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Working Papers

The Center Working Papers series is a platform for preliminary research papers and other unpublished documents taking up the economics of capitalism and its social effects, written by members and affiliates of the Center on Capitalism and Society.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

2012 

  • Job Satisfaction: the Effect of Capitalist and Corporatist Institutions
    Gylfi Zoega and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 78, December 2012
     
  • Job Satisfaction: the Effects of Two Economic Cultures
    Raicho Bojilov and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 77, September 2012
     
  • Entrepreneurship, Ambiguity, and the Shape of Innovation Contracts
    Massimiliano Amarante, Mario Ghossoub, and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 76, September 2012
     
  • Contracting for Innovation under Ambiguity
    Massimiliano Amarante, Mario Ghossoub, and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 75, September 2012
     
  • Effects of Technological Improvement in the ICT-Producing Sector on Business Activity
    Hian Teck Hoon and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 74, January 2012
     

2011

  • Corporatism, Capitalism and the Arab Spring
    Saifedean Ammous
    Center Working Paper No. 73, October 2011
     
  • An Excess of State Borrowing and Bank Lending: A Symptom of Present-day Corporatist Economies
    Amar Bhidé, John Kay and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 72, August 2011

  • A North African Quartet
    Saifedean Ammous and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 71, July 2011
     
  • Rules vs. Discretion: The Judicial Alternative
    Juan Vicente Sola
    Center Working Paper No. 70, April 2011
     
  • Innovation and Employment
    Hian Teck Hoon and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 69, April 2011
     
  • The Entrepreneurial Economy I: Contracting under Knightian Uncertainty
    Massimiliano Amarante, Mario Ghossoub and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 68, April 2011

  • Structural Slumps and Fiscal Policy
    Gylfi Zoega
    Center Working Paper No. 67, April 2011 (updated May 2011)
     
  • Phelpsian Good Economy: Twelve Radical Aspects
    Esa Saarinen and Peter Kenttä
    Center Working Paper No. 66, April 2011
     
  • Climate Change, the Knowledge Problem and the Good Life
    Saifedean Ammous and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 65, March 2011


2010

  • To Spend or Not to Spend: Is That the Main Question?
    Guillermo Calvo
    Center Working Paper No. 64, August 2010
     
  • Below is a trilogy of papers on the analytics of the crisis and the ensuing slump.

    • Macroeconomic Effects of Over-investment in Housing in an Aggregative Model of Economic Activity
      Hian Teck Hoon and Edmund S. Phelps
      Center Working Paper No. 63, July 2010
       
    • The Financial Crisis: Joblessness and Investmentlessness
      Gylfi Zoega
      Center Working Paper No. 62, July 2010
       
    • The Slump, the Recovery, And the 'New Normal'
      Edmund S. Phelps
      Center Working Paper No. 61, June 2010
  • Dynamism and Economic Performance: A Preliminary Report
    Raicho Bojilov and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 60, July 2010
     
  • Capitalism as a Mixed Economic System
    Richard R. Nelson
    Center Working Paper No. 59, June 2010
     
  • The Slump, the Recovery, And the 'New Normal' (Updated above - No. 61)
    Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 58, May 2010
     
  • The Influence of Keynesian Economics in Judicial Decisions
    Juan V. Sola
    Center Working Paper No. 57, May 2010
     
  • The Challenge of Innovation in Turbulent Times: A Report Submitted to the Global Agenda Council
    Dominique Foray and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 56, April 2010
     
  • Banks, Market Organization and Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Analysis
    Peter Howitt
    Center Working Paper No. 55, April 2010

  • Meso Foundation of Business Cycles and Market Vitality for Macro Policy: A New Trinity of Micro-Meso-Macro Economy
    Ping Chen
    Center Working Paper No. 54, February 2010

2009

  • Seeds of Recovery After The Financial Crisis
    Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 53, December 2009
     
  • Presentation at the 7th Annual Conference of the Center
    Josef Ackermann
    Center Working Paper No. 52, December 2009
  • Presentation at the 7th Annual Conference of the Center
    Hans-Werner Sinn
    Center Working Paper No. 51, December 2009
     
  • Presentation at the 7th Annual Conference of the Center
    Stefano Scarpetta
    Center Working Paper No. 50, December 2009
     
  • Presentation at the 7th Annual Conference of the Center
    Howard Davies
    Center Working Paper No. 49, December 2009
     
  • The Radicalism of Phelpsian Good Economy (Updated Above - No. 66)
    Esa Saarinen and Peter Kenttä
    Center Working Paper No. 48, November 2009
     
  • Presentation at Center's Special Conference: Peace Through Reconstruction
    Graciana del Castillo
    Center Working Paper No. 47, October 2009
     
  • Presentation at Center's Special Conference: Peace Through Reconstruction
    Herman Schaper
    Center Working Paper No. 46, October 2009
     
  • Presentation at Center's Special Conference: Peace Through Reconstruction
    M. Ishaq Nadiri
    Center Working Paper No. 45, October 2009
     
  • Presentation at Center's Special Conference: Peace Through Reconstruction
    Roger Myerson
    Center Working Paper No. 44, October 2009
     
  • Capitalism As A Mixed Economic System
    Richard R. Nelson
    Center Working Paper No. 43, September 2009
     
  • Climate Change, the Knowledge Problem and the Good Life (Updated above)
    Saifedean Ammous and Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 42, September 2009
     
  • Innovation and Morality in Economics
    Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 41, August 2009
     
  • Liberating Leadership: How The Initiative-Freeing Radical Organizational Form Has Been Successfully Adopted
    Isaac Getz
    Center Working Paper No.40, August 2009

  • An Accident Waiting to Happen
    Amar Bhidé
    Center Working Paper No. 39, May 2009
  •      Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the Center
    Guillermo de la Dehesa
    Center Working Paper No. 38, February 2009
  • Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the Center
    Roman Frydman and Michael D. Goldberg
    Center Working Paper No. 37, February 2009
  • Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the Center
    Josef Ackermann
    Center Working Paper No. 36, February 2009
  • Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the Center
    Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 35, February 2009
  • Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the Center
    Martin Wolf
    Center Working Paper No. 34, February 2009
  • Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the Center
    Stefano Micossi
    Center Working Paper No. 33, February 2009
  • Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the Center
    Malcolm Knight
    Center Working Paper No. 32, February 2009
     
  • Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the Center
    John Kay
    Center Working Paper No. 31, February 2009
     
  • Presentation at the 6th Annual Conference of the Center
    Willem Buiter
    Center 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
    Center Working Paper No. 29, February 2009
  • In Praise of More Primitive Finance
    Amar Bhidé

    Center 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
    Center Working Paper No. 27, November 2008
  • Three Forewords
    Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 26, June 2008
  • Dynamism and Inclusion: What? Why? How?
    Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 25, May 2008
     
  • Macroeconomic Theory for a World of Imperfect Knowledge
    Roman Frydman and Michael D. Goldberg
    Center Working Paper No. 24, May 2008

2007

  • How Medical Know-how Progresses
    Richard R. Nelson
    Center Working Paper No. 23, November 2007
  • The Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate and the Limits of Knowledge
    Roman Frydman and Michael D. Goldberg
    Center Working Paper No. 22, November 2007
  • Capitalism and Keynes: From the Treatise on Probability to The General Theory
    Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 21, July 2007
  • Corporatism and Keynes: His Views on Growth
    Edmund S. Phelps
    Center 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
    Center Working Paper No.19, November 2006
  • Europe: Cultural Adjustment to a New Kind of Capitalism?
    Harold James
    Center Working Paper No. 18, July 2006
  • Economic Culture and Economic Performance: What Light Is Shed on the Continent's Problem?
    Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No.17, July 2006
  • Payroll Taxes, Wealth and Employment in Neoclassical Theory: Neutrality or Non-neutrality?
    Hian Teck Hoon
    Center Working Paper No. 16, September 2006
     
  • Revisiting the Nordic Model: Evidence on Recent Macroeconomic Performance
    Jeffrey D. Sachs
    Center Working Paper No. 15, October 2006
     
  • Europe’s Venture Capital Institutions are Good Enough
    Richard Robb
    Center Working Paper No. 14, September 2006
     
  • Innovations to Foster Risk-Taking and Entrepreneurship
    Robert J. Shiller
    Center Working Paper No. 13, August 2006
     
  • Venturesome Consumption, Innovation and Globalization
    Amar Bhidé
    Center Working Paper No. 12, July 2006
     
  • Why Isn’t Europe Growing As Fast As the US?
    Philippe Aghion
    Center Working Paper No. 11, October 2006
     
  • Promoting Entrepreneurship - What are the real policy challenges for the European Union (EU)?
    Anders N. Hoffmann
    Center Working Paper No. 10, September 2006
     
  • Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States: Security, Finance, and Accountability
    Roman Frydman, Omar Khan, Andrzej Rapaczynski
    Center Working Paper No. 9, September 2006
     
  • Market Forces and the Continent’s Growth Problem
    Gylfi Zoega
    Center Working Paper No. 8, October 2006
     
  • Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe
    James J. Heckman and Bas Jacobs
    Center Working Paper No. 7, September 2006
     
  • Issues in the Comparison of Welfare Between Europe and the United States
    Robert J. Gordon
    Center Working Paper No. 6, July 2006

2005

  • Evolutionary Social Science and Universal Darwinism
    Richard R. Nelson

    Center 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
    Center 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
    Center Working Paper No. 3, February 2005
     
  • The Economic Prosperity of Nations: Prosperity Depends on Dynamism, Dynamism on Institutions
    Edmund S. Phelps
    Center Working Paper No. 2, January 2005
     
  • How Novelty Aversion Affects Financing Options
    Amar Bhidé
    Center Working Paper No. 1, January 2005

 

 

 

 

 

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