Markets, Information and Uncertainty: Essays in Economic Theory in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521553555 ISBN 13: 9780521553551

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

Markets, Information and Uncertainty is a collection of essays by leading theorists offering powerful new insights on the role of uncertainty and information in today's market. This book features Kenneth Arrow on information and the organization of industry, Roy Radner on new technologies, Graciela Chichilnisky and Frank Hahn on human-induced uncertainty, Geoffrey Heal and Walter Heller on the creation of new markets and Edmund Phelps on unemployment. It is an authoritative collection offering imaginative and fresh approaches to economic theory.

About this title

About the Author:

Graciela Chichilnisky holds the UNESCO Chair in Mathematics and Economics and is professor of statistics at Columbia University, where she is the director of the Program on Information and Resources and its Center for Risk Management. She introduced and developed the concept of "basic needs" and is the author of eleven books and some 180 scientific articles.

Geoffrey Heal is Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility and professor of economics and finance of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. A past president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, he is the author of many scientific articles and thirteen books, including "Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources; Valuing the Future: Economic Theory and Sustainability;" and "Nature and the Marketplace."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0521553555
• ISBN 13: 9780521553551
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Chichilnisky Graciela