reading material-econ100

Reading Material

Books to purchase:

Ellen Frank et al., Real World Globalization, Cambridge, MA 2000
This paperback can be purchased at the Odyssey Book Shop. Most other readings are provided as links on the website. Some additional readings will be made available later as a reading packet, and some will be on reserve.

Some Preliminary Readings (available on reserve in the economics lounge/Skinner 120):

Case & Fair:Principles of Economics (5th edition),
Ch. 5: The Price System, Supply and Demand (forget about Elasticity) Ch. 21 (6 in Macro): Introduction to Macroeconomics
Ch. 12: General Equilibrium and the Efficiency of Perfect Competition
Ch. 16: Externalities, Public Goods, Imperfect Information, and Social Choice
Ch. 34: (19 in Macro; 20 in 4th ed.): Economic Growth and Productivity
Ch. 35: (20 in Macro; 22 in 4th ed.): Open-Economy Macroeconomics: The Balance of Payments And Exchange Rates (forget about Section 2: Equilibrium Output...)
Ch. 37: (22 in Macro; 23 in 4th ed.): Economic Growth in Developing Nations

Heilbroner: Beyond Boom and Crash, Chs. II-IV & VIII

Cobb et al.: If GDP is up, Why is America Down?, Atlantic Monthly, October 1995

Dowd: The Twisted Dream , Ch. 7: Imperialism, American Style

Heilbroner: The Wordly Philosophers, Ch. IX: The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes

Worldwatch Institute: State of the World 2000, Ch. 10 Coping with Ecological Globalization (Hiliary French)

Emma Rothschild: Globalization and the Return of History, Foreign Policy, Summer 1999