terrific book....Fresh, provocative, well written, and well argued. [Recommended] not only to financial and macro-economists, but to the larger economic community interested in the character and costs of business cycles."--Journal of Economic Literature

"The book, unique in its approach...offers an unusual combination of passionate advocacy with precise theoretical reasoning....This excellent book does more than provide a good treatment of some self-contained and specialized questions. It is also likely to initiate a research program. For what Shiller has done is to imagine a sometimes surprising and unfamiliar world in which risk-hedging and risk-spreading markets, while not necessarily complete, are at least a great deal more complete than they are at present."--The Economic Journal

"A brilliant new book that I highly recommend."--Peter L. Bernstein, Journal of Portfolio Management

"Fresh, provocative, well written, and well argued. I recommend it not only to financial and macro-economists, but to the larger economic community interested in the character and costs of business cycles."--Journal of Economic Literature

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0198294182
• ISBN 13: 9780198294184
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272