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'''Freshman Economics'''

Harvard Professor of Economic's 2009 Freshman Seminar:

The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner

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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

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

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Barro, Robert. 2010. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703959704575454431457720188.html 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. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29tyson.html Why We Need a Second Stimulus]. New York, NY: The New York Times.

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