Foreword / Lawrence Summers -- Rights and dollars -- The case for the market -- Equality of income and opportunity -- Increasing equality in an efficient economy -- Further thoughts on equality and efficiency -- Notes -- Index

Building democracy in an emerging society : challenges of the welfare state in Brazil / Sonia Fleury -- Inequality, poverty and the Brazilian social protection system / Marcelo Medeiros, Sergei Soares, Pedro Souza and Rafael Osorio -- Growth and social policies : towards inclusive development /...

Soziale Ungleichheit und ökonomische Stagnation auf den freien Märkten sind die zentralen Probleme unserer Zeit. Die Lösung: den Markt endlich zügeln, oder? Die Querdenker Posner und Weyl stellen dieses Denken - und so ziemlich alles konventionelle Denken über Wirtschaft - buchstäblich auf...

"Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? [This book] turns this thinking--and pretty much all conventional thinking about markets, both for and against--on its head. The book reveals...new...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE. The Auction Will Set You Free -- FOREWORD -- Introduction. THE CRISIS OF THE LIBERAL ORDER -- 1. Property Is Monopoly -- 2. Radical Democracy -- 3. Uniting the World’s Workers -- 4. Dismembering the Octopus -- 5. Data as Labor --...

From the welfare state's origins in Europe, the idea of human welfare being organized through a civilized, institutionalized and uncorrupt state has caught the imagination of social activists and policy-makers around the world. This is particularly influential where rapid social development is...