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I am looking for a Spanish - English speaker or at least someone who has the book in English, I have the book in Spanish but I need to translate a quote from the book in particular from the Chapter # 3 "Markets and Inequality" iT begins " Our hypothesis is that the souurces (?) of the market are real but are determined by the political process" My translation of "Nuestra hipotesis es que las fuerzas del mercado...

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"Our hypothesis is that market forces are real, but that they are shaped by political processes. Markets are shaped by laws, regulat…morefuerzas is forces.

"Our hypothesis is that market forces are real, but that they are shaped by political processes. Markets are shaped by laws, regulations, and institutions. Every law, every regulation, every institutional arrangement has distributive consequences--and the way we have been shaping America's market economy works to the advantage of those at the top and to the disadvantage of the rest."(less)

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I noted where the new Stiglitz book may be gotten free, online (from Columbia University), and the note has disappeared. Anybody know why?

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Can anyone point me to a *SUMMARY* of this book? That is, *not* a review, but only a precis of the book, preferably on a chapter-by-chapter basis. Google search doesn't seem to understand the difference between a summary and a review. Thanks!

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