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Lissack, Michael. 2010. Fix Housing -- Fix the Economy. Naples, FL: fixhousing.blogspot.com

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. Greg Mankiw's Blog: Random Observations for Students of Economics. ("Professor of economics at Harvard University, where I teach introductory economics (ec 10) among other courses."). (gregmankiw.blogspot.com). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Select Books
Ip, Greg. 2010. The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in The Real World. New York, NY: Wiley.

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St. Louis Fed 2010. National Economic Education Video Competition for College Students. St Louis, MO: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank.

Select Games
Economic Games. 2010. Economic Games. Queensland, Australia: Griffith University and Australian Learning and Teaching Counsel.

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Capitalism

Harvey, David. 2010. The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism. Profile Books.

Federal Reserve

Bernanke, Chairman Ben S. 2010. Causes of the Recent Financial and Economic Crisis. September 2. (Before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Washington, D.C.). Washington, DC: federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony

Freshman Economics

Harvard Professor of Economic's 2009 Freshman Seminar:

The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner

Spin-Free Economics, by Nariman Behravesh

Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman

Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur Okun

Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

The Return of Depression Economics, by Paul Krugman

Animal Spirits, by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller

The Myth of the Rational Voter, by Bryan Caplan

Economic Gangsters, by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel

The Price of Everything, by Russell Roberts

Superfreakonomics, by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt

Greg Mankiw's 2009 Harvard Ec 10 course - http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/08/impossible-task.html

Harvard Professor of Economic's 2010 Freshman Seminar: Here are the books we are reading this year (in this order):

The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbronr Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets, by John McMillan

Thinking Strategically, by Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff

Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman

Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur Okun

Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

How the Economy Works, by Roger E.A. Farmer

The Return of Depression Economics, by Paul Krugman

The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek

The Myth of the Rational Voter, by Bryan Caplan

The Big Questions, by Steven Landsburg

Greg Mankiw's 2010 Harvard Ec 10 course - http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/09/this-years-freshman-seminar.html

The Great Depression

Barro, Robert. 2009. Macroeconomic Effects from Government Purchases and Taxes. (Related paper here: http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/15369.html). National Science Foundation.

Bernanke, Ben S. 2004. Essays on the Great Depression. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Cole, Harold and Lee Ohanian. 2003. The Great Depression in the United States from a Neoclassical Perspective. (Also here: http://www.economics.hawaii.edu/research/seminars/02-03/02-21.pdf). (Research Department Staff Report XXX.). Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Friedman Milton and Anna Jacobson Schwartz. 1971. Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Ramey, Valerie. 2009. Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It’s All in the Timing. (http://econ.ucsd.edu/~vramey/research/IdentifyingGovt.pdf). University of California, San Diego.

(Harvard Professor Robert Barro’s Five Great Books on the Depression - http://five-books.com/interviews/robert-barro)

Poverty

Eckholm, Erik. 2010. Recession Raises Poverty Rate to a 15-Year High. September 16. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Productivity

Rogoff, Kenneth. 2010. An Age of Diminished Expectations?. August 3. New York, NY: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/rogoff71/English

Small Business

Hassett, Kevin and Alan Viard. 2010. Counting Small Businesses. September 3. (see also: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703959704575454061524326290.html). Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/09/counting-small-businesses.htm.

Mankiw, Greg. 2010. A Small Step in the Right Direction. September 07. Cambridge, MA: gregmankiw.blogspot.com.

Unemployment

Barro, Robert. 2010. The Folly of Subsidizing Unemployment: My calculations suggest the jobless rate could be as low as 6.8%, instead of 9.5%, if jobless benefits hadn't been extended to 99 weeks. August 30. New York, NY: Wall Street Journal.

Tyson, Laura. 2010. Why We Need a Second Stimulus. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Select Study Guides
Mankiw, Greg. 2008. Study Guide for Mankiw's Principles of Economics (5th ed.). South-Western College Pub.

Select Textbooks
Mankiw, N. Gregory, and Laurence Ball. 2011 (forthcoming. Macroeconomics and the Financial System. (Free Chapter 19). Worth Publishers.

Mankiw, Greg. 2008. Principles of Macroeconomics (5th ed.). South-Western College Pub.

Select Video and Audio
Benkler, Yochai. 2009. After Selfishness - Wikipedia 1, Hobbes 0 at Half Time. (July 24). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Cassidy, John, and James Surowiecki;The Political Scene: John Cassidy and James Surowiecki on the politics behind Obama’s new economic proposals. (The Political Scene, A weekly podcast about Washington). September 13. New York, NY: The New Yorker.

Ferguson, Charles. 2010. Inside Job Trailers & Video Clips (6 videos). ("A wake-up call of macroeconomic proportions"). Belgium.

Hazard, Merle. 2010. Double Dippin' (music video). http://www.merlehazard.com/

Perry, Mark. 2010. Follow the Money: Human Mobility and Effective Communities. gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/05/follow-money.html

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