Instructor: E. Somanathan
Contact: Room 215, Economics and Planning Unit
Ph: 011-4149 3939, Email: som [at] isid.ac.in
Class time: M W 2:00-3:30

Class Schedule

List of references for the first half of the course

Angrist, J. and J. S. Pischke (2010). The credibility revolution in empirical economics: How better research design is taking the con out of econometrics, Journal of Economic Perspectives 24(2): 3-30.

Blaug, M. (1987). Economic Theory in Retrospect. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Bowles, S. (2004). Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, Evolution. New Delhi, Oxford University Press.

Galbraith, J. K. (1958). The Affluent Society. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.

Heilbroner, R. L. (1986). The Worldly Philosophers. New York, Simon & Schuster.

Hicks, J. R. (1946). Value and Capital.

Keynes, J. M. (1930). "The great slump of 1930." The Nation and Athenaeum 20.

Krugman, P. R. (2009). "How Did Economists get it so Wrong?". New York Times Magazine, 6 Sept.

Layard, Richard (2006), Happiness and Public Policy: a Challenge to the Profession. The Economic Journal, 116: C24–C33.

Lindert, Peter H. (2004). Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press.

Malthus, T. R. (1798). "An Essay on the Principle of Population."

Mankiw, N. G. (1990). "A Quick Refresher Course in Macroeconomics." Journal of Economic Literature 28(4): 1645-1660.

Marx, K. and F. Engels (1848). The Communist Manifesto.

Rogeberg, O. and H. O. Melberg (2011). "Acceptance of unsupported claims about reality: a blind spot in economics." Journal of Economic Methodology 18(01): 29-52.

Scheiber, N. (2007). "Freaks and geeks: How freakonomics is ruining the dismal science." The New Republic 2: 27-31.

Sen, A. (1979). "Personal utilities and public judgements: Or what's wrong with welfare economics?" The Economic Journal 79: 537-558.

Smith, A. (1776). An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Stiglitz, J. E. (1994). Whither Socialism? Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press.

Weintraub, E. R. (1977). General Equilibrium Theory. Modern Economic Thought. S. Weintraub. Oxford, Basil Blackwell.