21st Century Economics

Economics is a science that can contribute substantial powerful and fresh insights! This book collects essays by leading academics that evaluate the scholarly importance of contemporary economic ideas and concepts, thus providing valuable knowledge about the present state of economics and its progress. This compilation of short essays helps readers interested in economics to identify 21st century economic ideas that should be read and remembered. The authors state their personal opinion on what matters most in contemporary economics and reveal its fascinating and creative sides.

Identifies the most important contributions to economics in the 21st century, recommended by leading scholars from all over the world Provides leading scholars' personal evaluations of the progress in economics Offers exceptional insights into fresh and powerful economic ideas

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Bruno S. Frey is a Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and Research Director at CREMA Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland. Before that he was a Professor at the Universities of Konstanz, Zurich, Chicago, Warwick and Friedrichshafen. He has been awarded five Honorary Doctorates in five countries. Frey has published 23 books and more than 600 articles in scholarly journals. Christoph A. Schaltegger has been a Professor of Political Economics at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, since 2010 and dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management since 2016. He also teaches public finance at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he serves as a director of the Institute of Public Finance and Fiscal Law (IFF). In spring 2009 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.

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Economics is a science that can contribute substantial powerful and fresh insights! This book collects essays by leading academics that evaluate the scholarly importance of contemporary economic ideas and concepts, thus providing valuable knowledge about the present state of economics and its progress. This compilation of short essays helps readers interested in economics to identify 21st century economic ideas that should be read and remembered. The authors state their personal opinion on what matters most in contemporary economics and reveal its fascinating and creative sides.

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Introduction (Bruno S. Frey and Christoph A. Schaltegger).- Christine Benesch recommends Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion by Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke (Christine Bensch).- Matthias Benz recommends The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India by Tim Besley and Robin Burgess (Matthias Benz).- Aleksander Berentsen recommends Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto (Aleksander Berentsen).- Thomas Bernauer recommends Tracking the Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy by Mathis Wackernagel et al. (Thomas Bernauer).- Peter Bernholz recommends Redesigning Democracy: More Ideas for Better Rules by Hans Gersbach (Peter Bernholz).- Norbert Berthold recommends The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility by Gregory Clark (Norbert Berthold).- Urs Birchler recommends Why Every Economist Should Learn Some AuctionTheory by Paul Klemperer (Urs Bichler).- Luigino Bruni recommends The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen (Luigino Bruni).- Monika Bütler recommends The Economic Importance of Financial Literacy: Theory and Evidence by Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell (Monika Bütler).- Peter Cauwels recommends Critical Transitions in Nature and Society by Marten Scheffer (Peter Cauwels).- Sir Paul Collier recommends Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being by George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton (Sir Paul Collier).- Reto Cueni recommends Too much Finance? by Jean Louis Arcand, Enrico Berkes and Ugo Panizza (Reto Cueni).- Jakob de Haan recommends Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson (Jakob de Haan).- Reiner Eichenberger recommends Self-Interest through Delegation: An Additional Rationale for the Principal-Agent Relationship by John Hamman, George Loewenstein and Roberto Weber (Reiner Eichenberger).- Lars P. Feld recommends Happiness, Economy and Institutions by Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (Lars P. Feld).- Reto Foellmi recommends Firms in International Trade by Andrew B. Bernard et al. (Reto Foellmi).- Nicolai J. Foss recommends Economics and Identity by George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton (Nicolai J. Foss).- Bruno S. Frey recommends Mindful Economics: The Production, Consumption, and Value of Beliefs by Roland Bénabou and Jean Tirole (Bruno S. Frey).- Jetta Frost recommends Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms by Elinor Ostrom (Jetta Frost).- Clemens Fuest recommends Yes, Economics Is a Science by Raj Chetty (Clemens Fuest).- Allan Guggenbühl recommends Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall (Allan Guggenbühl).- Jochen Hartwig recommends In It Together: Why Less Inequality Benefits All by OECD (Jochen Hartwig).- Jürg Helblingrecommends Capital in the 20th Century by Thomas Piketty (Jürg Helbling).- Sir David F. Hendry recommends An Analysis of the Indicator Saturation Estimator as a Robust Regression Estimator by Søren Johansen and Bent Nielsen (Sir David F. Hendry).- Gerard Hertig recommends Legal Origins by Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer (Gerard Hertig).- Bruno Heyndels recommends Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden by Timothy Besley et al. 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