The Limits of the Market
Updated
The pendulum between government and capitalism
edition after
Paul De Grauwe
COVID19
New corona crisis updated edition of Paul De Grauwe's international standard work Filled to the brim with policy suggestions and advice to tackle the current economic and public health challenges The corona crisis has taught us that the demand for cooperation between government and the free market is crucial Will the corona crisis bring about a new turning point in the balance of power between the free market and the government? Will we get a restriction of the free market and will the state take back power? Core problems such as health, climate change and growing income inequality illustrate the inevitable external and internal limits of the market.
140 x 210 mm | 240 pages | 57,000 words paperback | French, English, Italian and Bulgarian rights sold
Only the government seems to be able to offer a solution. But the state, too, will collide with its limits and in turn pave the way for a comeback of the market.
Professor Paul De Grauwe is an internationally renowned top economist. He teaches at the London School of Economics and before that at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), was a.o. visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam and became Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Maastricht. He was a Belgian member of parliament and, among other things, a consultant to European Commission President Barosso. He is, a.o. a columnist for The Financial Times.
Today, our misfortune is to be caught between ineffective govern-ments and failing markets. We need an intelligent guide to this new territory. One of Europe's leading economists, Paul De Grauwe, is such a guide. – Martin Wolf, chief economic commentator at the Financial Times
Kasteelstraat 97 | b-8700 Tielt | Belgium | t +32-51424211 | www.lannoopublishers.com contact liesbeth.debruyne@lannoo.be, gunther.spriet@lannoo.be or wouter.roose@lannoo.be
Economy & management – 26