Anders Åslund in his "The Myth of Output Collapse after Communism" suggests the declines reported in official statistics grossly overestimate the collapse in GDP because in the Communist era the numbers were inflated so the declines look larger

Robert Barskey and Lutz Kilian, "Oil and the macroeconomy since the 1970s," JEP Fall 2004

J. Bradford DeLong, Macroeconomics Textbook Manifesto. 

J. Bradford DeLong, The Shape of Twentieth Century Economic History  

Brad Delong, "Slouching Toward Utopia"

J. Bradford DeLong, "Slouching Toward Utopia," Regional Review 1998:3

"Economics of happiness," The Economist Aug 27, 2005

Economic Report of the President, 2005

John Katz, When the Economy Goes South: What happens in a recession? Regional Review 1999:3

Alan B. Krueger and Jitka Maleckova, "Education, Poverty, and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?" JEP Fall 2003

Paul Krugman, "Age of anxiety," NYT 11/28/2005

Paul Krugman, "America wants security," NYT May 23, 2005

Sir Richard Layard, Happiness: Lessons from a new science, 2005

Joe Mattey, "Evolution of the quality of life in the US." FRBSF 9/13/1996

Emily Oster, “Witchcraft, weather, and Economic growth in renaissance Europe,” JEP Winter 2004

Peter Passell, "Maybe it Wasn't the Economy in the 1992 Election," New York Times, January 20, 1996

Alan Reynolds" Election Economics," , A Cato Commentary, The Washington Times, September 14, 2003.

 Alice M. Rivlin, Challenges of Modern Capitalism, NE Regional Review 3/2002

Nouriel Roubini, Global Macroeconomics

Nouriel Roubini and David Backus, MBA Lectures in Macroeconomics

Nouriel Roubini U.S. Economy on web site under Current Policy Topics
Nouriel Roubini Is America an Empire? on web site under Current Policy Topics
The Real State of the Union  The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2003

Jacob Scheslinger, "Improving economic signals may no longer deliver votes," WSJ

US Economy  The Cato Institute

Michael Wines, "Zimbabwe's prices rise 900%, turning staples into luxuries," New York Times May 2, 2006)

"whose economy is it anyway?" NYT 12/25/2005

Box Office Hits: Adjusted and Unadjusted for Inflation

Todd E. Clark, Comparing Measures of Core Inflation KC Economic Review 2002:2

Todd E. Clark, A Comparison of the CPI and the PCE Price Index   KC Economic Review 1999:3

"Costs of Living: Official inflation rates suit nobody perfectly," The Economist June 5, 2004

William Powers, "The Massless media," The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2005

P J O’Rourke, “Continental Divides,” The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2005

Part I: The Economy

The $45 Trillion Problem by Nathan Littlefield The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
The Forgotten Home Front

Suspicious Minds

The New Continental Divide

The Overtreated American

The $6,000 Solution

Mongrel America

Spendthrift Nation

The Black Gender Gap

One-Dimensional Growth

The Parent Trap

A Grand Compromise

The Fuel Subsidy We Need

Taking Stock

The American Paradox
Ra

"A refresher on the 1930s," The Economist 9/19/1998

Art projects (murals)

Brad Delong, "The Roaring 20s"

Civil works Admistration (photos)

Conrad Black, "Capitalism's Savior," Wall Street Journal 

John Maynard Keynes, The World's Economic Outlook, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1932

"The New deal: Time for a New Look," Wall Street Journal  

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Forecasting

	Bold Moves: What Governments might accomplish in the next 50 years, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
	David Brooks, "Looking Back on Tomorrow,  The Atlantic Monthly, April 2002
	Geoffrey Colvin, "An executive risk handbook," Fortune 10/3/2005
	Brad DeLong Introduction to Slouching Toward Utopia,
	Famous Predictions From Throughout History,
	Geopolitics and Energy, Key Trends: 2000-2020 by Anthony H. Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies July 2002.
	Info Savy - collection of writings / presentations
	Robert D Kaplan, The world in 2005, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Mar 2002
	Abraham Lustgarten, "Getting ahead of the weather," Fortune 2/7/2005
	Bill McKibben, A special moment in history, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; May 1998  (environment)
	New Economics
	The Next Society, The Economist, November 3, 2001

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1970s International

International

	C. Alan Garner, Offshoring in the Service Sector:  Economic Impact and Policy Issues     KCER 3:2004
	Justin Fox, "Where your job is going," Fortune 11/24/2003
	"Offshoring: Relocating the back office," The Economist 12/13/2003
	Nelson Schwartz, "Will 'made in America' fade away?," TFortune 11/24/2003
	Trade and Finance, IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO)-- September 2002
	Jane Sneddon LittlePerspective: Outsourcing Jobs Overseas: A Cause for Concern? ( NE Regional Review 2/3 2004)
	Summers, "Reflections on managing global integration," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1999

Exchange Rates

	"Better than guesswork?"  The Economist 10/30/1999
	Chiodo & Owyang, "A Case Study of a Currency Crisis: The Russian Default of 1998," St L Economic Review N/D 2002
	Exchange Roller Coasters The strong dollar-weak dollar debate and the vagaries of currency exchange rate regimes.
	Croke...,"Financial market developments and economic activity during current account adjustments in industrial economies," FRB 2005
	"Currency competition," The Economist 9/29/2005
	Thomas Friedman, "Honey I shrunk the dollar." NYT 2/24/2005
	Johnatan Fuerbringer, "talk in Japan shakes dollar and treasurues," 3/11/2005
	Joseph Gagnon, "Currency Crashes and Bond Yields in Industrial Countries," FRB 2005
	Reuven Glick, "The Bretton Woods System: are we experiencing a revival? symposium summary," FRBSF 11/25/2005
	"Hard landing heresy," The economist 9/10/2005
	"How the bug can spread," The Economist 7/21/2001
	Henry Kaufman, "Today's Financial Euphoria Can't Last," WSJ 11/25/1996
	Andrew Kramer, "Awash in petrodollars, Russia frets about paradoxes of bounty," NYT 11/15/2005
	Jane Little, Anatomy of a Currency Crisis: What we can learn from Southeast Asia Regional Review Fall 1997
	Michael R. Pakko and Patricia S. Pollard, Burgernomics: A Big Mac™ Guide to Purchasing Power Parity (PDF 734k), Data (.xls) Michael R. Pakko and Patricia S. Pollard, Burger Survey Provides Taste of International Economics, Regional Economist January 2004
	Eduardo Porter, "Waiting for the petrodollars to trickle down," NYT 10/16/2005
	"Pushing the euro, puling the yen,"  The Economist 7/17/1999
	Mark Speigal, "Japanese Foreign Exchange Intervention," FRBSF Economic Letter 12/12/2003
	"The battle royal for Brazil's real,"  The Economist 9/12/98
	"The dwindling dollar," The Economist 10/29/1994
	"The perils of prediction,"  The Economist  8/1/1998
	"The dwindling dollar,"  The Economist 10/29/1994
	Ronald Wertz, "Exchange Roller Coasters," The Region December 2002
	Nouriel Roubini's Asian Crisis

Euro

History of European Union

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International Monetary Systems 

	Andrew Berg & Eduardo Borensztein, "Full Dollarization: The Pros and Cons," IMF December 2000
	Chang, "Dollarization: A Scorecard," Economic Review Atlanta Fed, 2000:3
	J. Bradford DeLong, "Post-World War II Western European Exceptionalism: The Economic Dimension," in Ivan Berend, ed., Looking at the Marshall Plan (Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming).
	J K Galbraith, "The Brazilian Swindle and the Larger International Monetary Problem," Levy Institute 2002/2
	Kopke, "Currency Board: Once an Future Monetary Regimes?" NE Economic Review M/J 1999
	Jane Sneddon Little and Giovanni Olivei, , "Why the Interest in Reforming the International Monetary System?," NE Economic Review S/O 1999
	Jane Sneddon Little and Giovanni Olivei, "Rethinking the International Monetary System: An Overview” NE Economic Review N/D 1999
	"Man of the hour," The Economist 10/16/1999
	Meltzer & Sachs, "A Blueprint for IMF Reform,"  WSJ
	Pakko & Pollard," Burgernomics: A Big Mac™ Guide to Purchasing Power Parity," St L Economic Review, N/D 2001 (PDF 734k)
	Nouriel Roubini and Brad Setser, "The US as a Net Debtor: The Sustainability of the US Imbalances", Revised November 2004.
	Kenneth Rogoff, "Managing the World ecoomy," The Economist 8/3/2002
	Stiglitz, "Thanks for Nothing," The Atlantic Monthly October 2001
	Summers, "Reflections on managing global integration," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1999
	"The dollar and the deficit," The Economist 9/14/2002
	Velde & Veracierto, "Dollarization in Argentina," Chicago Fed Letter 6/1999
	Nouriel Roubini Debate on IMF and World Bank Reform on web site under International Financial Systems
	Nouriel Roubini Debt Relief for Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)  on web site under International Financial Systems
	Nouriel Roubini Current Global Financial Issues on web site under International Financial Systems
	Jeffrey D. Sachs, How to Run the International Monetary Fund Foreign Policy J/A 2004
	Lawrence H. Summers, America Overdrawn Foreign Policy J/A 2004

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Balance of Payments and Trade

	Cletus C. Coughlin, Michael R. Pakko and William Poole, Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Dangerous?, The Regional Economist, April 2006
	J. Bradford DeLong (1998), "Robber Barons", in Anders Aslund, ed., Perspectives on Russian Economic Development (Moscow: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).
	David Brooks, "Trade, oppression, revenge," NYT 12/25/2005
	Justin Fox, "Where your job is going," Fortune 11/24/2003
	Thomas Friedman, "30 little turtles," NYT 2/29/2005
	Thomas Friedman, "It's a flat world, after all," NYT 4/3/2005
	Thomas Friedman, "What goes around" NYT 2/26/2005
	Thomas Friedman, "smaller and smaller," NYT 3/4/2005
	Linda S. Goldberg and Keith Crockett, "The Dollar and U.S. Manufacturing," FRBNY Current Issues, December   Volume 4, Number 12 1998
	George A. Kahn, Economic Integration: Opportunities and Challenges--A Summary of the Bank's 2000 Symposium   KC Fed
	Hervey & Kouparitas, "Should we be concerned about the current account?," Chicago Fed Letter, April 2000
	Higgins & Klitgaard, "Viewing the current account deficit as a capital inflow," FRBNY Current Issues 12/1998
	Jill A. Holman , "Is the Large U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable?," Chicago Fed Economic Review 2001:1
	Rik Kirkland, "Will the US be flattened by a flatter world?," Fortune 7/27/2005
	Nicholas Kristoff, "A gift to the world, and ourselves," 12/25/2005
	Abraham Lustgarten, "Drug testing goes offshore," Fortune 9/8/2005
	Timothy Obrien, "Are US innovators losing their competitive edge?" NYT 11/13/2005
	"Outsourcing in eastern Europe," The Economist 12/3/2005
	Pakko, "The US Trade deficit and the New Economy," StL Review S/O 1999
	Pakko The U.S. Trade Deficit: Sideshow to the "New Economy"? The Regional Economist April 2002
	Papaioannou & Kei-Mu Yi, "The effects of a booming economy on the US trade deficit," RBNY Current Issues, 2/2001
	Daniel Pink, "The new face of silicon valley," Wired 2/2004
	Saritha rai, "Indians find they can go home," 12/26/2005
	Saritha Rai, "A tutor hal a world away, but as close as the keyboard," NYT 9/7/2005
	John Ralston Saul, "The collapse of globalism: and the rebirth of nationalism," Harpers March 2004
	Nelson Schwartz, "Will 'Made in America' fade away?," Fortune 11/24/2003
	Jeffrey Schott, "Unlocking the benefits of world trade," The Economist 11/1/2003
	Lawrence Summers, Reflections on managing global integration, JEP Spring 1999
	The Controversy Over Free Trade: The Gap Between Economists and the General Public, Cletus C. Coughlin  FRBSF Review J/F 2002
	"The great thrift shift," The Economist 9/24/2005
	Howard Wall, "NAFTA and the Geography of North American Trade," St L Economic Review, M/A 2003
	The Global Economy After September 11, IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), The Global Economy After September 11, December 2001--Contents
	The Information Technology Revolution, IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), The Information Technology Revolution, October 2001--Contents

1970s Money

Readings

	J. Brad DeLong, "America's Only Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s," 12/19/1995
	William F. Hummel, Money : What it is and How it Works A series of short  articles
	Paul Krugman, "The Return of Depression Economics," Foreign Affairs Jan/Feb 1999
	Peltz, "Dear Mr. Greenspan," Worth J/A 2002
	Romer & Romer, "Monetary Policy and the Well-Being of the Poor," KC Economic Review 1999:1
	Jack and the beanstalk - and money

The fed and asset markets

	"Bubble trouble," The Economist 9/4/1999
	Andrew J. Filardo, "Monetary Policy and Asset Prices," KC Fed Economic Review, 2000:3
	Holcomb & Hussain, "Asset price bubbles: implications for monetary regulatory, and international policies." Chicago Fed Letter 9/2002
	"Hubble, bubble, inflation trouble?," The Economist 5/9/1998
	Nouriel Roubini Is the Fed Causing an Asset Bubble? on the web site under International Financial Systems

The fed and its policies

	Ben S. Bernanke, Alan S. Blinder, and Bennett T. McCallum, Panel Discussion I: What Have We Learned Since October 1979? FRBSTL Review M/A 2005
	R. W. Hafer and David C. Wheelock, "The Rise and Fall of a Policy Rule: Monetarism at the St. Louis Fed, 1968-1986 ,"  FRBSTL Review J/F 2001
	R.W. Hafer, What Remains of Monetarism?,  Atlanta FRB Economic Review 2001:IV
	Kozicki, "How Useful Are Taylor Rules for Monetary Policy?" KC Economic Review 1999:2
	David E. Lindsey, Athanasios Orphanides, and Robert H. Rasche, "The Reform of October 1979: How It Happened and Why" FRBSTL Review M/A 2005
	Allan H. Meltzer, Origins of the Great Inflation  FRBSTL Review M/A 2005
	Laurence H. Meyer, Does Money Matter,  FRBSTL Review, S/O 2001
	"Monopoly power over money," The Economist, November 20, 1999
	Patricia S. Pollard, "A Look Inside Two Central Banks: The European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve,"  FRBSTL Review J/F 2003
	Poole, "Monetary policy rules," StLFed Review M/A 1999
	"The central banker as god," The Economist 11/14/1998
	William Poole, Volcker’s Handling of the Great Inflation Taught Us Much Regional Economist, 1/2005

Background Material

 

	Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,"
	Richard N. Cooper and Jane Sneddon Little, “U.S. Monetary Policy in an Integrating World: 1960 to 2000” NE Economic Review 2001:3Abstract + Full text PDF
	"More bubble and squeak," The Economist 4/20/2002
	Pu Shen, "How Important Is the Inflation Risk Premium?" KC Economic Review 1998:4

History of money

	"Crisp and even" The Economist 12/22/2001
	Glyn Davies, Money in North American History. From Wampum to Electronic Funds Transfer
	"Money matters: The American Experience with Money," Chicago Fed
	R. A. Radford, "The Economic Organization of a P.O.W. Camp," Economica 1945, pp. 189-201.
	Ron's Currency... The History of U.S. Paper Money
	François R. Velde, Following the yellow brick road: How the United States adopted the gold standard
	Wizard of Oz Littlefield American Monetary Institute
	Learning Network, U.S. Money History
	Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars 1800 to the Present
	Consumer Price Indexes, from the Department of Labor
	Conversion of Dollars Adjusting for Inflation
	What was the Inflation Rate Then?[Calculator of Periods of Inflation]

Interest rates

Forces That Shape the Yield Curve, Mark Fisher, Atlanta FRB Economic Review 2001

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1980s

Reaganomics

	Robert Barskey and Lutz Kilian, "Oil and the macroeconomy since the 1970s," JEP Fall 2004
	Bill Keller, "THE RADICAL PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BUSH; Reagan's Son",   NYT Sunday Magazine, January 26, 2003, Sunday
	Bharat Trehan, "Why hasn't the jump in oil prices led to a recession," FRBSF 11/18/2005
	Bill Keller, "Reagan's Son," NYT 1/26/2003

Economic growth

	President Carter's Malaise speech
	Center for International Development: Geography and Economic Growth
	Abed & Davoodi, Challenges of Growth and Globalization in the Middle East and North Africa IMF Sep 2003
	D Acemoglu,..., "The colonial origins of comparative development: an empirical investigation," AER December 2001
	David Aschauer, "Rx for productivity: build infrastructure," Chicago Fed Letter 9/1988
	Anders Åslund, "The Myth of Output Collapse after Communism," Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001
	Robert Barro & Rachel McCleary, "Religion and economic growth," NBER WP 9682
	Scott Baier...., "Modern economic growth and recent stagnation," Economic Review (Atlanta) 2003:3
	Fred Block, "The 'Thing' Economy and the 'Care' Economy," Alternet.org Nov 7, 2003
	Lynn Elaine Browne and Rebecca Hellerstein, "Are We Investing Too Little?," NEER N/D 1997
	Crafts, Nicholas. "Forging ahead and falling behind: the rise and relative decline of the first industrial nation." JEP. Spring 1998
	Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Tony Addison with Sampsa Kiiski's article, "Income Distribution Changes and their Impact in the Post-World War II Period" describe the magnitude of the growing inequality internationally
	Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Julius Courtin's  "Inequality, Growth and Poverty in the Era of Liberalization and Globalization" (UN Policy Brief No. 4, 2001)
	Douglas Dalenberg & Randall Eberts, "Public intrastructire and economic develpoment," Economic Commentary 1/15/1988
	Brad Delong, "The meaning of economic growth,"
	J. Bradford DeLong, "What Do We Really Know About Economic Growth?" in Michael Boskin., ed., Economic Growth (Stanford: Hoover Institution, forthcoming).
	J. Bradford DeLong (1993), "Very Long-Run Economic Growth, ca. 1870-1990," in Horst Siebert, ed., Economic Growth in the World Economy (Kiel: Institute for World Economics).
	J. Bradford DeLong and Lawrence H. Summers (1993), "Macroeconomic Policy and Long-Run Growth," Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Quarterly Review.
	J. Bradford DeLong (1997), "Renewing Economic Growth: Lessons from More than a Decade of Research." (Washington, DC: ACCF).
	Jared Diamond, Guns, germs, and steel," 1997
	David Dollar & Aart Kraay, "Economic growth is good for the poor," World Bank 2000
	Chrys Dougherty and Dale Jorgenson,  "International Comparisons of the Sources of Economic Growth", American Economic Review, vol. 86, no. 2, May 1996, pp. 25-29
	Steven Dowrick and J. Bradford DeLong, "Globalisation and Convergence," in Jeffrey Williamson, ed., Globalization in Historical Perspective (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
	Richard Easterlin, "The worldwide standard of living since 1800," JEP Winter 2000
	William Easterly & Ross Levine, "tropics, germs, and Crops: How endowments influence development," NBER WP 9106
	Stephen Easton and  Michael Walker,  "Income, Growth, and Economic Freedom," American Economic Review, vol. 87, no. 2, May 1997, pp. 328-32
	"Economic reform and growth." AER. May 1996
	Sebastian Edwards, "Openness, productivity and growth: What do we really know," Economic Journal March 1998
	Sebastian Edwards, "Why are savings rates so different across countries? An international comparative analysis. NBER WP 5097 April 1995
	Roger Ferguson& WilliamWascher, "Distinguised lecture on economics in government: lessons from past productivity booms," JEP Spring 2004
	Charles Fishman, "The toll of a new machine," Fast Company May 2004
	Christopher Foote, William Block, Keith Crane and Simon Gray, "Economic Policy and Prospects in Iraq," JEP Summer 2004
	Frazier Institute, Economic Freedom of the World (index)
	Timothy Frye and Andrei Shleifer, "The Invisible Hand and the Grabbing Hand," American Economic Review, vol. 87, no. 2, May 1997, pp. 354-58
	God, man, and growth," The Economist 11/15/2003
	Robin Grier, "Colonial legacies and economic growth," Public Choice March 1999
	Growth and Institutions, IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO)-- April 2003
	Robert Hall and Charles Jones,  "Levels of Economic Activity across Countries," American Economic Review, vol. 87, no. 2, May 1997, pp. 173-77
	Robert Hall and Charles Jones, "why do some countries produce so much more output per worker than other countries," Quarterly Journal of Economics 1999
	Hall, Robert E. and Charles Jones. "What we have learned from recent empirical growth research." AER.   May 1997
	Milka S. Kirova and Robert E. Lipsey, "Measuring Real Investment: Trends in the United States and International Comparisons" Review, StLFRB, J/F 1998
	Kenneth Kasa, "Growth and government policy: lessons from Hong Kong and Singapore," FRBSF 10/21/1994
	Kevin L. Kliesen and Frank A. Schmid, Fear of Hell Might Fire Up the Economy, The Regional Economist July 2004
	Timur Kuran, "Why the Middle East is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation," JEP Summer 2004
	David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, 1998
	Angus Maddison, The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, Development Centre of the Orgnization for Economic C0-Operation and Development, 2001
	Preston Miller and James Schmitz, "Breaking down the barriers to technological progress," Minn Fed 1996 Annual Report biblio to other studies)
	Ming Lu, Jianyong Fan, Shejian Liu, and Yan Yan, Employment restructuring during China’s economic transition," Monthly Labor Review August 2002
	"New growth theory and economic history: match or mismatch?" AER. May 1996
	Marcus Noland,  Religion, Culture, and Economic Performance by Institute for International Economics Sep 2003
	"Out of anarchy," The Economist 2/19/2000
	"Poverty and the ballot box," The Economist 5/14/2005
	Lant Pritchett,  "Divergence, big time." JEP. Summer 1997
	"Roots of development,"  The Economist 10/5/2002
	Jeffrey Sachs, "Tropical Underdevelopment," CID September 2000
	Jeffrey Sachs, "Nature, nurture, and growth," The Economist 6 / 14 / 1997
	Jeffrey Sachs..., "Ending Africa's Poverty Trap," Brookings Institution 2004
	Jeffrey Sachs, "Helping the world's poorest," The Economist
	Jeffrey D Sachs and Andrew Warner,  "Fundamental Sources of Long-Run Growth," American Economic Review, vol. 87, no. 2, May 1997, pp. 184-88
	Xavier Sala-i-Martin, "I Just Ran Two Million Regressions," American Economic Review, vol. 87, no. 2, May 1997, pp. 178-83
	Xavier Sala-i-Martin's Syllabus, ECONOMICS G6301, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT I (Fall 2002)
	Marcelo Selowsky and Ricardo Martin, "Policy Performance and Output Growth in the Transition Economies," American Economic Review, vol. 87, no. 2, May 1997, pp. 349-53
	"The devil's excrement," The Economist 5/24/2003
	"The global menace of local strife," The Economist 5/24/2003
	"The road to hell is unpaved," The Economist 12/21/2002
	Bhat Trehan, "Trade and growth: some recent evidence," FRBSF 7/1/1994
	World Bank's 2000 World Development Indicators
	World Bank, 2006 World Development Report - Equity and Development.
	World Bank's "Doing Business"
	Tarik Yousel, "Development, Growth and Policy Reform in the Middle East and North Africa since 1950," JEP Summer 2004

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1990s

Setting

	James Dale Davidson, "The depression of the 1990s-It's already here," WSJ 2/11/1993
	Cogley, "The recession, the recovery, and the productivity slowdown," FRBSF Weekly Letter 1/8/93
	"Hard Times Again," The Economist 1/5/1991
	Paul McCracken, "Better times ahead, WSJ 7/21/93
	Ellen R. McGrattan and Edward C. Prescott, Productivity and the Post-1990 U.S. Economy StLFED Review J/A 2005
	Motley, "The sources of the growth slowdown" FRBSF Weekly Letter 2/5/93
	Motley, "The landing was harder than we thought!," FRBSF Weekly Letter 10/19/90
	Brian O'Reilly, "Preparing for leaner times," Fortune 1/27/92
	Pennar & McNamee, "The new face of recession," Business Week 12/24/1990
	Pennar, "Ask not what your economy can do for you...," Business Week 12/17/1990
	Allen Sinai, "What's Wrong with the Economy?," Challenge N/D 1992
	"The American dream, the American nightmare," The Economist 10/7/89
	Throop,"The Slow Recovery," FRBSF Weekly Letter 9/25/92
	Trehan, "TAn unprecedented slowdown," FRBSF Weekly Letter 5/8/92
	Trenholme, "Where's the recovery?" FRBSF Weekly Letter 11/27/92
	Uchitelle, "Not getting ahead? better get used to it.," NYT 12/16/90

New Economy (I&E Reading List)

	W. Brian Arthur, "Why tech is still the future," fortune 11/24/2003
	"Lessons from the tax reforms of the 1980s." AER. May 1995
	Phineas Baxandall, Taxing Habits
	Joseph J Cordes, "Reconciling normative and positive theories of government." AER May 1997
	J. Bradford DeLong, "Macroeconomic Vulnerabilities in the Twenty-First Century Economy: A Preliminary Taxonomy," International Finance 2002:2. Also in Adam Posen, ed., Stabilization Policy: Why and How? (New York: Council on Foreign Relations). Slides for conference presentation.
	John D Donahue,  "Tiebout? or not Tiebout? The market metaphor and America's devolution." JEP. Fall 1997
	Robert Heilbroner, "Anti-depression economics," The Atlantic Monthly April 2003
	Richard Musgrave,  "Devolution, grants, and fiscal competition." JEP Fall 1997
	E. Matthew Quigley  state financial crises
	Joseph Stiglitz, "Distinguished lecture on economics in government: The private uses of public interests: Incentives and Institutions." JEP. Spring 1998
	Vito Tanzi and Ludger Schukenecht. "Reconsidering the fiscal role of government: The international perspective." AER May 1997
	Alan Tonelson, "Clinton's World," The Atlantic Monthly February 1993
	The Return of Big Government
	The 21st Century Economy, Business Week, Aug 24-31, 1998
	21st Century Capitalism, Business Week, Nov 18, 1994
	What's left?," The Economist 5/12/2001
	Nouriel Roubini New Economy and Productivity Growth on web site under Current Policy Topics

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2000s

Kevin Kliesen, Do We Have a Saving Crisis? StL Regional Economist July 2005

2000s Bush Macro Policies

	"Briefings: At issue in the 2004 Election," Harpers July 2004
	Budget Options, 2001
	Colvin, "Soaking the rich? Better believe it." Fortune 4/14/2003
	"The suits inside the battledress," The Economist 4/19/2003
	Citizens for Tax Justice, "How Do the Bush Tax Cuts Effect Your State? New Fact Sheets Available" 11.25.03
	Law
	CTJ Analysis of Revised Bush Tax Plan
	resident Bush Signs HR 2, Containing Major Tax Cut for ..
	Tax, Legal, Legislative Highlights: President Bush Signs Tax-Cut .
	ext of the of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act of
	Agenda for tax relief released in February 2001, and signed into law as the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act of 2001 [text of the of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act of 2001
	Crimes Against Nature, Bush is sabotaging the laws that have protected America's environment for more than thirty years, By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	Nouriel Roubini China's Economy    and  Geo-Strategic Implications of a Rising China on web site under Current Policy Topics

Election

	New York Times election
	Presidential election maps...
	Election maps (UVA) all presidential elections
	Liep's election maps
	Presidents of US
	US Senate History
	2004 Election map (UMich)

History

	250 Best movies
	Advertising in US history
	American History Timeline - Smithsonian Institution
	"A Taste of Adventure," The Economist, December 19, 1998
	Michael Bordo, Barry Eichengreen and Douglas Irwin (1999), "Is Globalization Today Really Different from Globalization a Hundred Years Ago?"
	China history
	Condensed China history
	Brad DeLong Slouching Towards Utopia: Old Draft;
	Digital Archive of Architecture and Digital Archive of American Architecture.
	Eagleton Political History
	EH-Net (Economic History page) links to data for US & UK
	Famous trials
	Stefano Fenoaltea (1988), "International Resource Flows and Construction Movements in the Atlantic Economy: The Kuznets Cycle in Italy, 1861-1913," Journal of Economic History 48, pp.605-637.
	Geostat Center: Collections: Historical Census Browser
	Global Connections Middle East::  PBS Timeline
	Historical Census Statistics on Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For The United States, Regions, Divisions, and States
	"Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States: 1850-1990"
	Historical Decennial Census Population and Housing Unit Counts, 1790-1990
	Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
	Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
	History Channel technology timeline
	History Timelines on the Web ... The History Beat
	Thomas Hughes, " Industrial Revolutions: From Canal Systems to Computer Networks," the Gould Distinguished Lecture Series, Annual Address in 2000.
	Indus history
	India history
	Hans Koning, Notes on the twentieth century, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Sep 1997
	LiteraryCritic.com -- Home (list of 100 BIG books)
	Medievil prices
	Metropolitan Museum
	Modern Inventions (About.com)
	NBER Historical data
	Ottomans
	Pre-WWI Gold Standard            Financial Crises in the 1890s and 1990s
	Presidential election maps...
	Television History - The First 75 Years
	territorial expansion maps
	Timelines.Info - Graphical Timelines of World History
	Timelines in US advertising
	Timelines - AlternaTime
	Timelines.Info - Graphical Timelines of World History
	Timelines - AlternaTime
	United States Historical Census Browser (1790-1960) 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places: 1790 to 1990 Demographic Trends in the 20th Century
	WhoWhatWhen - Interactive Historical Timelines
	Jeffrey Williamson (1996), "Globalization, Convergence, and History," Journal of Economic History 56, pp.277-306.

technology

• Avinash Persaud, "The Knowledge Gap," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2001
• Craig S. Hakkio, "Economic Policy for the Information Economy--A Summary of the Bank's 2001 Economic Symposium," KC Fed Economic Review, 2001:4

National security

• John B. Judis, Imperial Amnesia," Foreign Policy, July/August 2004
• Ian Bremmer, "Are the US and China on a collision course? Fortune 1/24/2004
• Simon Romero, China emerging as US rival for Canada' oil," NYT 12/23/2004

• Benjamin DeMott, “Whitewash as public service: How the 9/11 commission report defrauds the nation.” Harpers Oct 2004

• Center for New American Century

• Richard Goodwin, Making the facts fit the case of war,"  NYT 2/8/2004

Maps

• animated map of Europe
• geography 
• education place
• map of the growth of the world's population
• on-line maps
• Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
• ancient maps
• blank US maps

Students

writing/speaking

Jennifer Reingold, "Behind the curtain," Fast Company October 2004

Kristie Engeman, Leora Friedberg, and Michael Owyang, "Keep your resume current," The Regional Economist J 2005

Careers

Engemann, Friedberg, andOwang, "Keep your resume current,"  The Regional Economist Jan 2005

Research Methods  

• Infosavy Presentation Handouts
• Creating Knock Your Socks Off Presentations
• Infosavy Presentation Handouts

Internet & Economy

Hal Varian web page

Pew Internet Project

Hal Varian The Information Economy

N. Economides, Network Economics

World Information Technology Alliance

Crime

• Bureau of Justice Statistics: Prison Statistics
  • Prisoners in 2002
  • Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001
  • Lifetime Likelihood of Going to State or Federal Prison

Social Security

	Resource Center on Ageing, UC Berkely
	BC Center on retirement
	Social Security online Social Security Bulletin History Chronology Key dates in history Legislative History OASIS History articles Reports & Studies Reprints of Anniversary Issues of OASIS magazine (SSA) Texts of statements at 1935 Congressional Hearing Why Social Security (1937 Social Security Board Pamphlet) International update Facts & figures 2004 Statistical Tables Annual Statistical Supplement, 2004 Social Security Annual Statistics 2003 (data and history) trust fund data
	Congressional Budget Office Social Security: A Primer, September 2001 Testimony on Budgetary Perspectives on the Outlook for Social Security, February 9, 2005 Social Security and the Federal Budget: The Necessity of Maintaining a Comprehensive Long-Range Perspective, August 1, 2002 How Pension Financing Affects Returns to Different Generations, September 22, 2004 SS and the federal budget, Social Security: A Primer (September 2001) A 125-Year Picture of the Federal Government's Share of the Economy, 1950 to 2075, (July 3, 2002) The Looming Budgetary Impact of Society's Aging, (July 3, 2002).

Johnathan Chalt, "A principled case for obstruction," The New republic 3/21/05

Robert Clark, "Social Security financing: facts, fab=ntasies, foibles, and follies," AER May 2004

Henrik Kronquist and Richard Thaler, "Design choices in privatized Social-Security systems: Learning from the SAwedisn example," AER May 2004

Thomas A. Garrett and Russell M. Rhine, Social Security versus Private Retirement Accounts: A Historical Analysis, StL Review M/A 2005

Gerald Dwyer, "Social Security Private Accounts: A Risky Proposition?" FRB Atlanta 2005:3
Data (.xls)

Craig Hakkio and Elisha J. Wisema, Social Security and Medicare: The Impending Fiscal Challenge, KC Fed M/A 2006 

"Reforming social security." AER. May 1996

"Social security and the real economy." AER. May 1998

"The shift away from thrift," The Economist 4/9/2005