TY - BOOK AU - Stiglitz,Joseph E. TI - The road to freedom : : economics and the good society SN - 9781324074373 AV - HC 106.84 S855r 2024 PY - 2024/// CY - New York, NY PB - W. W. Norton & Company KW - Liberalismo económico KW - Neoliberalismo KW - Libertad KW - Aspectos económicos KW - Estados Unidos KW - Condiciones económicas KW - Siglo XXI N1 - Includes bibliographical referenc; Preface Introduction: Freedom in Danger How Economists Think About Freedom Part I. Liberty and Freedom: Basic Principles 3. One Person’s Freedom Is Another Person’s Unfreedom 4. Freedom Through Coercion: Public Goods and the Free-Rider Problem 5. Contracts, the Social Contract, and Freedom 6. Freedom, a Competitive Economy, and Social Justice 7. The Freedom to Exploit Part II. Freedom, Beliefs, and Preferences, and the Creation of the Good Society 8. Social Coercion and Social Cohesion 9. The Concerted Shaping of Individuals and Their Beliefs 10. Tolerance, Social Solidarity, and Freedom Part III. What Kind of Economy Promotes a Good, Just, and Free Society? 11. Neoliberal Capitalism: Why It Failed 12. Freedom, Sovereignty, and Coercion Among States 13. Progressive Capitalism, Social Democracy, and a Learning Society 14. Democracy, Freedom, Social Justice, and the Good Society Acknowledgments Notes N2 - In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. “Free” and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the financial crisis, the opioid crisis, and the crisis of inequality. While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth, wages for most people have stagnated. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. Such failures have fed populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another. As they grow in strength, these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom ER -