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The new financial order : risk in the 21st century / Robert J. Shiller.

Title: The new financial order : risk in the 21st century / Robert J. Shiller.
Author: Shiller, Robert J.
Publication: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2003.
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Description

xvi, 366 p.; 24 cm.

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Contents

Introduction: The Promise of Economic Security -- Pt. 1. Economic Risks in an Advancing World -- 1. What the World Might Have Looked Like since 1950 -- 2. The Hidden Problem of Economic Risk -- 3. Why New Technology Creates Risks -- 4. Forty Thieves: The Many Kinds of Economic Risks -- Pt. 2. How Science and Technology Create New Opportunities in Finance -- 5. New Information Technology Applied to Risk Management -- 6. The Science of Psychology Applied to Risk Management -- 7. The Nature of Invention in Finance -- Pt. 3. Six Ideas for a New Financial Order -- 8. Insurance for Livelihoods and Home Values -- 9. Macro Markets: Trading the Biggest Risks -- 10. Income-Linked Loans: Reducing the Risks of Hardship and Bankruptcy -- 11. Inequality Insurance: Protecting the Distribution of Income -- 12. Intergenerational Social Security: Sharing Risks between Young and Old -- 13. International Agreements for Risk Control --
Pt. 4. Deploying the New Financial Order -- 14. Global Risk Information Databases -- 15. New Units of Measurement and Electronic Money -- 16. Making the Ideas Work: Research and Advocacy -- Pt. 5. The New Financial Order as a Continuation of a Historical Process -- 17. Lessons from Major Financial Inventions -- 18. Lessons from Major Social Insurance Inventions -- Epilogue: A Model of Radical Financial Innovation.

ISBN

0691091722 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002042563

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Columbia University Libraries