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Class no.
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Date
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Readings
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Remarks
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1
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1/6/2015
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Overview
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RH: Robert
Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers.
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2
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1/8/2015
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RH, Ch 3. Smith Book 1, Ch
1-3.
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Adam
Smith, The Wealth of Nations
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3
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1/13/2015
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Smith Book
4, Ch 2. Blaug
Ch 2, Sec 19 (pp. 59-63).
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Mark Blaug, Economic Theory in Retrospect.
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4
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1/15/2015
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RH, Ch 4 (upto p 94 on
Malthus). Malthus Ch 1 & Ch 2 (pp. 4-11).RH, Ch
4. (pp 95-104 on Ricardo), Blaug pp. 85-93.
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Malthus
and Ricardo
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5
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1/20/2015
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RH, Ch 6. Marx & Engels, The Communist
Manifesto, Part 1, and the 10-point program. Blaug
Ch 7, Sec 46 (pp. 274-275).
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Marx
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6
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1/22/2015
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Hicks,
Theory of Economic History Chapters 1-3. Olson AER 1986.
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Non-Marxist
materialist conceptions of history
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7
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1/27/2015
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Blaug, Ch 8, Sections 1-3. J.R. Hicks, Value and
Capital, Ch 1 (pp
11-25).
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The
beginning of neoclassical economics
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8
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1/29/2015
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Hicks Ch 2 pp 26-41.
Hayek. Weintraub pp
113-115.
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Demand
theory (Slutsky). Informational role of
prices. General Equilibrium.
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10
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2/3/2015
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S. Bowles,
Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, Evolution Ch
6, pp 205-232
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Welfare
Theorems and Coase
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11
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2/5/2015
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Sen.
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Welfare
Economics
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12
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2/10/2015
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Akerlof, The
Market for Lemons
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Information.
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13
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2/12/2015
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J. Stiglitz, Whither Socialism? Ch 3, pp. 27-44.
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Information-based
criticque of 1st Welfare Thm.
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14
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2/17/2015
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Somanathan EPW.
Bagwell & Wolinsky
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Modern
Economic Theory. Game theory.
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15
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2/19/2015
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Stiglitz, Ch 7, pp. 109-138.
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Competition.
Industrial Organisation.
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16
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3/3/2015
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RH Ch 10. Stiglitz, Ch 8, pp. 139-152.
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Schumpeter,
Innovation
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17
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3/10/2015
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RH Ch 9. Keynes, The Great Slump of 1930. The
General Theory Ch 3, Sections II and III.
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Keynes
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18
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3/12/2015
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Hicks: Mr Keynes and the Classics. Keynes: The General
Theory, Ch 12.
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Macroeconomics
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19
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3/17/2015
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Mankiw, JEP 1990
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Macroeconomics
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20
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3/19/2015
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Akerlof, Nobel
Lecture 2001
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Macroeconomics
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21
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3/24/2015
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Andrei Shleifer, Inefficient Markets, Ch 1, pp. 1-27. Krugman-NYT-Sept2009.
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Financial
markets, the troubles of macroeconomics
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22
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3/26/2015
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Krugman (2009), Sethi (2009), Maskin
interview.
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Macroeconomic
crises
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23
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3/31/2015
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Angrist and Pischke, Scheiber, Rogeberg & Melberg
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Econometrics,
Is economics a science?
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24
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4/7/2015
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Clark et
al pp. 95-111 (to the end of Section 3.3). J.K. Galbraith, The Affluent
Society, Ch 11 pp
152-160, Ch 18 pp
251-269. Tibor Scitovsky,
Human Desire and Economic Satisfaction pp. 117-127
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Endogenous
preferences
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25
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4/9/2015
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Olson:
Autocracy, democracy, prosperity. Big bills left on the sidewalk.
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Institutions
and development
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26
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4/14/2015
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Lindert: Growing
Public Ch 1,2,9.
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Social
security, public expenditure, and distribution.
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27
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4/16/2015 |
Milanovic, Piketty |
Inequality. |
