Index
Adjustment process
Affluent Society, The (Galbraith)
Alliances, U.S.
Anthropomorphic fallacy
Arrow, Kenneth
Arrow-Kurz theory
Asset market bubble
Aumann, Robert
Automation, health care
Axiomatic method
Bankruptcy
Banks and banking
Bargaining theory See also Multilateral bargaining
applied to China
and free market exchange theory
incomplete information games
and political competence
power in political science
role of threats in
Belassa-Samuelson effect
Benefits projection
Bernanke, Ben
Biases
Bold Endeavors (Rohatyn)
Bond market
Brazier, James
Business cycles
Business investment
Capital, private
Capitalism
bastardization of
democratic
and moral philosophy
overview and summary
and role of government
snow white
Capital spending
Cartels
Certainty, pricing model
China
admission to World Trade Organization
and applied bargaining theory
and decline of United States
determinants of relative power with U.S.
and emerging economies
fallacies about relations with U.S.
growing belligerence
and international law
military
and Pakistan
resource power
trade imbalance with U.S.
Coalitional power
Coalitional worth
Coalitions
Cold War
Commodities
Communism
Competition
Compromise
Concessions
Constitutional choice problem
Constructive proof
Contribution-based fairness
Contribution principle
Control variables
Correlated mistakes
Corruption
Cost benefit analysis
Counterfeit goods
Cowen, Tyler
Credible threats
Currency manipulation
Debating
Debreu, Gerard
Debt
national
Decentralization
Deductive logic
Defense, U.S. See Military
Deficiencies, real-world
Deficit, fiscal
case for very large
effect on GDP
optimal size of
Deficits:
good versus bad
monetization of
redefining
trade (see Trade deficit)
Deficit spending
Deregulation, market
Derivative securities
Dialectical method
Dialogue of the Deaf
importance of ending
origins of
Dill, Michael J.
Diminishing marginal utility
Distributional equity. See Distributive justice
Distributive justice
comprehensive theory of
conflict between needs-based and contribution-based fairness
and taxes
and a theory of the state
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Dollar
Economic efficiency
Economic growth
Economics:
and anthropomorphic fallacy
financial (see Financial economics)
mistakes-free
politicization of
of uncertainty
U.S. vs. China
vs. political science
Economics imperialism
Economic theory
Economic threat power
Economy, U.S.
Eddington, Arthur
Education, investment in
Efficiency
Efficient market theory
Eminent domain
Endogenous risk
Energy independence
Entitlements See also Medicare; Social Security
as share of GDP
Equity
Exogenous risk
Expert systems
Explanatory deductive logic
Externalities
Fairness
Fat tails
Finance, classical
Financial economics
Financial markets
Financial theory
Fiscal policy
Forecasting
correlated errors
economic
GDP
national income based
price changes
qualitative
unconditional modes of
Free and fair trade
Freedom
Free-market, decentralized
Free-market economics
Free-market theory
Future, uncertainty about
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Game theory
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
GDP:
effect of fiscal deficit on
entitlement spending as share of
forecasting
growth
and health care spending
and national income
U.S. vs. China
volatility of
Gerrymandering
Global financial crisis See also Perfect financial storms
origins of
Governance, success in
Government:
and capitalism
contraction
deficits
importance of self-reform
spending
Greed process
Greenspan, Alan
Growth theory
Handbook of Game Theory (Arrow)
Harsanyi, John
Health care. See also ObamaCare
access to
basic assumptions for optimal system
complexity of
cost of
demand for services
expert systems and automation
geometric proofs
investment in infrastructure
overview of debate
physician supply shortage
policies for improving
productivity reform
rationing
reduction in spending
reform
as share of GDP
spending crisis
supply and demand
supply-side solution to crisis
Hedging
perfect
problematic
Household spending
Housing
Human capital
Hurwicz, Leonid
Impossibility theorem
Incentive structure
compatibility
incompatibility
Inclusion principle
Incomplete information games
Inductive logic
Inflation
Informational efficiency
Information theory
Infrastructure
deferred maintenance
deterioration of
estimating return on capital invested
identifying and ranking potential projects
and job creation
politicizing of projects
risk in estimating costs and revenues
role of government in financing
Infrastructure bank
Insurance, health. See Health care
Intellectual property
Interbank lending
Interest rates
International law
Interpersonal comparisons of utility
Intrilligator, Michael
Investment:
business
cycle of opportunities
human capital
private versus public
in public projects
residential
Invisible hand
Irrationality index
Japan
Job creation
Keynes, John Maynard
Keynesian theory
King, Mervyn
Koopmans, T.
Krugman, Paul
Kurz, Mordecai
Labor market
Leadership
Legal system, U.S.
Leonhardt, David
Leverage
and endogenous risk
excess
excess societal
explaining to clients
and global financial crisis
limiting
need for a czar
optimal yet irrelevant
Liabilities, unfunded
Living standards
Loan originators
Logic See also Deductive logic; Inductive logic
Lost Decade
Macro-controllability
Macroeconomics
Malinvaud, E.
Marginal utility, diminishing
Margin requirements
Market equilibrium
Market failures
Market risk
Market volatility
Markov model
Mark-to-model asset valuation
Marshall Plan, domestic
Marx, Karl
Mean reversion
Mechanism design, theory of
Media
Medicaid
Medical care. See Health care
Medicare
Mercantilism
Meyerson, Roger
Military
Minsky, Hyman
Missing markets problem
Models, economic
Moral hazards
Moral philosophy
Moral theory
Morgenson, Gretchen
Morgenstern, Oscar
Mortgage defaults
Multilateral bargaining
Mutual assured destruction (MAD)
Nash, John F. Jr.
Nash-Harsanyi bargaining paradigm
applied to China and United States
and political science
value of
National income
Neediness, relative
Needs-based fairness
Needs principle
Net foreign capital inflow
Net private savings
Noncooperative game
Nozick, Robert
ObamaCare See also Health care
geometric proofs
summary
supply and demand
supply and demand summary
Olson, Mancur
Optimal control theory
Optimal exiting
Optimal growth
Optimal social system
Optimal tax rates
Optimal threats
Optimization model
Pakistan
Pardes, Herbert
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. See ObamaCare
Payoff matrix
Peace
Perfect financial storms
policy reforms
preconditions for
Physicians, shortage of
Pluralistic bargaining model
Policy analysis
Policy gridlock
Policy variables
Political science:
and anthropomorphic fallacy
contrasting failure of
education
possibility of hegemony of
power of bargaining model
root problem of
vs. economics
Positivism
Power Index
Pricing
decentralized invisible hand
forecasting changes
volatility
Pricing model certainty
Pricing model uncertainty
Primary good
Princeton philosophy department
Privacy
Productivity:
growth of
and health-care reform
Proprietary trading
Protectionism
Public bad
Public choice theory
Public good
Public Investment (Arrow)
Public policy:
analysis
raising the level of national debate for change
Public safety
Public sector
Public welfare
Quantum field theory
Rational choice
Rational expectations, theory of
Rationing of health care
Rawlsism
Recession
Reckless Endangerment (Morgenson)
Recovery growth rate
Redistribution
Reduced form models
Reform of financial policies
Relative contribution
Relative needs
Relative power
United States and China
Relative risk aversion
Relative risk tolerance
Relative threat power
Representative consumer
Reserve requirement
Resources:
allocation of
economic and military power
for new Marshall Plan
Return on investment
Returns to scale, diminishing
Ricardian advantage
Rise and Decline of Nations (Olson)
Risk
allocation of
assessment
aversion
efficient reallocation of
endogenous (see Endogenous risk)
exogenous
and hedging
limits
management
market
pooling
and public infrastructure projects
ruin
sharing
systemic
tolerance
Rohatyn, Felix
Ruin risk
Rule of law
Salsberg, Edward S.
Samuelson, Paul
Savings:
foreign
net private
personal
Scanlon, Thomas
Scott, Robert
Second fundamental theorem of welfare economics
Securities, enhanced yield
Securitization
Selten, Reinhard
Shapley, Lloyd
Shiller, Robert
Singapore Model
Smith, Adam
“Snow-white” economies
Social distress
Socialized medicine
Social risk
Social Security
Social welfare
Soros, George
Stability, dynamic
State variables
Stationarity
Stimulus:
fiscal and monetary
public sector
spending
Supply and demand
health care
ObamaCare
review of
Supply and demand theory
Supreme Court
Surplus, large
Systemic risk
Tariffs, import
Taxes
and distributive justice
progressive
and public good
Tax rates, optimal
Taylor, Charles
Technologies, new
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (von Neumann)
Theory of Justice (Rawls)
Threat payoff
Threat power
Threat strategies
Thugocracies
Tobin, James
Tort reform
Trade deficit
Trade imbalance
Transparency
Turbulence, market
Uncertainty
economics of
pricing model
Unemployment
United States:
and coalitional power
and international law
and Japan
opportunity to improve bargaining skills
relationship with China
resource power
risk aversion
trade imbalance with China
Utilitarianism
Value-at-risk (VAR) models
Volatility
Volcker, Paul
Von Neumann, “Johnny,”
Waste
Wealth and income distribution
Wealth growth paradox
Wealth of Nations (Smith)
Welfare economics
Welfare state solvency
Well-being, maximization of
What We Owe to Each Other (Scanlon)
Winfrey, Oprah
Win-win strategies
Wolf, Martin
World Trade Organization
Yen
Young, Peyton
Yuan