Preface -- Introduction -- The current rules -- More market power, less competition -- The growth of the financial sector -- The "shareholder revolution", the rise of ceo pay, and the squeezing of workers -- Lower taxes for the wealthy -- The end of full-employment monetary policy -- The...

Preface -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Adapting labor and social protection systems to twenty-first-century capitalism / Sandra Polaski -- The welfare state in the twenty-first century : latest trends in social protection / Isabel Ortiz -- Supporting...

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI...