Working Papers

The CCS Working Papers series is a platform for preliminary research papers and other unpublished documents taking up the economics of capitalism and its social effects, written by members and affiliates of the Center on Capitalism and Society. Submission of such materials is restricted to members and affiliates of the Center.

2010

• Seeds of Recovery After The Financial Crisis
  Edmund S. Phelps
  CCS Working Paper No. 53, January 2010

2009

• Presentation at the 7th Annual Conference of the CCS
  Josef Ackermann
  CCS Working Paper No. 52, December 2009

• Presentation at the 7th Annual Conference of the CCS
  Hans-Werner Sinn
  CCS Working Paper No. 51, December 2009
   
• Presentation at the 7th Annual Conference of the CCS
  Stefano Scarpetta
  CCS Working Paper No. 50, December 2009
   
• Presentation at the 7th Annual Conference of the CCS
  Howard Davies
  CCS Working Paper No. 49, December 2009
   
• The Radicalism of Phelpsian Good Economy
  Esa Saarinen and Peter Kenttä
  CCS Working Paper No. 48, November 2009
   
• Presentation at CCS's Special Conference: Peace Through Reconstruction
  Graciana del Castillo
  CCS Working Paper No. 47, October 2009
   
• Presentation at CCS's Special Conference: Peace Through Reconstruction
  Herman Schaper
  CCS Working Paper No. 46, October 2009
   
• Presentation at CCS's Special Conference: Peace Through Reconstruction
  M. Ishaq Nadiri
  CCS Working Paper No. 45, October 2009
   
• Presentation at CCS's Special Conference: Peace Through Reconstruction
  Roger Myerson
  CCS Working Paper No. 44, October 2009
   
• Capitalism As A Mixed Economic System
  Richard R. Nelson
  CCS Working Paper No.43, September 2009
   
• Climate Change, the Knowledge Problem and the Good Life
  Edmund S. Phelps and Saifedean Ammous
  CCS Working Paper No.42, September 2009
   
• Innovation and Morality in Economics
  Edmund S. Phelps
  CCS Working Paper No.41, August 2009
   
• Liberating Leadership: How The Initiative-Freeing Radical Organizational Form Has Been Successfully Adopted
  Isaac Getz
  CCS Working Paper No.40, August 2009
  
  
• An Accident Waiting to Happen
  Amar Bhidé
  CCS Working Paper No.39, May 2009

•      Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the CCS
  Guillermo de la Dehesa
  CCS Working Paper No.38, February 2009

• Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the CCS
  Roman Frydman and Michael D. Goldberg
  CCS Working Paper No.37, February 2009

• Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the CCS
  Josef Ackermann
  CCS Working Paper No.36, February 2009

• Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the CCS
  Edmund S. Phelps
  CCS Working Paper No.35, February 2009

• Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the CCS
  Martin Wolf
  CCS Working Paper No. 34, February 2009

• Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the CCS
  Stefano Micossi
  CCS Working Paper No. 33, February 2009

• Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the CCS
  Malcolm Knight
  CCS Working Paper No. 32, February 2009
   
• Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the CCS
  John Kay
  CCS Working Paper No. 31, February 2009
   
• Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the CCS
  Willem Buiter
  CCS Working Paper No. 30, February 2009

• Financial Markets and the State: Price Swings, Risk, and the Scope of Regulation
  Roman Frydman and Michael D. Goldberg
  CCS Working Paper No. 29, February 2009

• In Praise of More Primitive Finance
  Amar Bhidé
  CCS Working Paper No. 28, January 2009

2008

• Imperfect Knowledge and Post-Crisis Reform of the Financial System: A Sketch of the Conceptual Framework and Policy Proposals
  Roman Frydman and Michael D. Goldberg
  CCS Working Paper No. 27, November 2008

• Three Forewords
  Edmund S. Phelps
  CCS Working Paper No. 26, June 2008

• Dynamism and Inclusion: What? Why? How?
  Edmund S. Phelps
  CCS Working Paper No. 25, May 2008
   
• Macroeconomic Theory for a World of Imperfect Knowledge
  Roman Frydman and Michael D. Goldberg
  CCS Working Paper No. 24, May 2008

2007

• How Medical Know-how Progresses
  Richard R. Nelson
  CCS Working Paper No. 23, November 2007

• The Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate and the Limits of Knowledge
  Roman Frydman and Michael D. Goldberg
  CCS Working Paper No. 22, November 2007

• Capitalism and Keynes: From the Treatise on Probability to The General Theory
  Edmund S. Phelps
  CCS Working Paper No. 21, July 2007

• Corporatism and Keynes: His Views on Growth
  Edmund S. Phelps
  CCS Working Paper No. 20, May 2007

2006

• Toward a Model of Innovation and Performance Along the Lines of Knight, Keynes, Hayek and M. Polanyí
  Edmund S. Phelps
  CCS Working Paper No.19, November 2006

• Europe: Cultural Adjustment to a New Kind of Capitalism?
  Harold James
  CCS Working Paper No. 18, July 2006

• Economic Culture and Economic Performance: What Light Is Shed on the Continent's Problem?
  Edmund S. Phelps
  CCS Working Paper No.17, July 2006

• Payroll Taxes, Wealth and Employment in Neoclassical Theory: Neutrality or Non-neutrality?
  Hian Teck Hoon
  CCS Working Paper No. 16, September 2006
   
• Revisiting the Nordic Model: Evidence on Recent Macroeconomic Performance
  Jeffrey D. Sachs
  CCS Working Paper No. 15, October 2006
   
• Europe’s Venture Capital Institutions are Good Enough
  Richard Robb
  CCS Working Paper No. 14, September 2006
   
• Innovations to Foster Risk-Taking and Entrepreneurship
  Robert J. Shiller
  CCS Working Paper No. 13, August 2006
   
• Venturesome Consumption, Innovation and Globalization
  Amar Bhidé
  CCS Working Paper No. 12, July 2006
   
• Why Isn’t Europe Growing As Fast As the US?
  Philippe Aghion
  CCS Working Paper No. 11, October 2006
   
• Promoting Entrepreneurship - What are the real policy challenges for the European Union (EU)?
  Anders N. Hoffmann
  CCS Working Paper No. 10, September 2006
   
• Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States: Security, Finance, and Accountability
  Roman Frydman, Omar Khan, Andrzej Rapaczynski
  CCS Working Paper No. 9, September 2006
   
• Market Forces and the Continent’s Growth Problem
  Gylfi Zoega
  CCS Working Paper No. 8, October 2006
   
• Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe
  James J. Heckman and Bas Jacobs
  CCS Working Paper No. 7, September 2006
   
• Issues in the Comparison of Welfare Between Europe and the United States
  Robert J. Gordon
  CCS Working Paper No. 6, July 2006

2005

• Evolutionary Social Science and Universal Darwinism
  Richard R. Nelson
  CCS Working Paper No. 5, September 2005
   
• A Dynamic Theory of China-U.S. Trade: Making Sense of the Imbalances
  Amar Bhidé and Edmund S. Phelps
  CCS Working Paper No. 4, July 2005
   
• Where Are We Now on an Evolutionary Theory of Economic Growth, and Where Should We Be Going?
  Richard R. Nelson
  CCS Working Paper No. 3, February 2005
   
• The Economic Prosperity of Nations: Prosperity Depends on Dynamism, Dynamism on Institutions
  Edmund S. Phelps
  CCS Working Paper No. 2, January 2005
   
• How Novelty Aversion Affects Financing Options
  Amar Bhidé
  CCS Working Paper No. 1, January 2005