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Ip, Greg. 2010. [http://gregip.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/coming-soon-the-little-book-of-economics-how-the-economy-works-in-the-real-world/ The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in The Real World]. New York, NY: Wiley. |
Ip, Greg. 2010. [http://gregip.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/coming-soon-the-little-book-of-economics-how-the-economy-works-in-the-real-world/ The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in The Real World]. New York, NY: Wiley. |
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Advanced Macroeconomics I | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-461-advanced-macroeconomics-i-fall-2009/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Guido Lorenzoni, Prof. Veronica Guerrieri | Browser | Start anytime | English | graduate |
Advanced Macroeconomics II | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-462-advanced-macroeconomics-ii-spring-2004/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. George-Marios Angeletos, Prof. Gilles Saint-Paul | Browser | Start anytime | English | graduate |
Financial Markets | http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/financial-markets/content/sessions.html | Yale University | non-degree | Prof. Robert Schiller | Browser | Theory of finance and its relation to the history, strengths and imperfections of such institutions as banking, insurance, securities, futures, and other derivatives markets, and the future of these institutions | English | |
Game Theory | http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/game-theory/contents/sessions.html | Yale University | non-degree | Prof. Ben Polak | Browser | Introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied. | English | |
Industrial Organization and Public Policy | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-20-industrial-organization-and-public-policy-spring-2003/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Nancy Rose | Browser | Start anytime | English | undergraduate |
Macroeconomic Analysis | http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978376#17255 | UC Berkeley | non-degree | Prof. Steven Wood | Browser | Factors which determine national income, employment, and price levels, vis-a-vis effects of monetary and fiscal policy. | English | |
Microeconomic Analysis | http://webcast.berkeley.edu/rss/course-archive.php?seriesid=1906978301 | UC Berkeley | non-degree | Prof. Gordon Rausser | Browser | Resource allocation and price determination | English | |
Networks | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-15j-networks-fall-2009/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Daron Acemoglu, Prof. Asu Ozdaglar | Browser | Start anytime | English | undergraduate, economics |
Principles of Macroeconomics | http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-02-principles-of-macroeconomics-fall-2009/ | MIT | non-degree | Prof. Veronica Guerrieri | Browser | Start anytime | English | undergraduate |
Principles of Macroeconomics | http://mediasite2.towson.edu/mediasite/Catalog/pages/catalog.aspx?catalogId=7953d8f1-47c0-46df-a87f-2ca7fe6c0a78 - | Towson | non-degree | Prof. Theodore Kariotis - http://pages.towson.edu/tkarioti/ | Browser | Start anytime | English | Economics, Macroeconomics, undergraduate |
Principles of Microeconomics | http://mediasite2.towson.edu/mediasite/Catalog/pages/catalog.aspx?catalogId=23dc6e6e-5301-42ff-ac25-56d1a66279c9 | Towson | non-degree | Prof. Theodore Kariotis - http://pages.towson.edu/tkarioti/ | Browser | Start anytime | English | Economics, Microeconomics, undergraduate |
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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
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Ip, Greg. 2010. The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in The Real World. New York, NY: Wiley.
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Economic Games. 2010. Economic Games. Queensland, Australia: Griffith University and Australian Learning and Teaching Counsel.
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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)
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.
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Mankiw, Greg. 2008. Study Guide for Mankiw's Principles of Economics (5th ed.). South-Western College Pub.
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Mankiw, Greg. 2008. Principles of Macroeconomics (5th ed.). South-Western College Pub.
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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.
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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