Many Possible Organizations … but Few Are Chosen And What Is Business’s Social Responsibility? The Governance and social Responsibility of Business The Market Has Many Defects That Must Be Corrected The Complementarity between the Market and the State and the Foundations of Liberalism Politicians or Technocrats? Reforming the State: The Example of France PART III AN INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE ECONOMY SIX The Interplay between Theory and Empirical Evidence The Microcosm of Academic Economics Economists: Foxes or Hedgehogs? The Role of Mathematics Game Theory and Information Theory An Economist at Work: Methodological Contributions FIVEĪn Agent Who Is Not Always Rational: Homo psychologicus Homo socialis Homo incitatus: The Counterproductive Effects of Rewards Homo juridicus: Law and Social Norms More Unexpected Lines of InquiryĦ5 66 70 76 78 80 80 91 101 104 109 118 122 123 137 141 147 149 The Economist as Public Intellectual The Pitfalls of Involvement in Society A Few Safeguards for an Essential Relationship From Theory to Economic Policy FOUR The Moral Limits of the Market or Market Failure? The Noncommercial and the Sacred The Market, a Threat to Social Cohesion? Inequality What Prevents Our Understanding Economics The Market and Other Ways of Managing Scarcity How to Make Economics Better Understood TWO Itinerary The Relationship between Society and Economics The Economist’s Profession Institutions A Window on Our World The Common Thread PR INCETON U NIV ERSIT Y PR ESS PR INCETON A ND OX FOR DĮnglish language copyright © 2017 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR Originally published in 2016 under the title Économie du bien commun © Presses Universitaires de France Jacket design by Chris Ferrante All Rights Reserved ISBN 978-6-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017945101 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Adobe Garamond Pro by T&T Productions Ltd, London Printed on acid-free paper ∞ Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Providing a rich account of how economics can benefit everyone, Economics for the Common Goodsets a new agenda for the role of economics in society. To show how economics can help us realize the common good, Tirole shares his insights on a broad array of questions affecting our everyday lives and the future of our society, including global warming, unemployment, the post-2008 global financial order, the Euro crisis, the digital revolution, innovation, and the proper balance between the free market and regulation. But Tirole says we urgently need economists to engage with the many challenges facing society, helping to identify our key objectives and the tools needed to meet them. The result is Economics for the Common Good, a passionate manifesto for a world in which economics, far from being a "dismal science," is a positive force for the common good.Įconomists are rewarded for writing technical papers in scholarly journals, not joining in public debates. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research.
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