CEU President and Rector, John Shattuck, sits down with the distinguished economist and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz for an interview following day one of a three-day conference presented by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), Central European University, Budapest; DIME - Dynamics of Markets and Institutions in Europe (Network of Excellence, European Union, 6th Framework Program); and the Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa.
Held at Central European University, September 6-8, 2010.
http://www.ceu.hu/events/2010-09-06/toward-an-alternative-macroeconomic-analy...
The risks to the system as a whole are dangerous when people act in self-interest or in the narrow incentives of profit maximization due to imperfect information.
The next questions... taking inequality as an essential assumption of fresh water capitalism...
Is inequality based on the idea of the invisible hand?.... yes
Is inequality based on the hypothesis of rationality?.... yes
Does inequality arise from imperfect information?.... yes
Could inequality be a systemic risk?....
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