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Readings MICRO(Top)
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Macro Readings)

Books
- Levitt & , Freakonomocs,
- Juliet Schor, Born to Buy,
- Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics,
W W Norton 2002
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An Introduction to Economics
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"Catching
up," The Economist, 8/23/2003 |
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Nobel war maps |
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"A nation
apart: A survey of America," The Economist 11/8/2003 |
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Armen
Alchian, "Of Golf, Capitalism and Socialism," Wall Street
Journal |
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Apul Altman,
"Help wanted: academic economists, pro-Bush," NYT 11/27/2005 |
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W. Brian
Arthur, "Why tech is still the future," Fortune 11/24/2003 |
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Kevin Baker,
"We're in the Army now: The GOP's plan to militarized our culture,"
Harpers October 2003 |
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Robert Bates,
"On The Politics of Property Rights by Haber, Razo, and Maurer,"
JEL June 2004 |
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Fred
Bergstrom, “The risks ahead for the world economy,” The Economist
9/11/2004 |
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Gordon
Bigelow, "Let there be markets: The evangelical roots of economics,"
Harpers May 2005 |
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David Brooks,
"Fly the partisan skies," NYT
4/6/2004 |
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David Brooks,
"The Bursting Point," NYT September 4, 2005 |
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Gordon Brown,
"Old Europe's Choices," Wall Street Journal
10/16/2003 |
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Michael
Cardarelli, "Why Cranston must charge for sports," Providence
Journal |
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Clayton
Christensen, Thomas Craig, and Stuart Hart, "The Great
Disruption, Foreign
Affairs 2001 |
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Douglas Clement,
"Thinking Like an Economist: A workshop
on economic principles," Minn Fed 9/2003 |
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Deepening democracy in a
fragmented world,
UN's 2002 Human Development
Report, |
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"Dept. of
Corrections" Harpers 6/2001 |
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Jared
Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," WW
Norton |
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Robert
Dreyfuss, "The Thirty-Year
Itch," Mother Jones Diary, March/April 2003
Issue |
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"Peter
Drucker sets us straight," Fortune 1/12/2004 |
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Peter
Drucker, "Beyond the Information
Revolution," The
Atlantic Monthly 10/1999 |
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Peter
Drucker, "The Age of Social
Transformation," The
Atlantic Monthly 11/1994 |
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John Elson,
"Has history come to an end" Time, 9/4/1989 |
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"Europe's
Scrap-heap" The Economist 8/18/2001 |
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"Evident
truths," Harpers July 2004 |
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James Fallows,
What is an economy
for? The Atlantic
Monthly; 1/1994 |
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James Fallows,
"Countdown to a
Meltdown," The
Atlantic Monthly August 2005 |
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Francis
Fukuyama, The Great
Disruption, The
Atlantic Monthly;
Boston; May 1999 |
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Goldilocks
Politics," The Economist 12/19/1998 |
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John Taylor
Gatto, "Against School," Harpers September 2003 |
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"Go west,
young Han," The Economist 12/23/2000 |
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Ted Halstead,
The American
paradox, The
Atlantic Monthly;
Boston; Jan/Feb 2003 |
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Rob Hebert,
"A radical in the White House," NYT April 18, 2005 |
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Peter S.
Heller, Who Will Pay? Coping with Aging
Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal
Challenges
International Monetary Fund November
2003 |
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Jack High,
"To Park or Not To Park: Let the Market Decide." The Margin
November 1987 |
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Arlie Russell
Hochschild, A generation without public
passion, The Atlantic
Monthly; Boston;
Feb 2001 |
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Robert
Hormats, "The Technologies of Freedom," Wall Street Journal
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"Human
evolution: Homo economicus? The Economist, 4/9/2005 |
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Samuel
Huntington, "The Clash of
Civilization?"
Foreign Affairs Summer 1993 |
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"Introducing Big
Government," The
Economist 12/31/1999 |
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Michael
Janofsky, "Professor's politics draw lawmakers into the fray," NYT
12/15/2005 |
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Robert D
Kaplan, Was democracy just a
moment?, The
Atlantic Monthly;
Boston; Dec 1997 |
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David Kein,
The People’s Romance: Why People Love
Government (as much as they do)," Santa Clara Working Paper May 2005
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Alan Krueger
and Jitka Malechova, "Education, poverty and terrorism: Is there a causal
connection,?" JEP Fall 3003 |
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Anne O. Krueger,
"Reporting Economics Well," Minn Fed
9/2003 |
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Paul Krugman,
"Bums and Rushes" NYT 2/7/2001 |
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Paul Krugman,
“The big uneasy,” NYT September 23, 2005 |
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David Landes,
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Are Some So Rich and Others So
Poor?, WW Norton 1998 |
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Christopher
Lasch, "The revolt of the elites," Harpers 11/1994 |
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"liberalism
regained: building the next progressive majority," Harpers August
2004 |
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Nathan
Littlefield, "The $45 Trillion Problem," The Atlantic Monthly J/F
2004 |
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Angus
Maddison, "Poor Until 1820," WSJ
1/11/1999 |
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John
Markoff, "A Rebel in Japan, an Inventor is Hailed as an Innovator
in US," NYT 9/18/2002 |
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Casey
Mulligan, Ricard Gil, and Xavier Sala-i-Martin, "Do democracies have
different public policies than nondemocracies?" JEP Winter
2004 |
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Bill Moyers,
"This is your story - The progressive
story of America - Pass it on," Common dreams 6/12/2003 |
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Rob Norton,
"Dumbed-Down Economics," Fortune 1/7/2002 |
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William
Pfaff," What we've lost: George AW Bush and the price of torture," Harpers
November 2005 |
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Edmund
Phelps, "The Global Crisis of Corporatism," Wall Street Journal
3/25/1999 |
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Ken
Pomerantz, The Great Disruption, Princeton University Press,
2000 |
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Francine
Prose, "Voting democracy off the island: reality TV and Republican ethos,"
Harpers March 2004 |
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Jonathan
Rauch, "Reversing White
Flight," The
Atlantic Monthly October 2002 |
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Frank Rich,
"Bring back Warren harding,"" NYT September 25, 2005 |
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Frank Rich,
"The mysterious death of Pat Tillman," New York Times November 6,
2005 |
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Frank Rich,
"Why they won," New York Times November 5,
2004 |
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Shawn
Ritenour, "How Subsidies Kill Symphonies," Wall Street Journal
4/8/1997 |
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Jeffrey
Sachs, " Welcome to the Asian century," Fortune
4/17/2004 |
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Jeffrey
Sachs, "The geography of economic development," NWC Review, Autumn
2000 |
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Murray Sayle,
The Social Contradictions of Japanese
Capitalism, The
Atlantic Monthly;
Boston; Jun 1998 |
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S Sato,
"Clash of civilizations or
self-renovation through mutual learning?," Asia Pacific Review 10/1997 |
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Thom Shanker
& David Stout, "Vietnam arvhive casts a shadow across decades," NYT
Nov. 17, 2005 |
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Robert
Shiller, "American Casino," The Atlantic Monthly, March 2005 |
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Andre
Shleifer, "Does competition destroy ethical behavior,? AER May
2004 |
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Frederick
Simpich, "Today's World Turns on oil," National Geographic, June
1941 |
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Mark Slouka,
"Quitting the paint factory," Harpers November 2004 |
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Rebecca
Solnit, "The Uses of Disaster: Notes on bad weather and good government,"
Harpers October 2005 |
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Ron Suskind,
"Without a doubt," New York Times 10/17/2004 |
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"The good
(and bad) model guide" The Economist 4/10/1999 |
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"The road to
riches," The Economist 12/31/1999 |
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The United
Nations, Harpers 2005 |
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"This is
Monika. I'm Over the Wall" Wall Street Journal |
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Lester Thurow
"Building Wealth" The Atlantic Monthly, June
1999 |
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John Tierney, “Losing that new deal
religion,” September 24, 2005 |
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"To each
according to his abilities," The Economist
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Steven
Weinburg, "Five and a half
utopias," The
Atlantic Monthly January 2000 |
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Where the
liberal things are." Harpers October
2004 |
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Nouriel Roubini
China's Economy and Geo-Strategic Implications of a Rising
China on web site under
Current Policy
Topics |
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Data Analysis
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By the Numbers: China and the United
States The
Region, Minn Fed 12/2003 |
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"Catching
up," The Economist, 8/23/2003 |
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Matthew
Chapman, "God or gorilla: A darwin descendent at the Dover moneky trial,"
Harpers February 2006 |
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Jack Curry,
"BASEBALL; Damon's Agent Eager For Stats to Be Binding," NYT
11/22/2005 |
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Robert
Cushing and Bill Bishop, "The rural war," NYT July 20, 2005
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Bob Davis,
"Class Warfare: Dueling Professors Have Milwaukee Dazed Over Vouchers,"
Wall Street Journal October 11,
1996 |
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John
DiLulio, Jr. "What the Crime Statistics Don't Tell You," Wall Street
Journal January 8, 1997 |
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James
Fallows, "Low-Class
Conclusions," The
Atlantic Monthly; April 1993 |
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Austan
Gollsbee, "How Rankings Rate," New York Times 4/12/2004
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Lori
Gotlieb, "How do I love thee,?" The Atlantic Monthly March 2006
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Brian
Greene, "That famous equation and you," New York Times, September
30, 2005 |
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Joshua
Green, "The numbers war," The Atlantic Monthly May 2006
|
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"Gut
reactions." The Economist,
12/9/1995 |
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Keith
Hammonds, "Billy Beane," Fast Company May 2003
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"He said,
she said, nobody knew," The Economist 11/20/2004
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Patrick Hruby,
"616* (* no asterisk required)," ESPN
online Thursday, May 11, 2006 Updated: May 22,
9:10 AM ET |
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"If you
consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly,"
The Economist 8/23/2003 |
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Jane Katz,
"Making the
Numbers, How companies
manage earnings," Regional Review 2000:1
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Gina Kolata,
"Data on deaths from obesity is inflated, US agency says," New York
Times 11/24/2004 |
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Paul Krugman,
"Big Box Balderdash," NYT 12/12/2005 |
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Paul Krugman,
"Enemy of the planet," NYT April 17, 2006 |
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Paul Krugman,
"Weapons of math destruction," NYT
4/14/2006 |
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Joshua
Kurlantzick, ""Economy of scale: President Bush has been no friend to
small business," Harpers, July 2004 |
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Bruno Latour,
"The last Critique," Harpers April
4004 |
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Lee
McIntyre, "The Murder
Mystery," Regional
Review 2000:1 Explaining the recent drop in homicide
|
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Michael Pakko, The Economics of Smoking
Bans, The Regional Economsit
July 2005 |
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John Allen
Paulos, "Counting on Dysalculia," Discover March 1994
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Frank Rich,
"Truthiness 101: From Frey to Alito," NYT 1/22/2006
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Donna
Rosato, "Worried About Corporate Numbers? How About the Charts,"
New York Times, September 15,
2003 |
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Richard
Rosenfeld, "What Democracy? The case for abolishing the United States
senate." Harpers May 2004 |
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"School
reform in danger," NYT editorial
5/8/2006 |
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"Signifying
nothing: Too many economists misuse statistics," The Economist
1/31/2004 |
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Source of our Problems
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"The Iraqi
war: Counting the casualties," The Economist 11/6/2004
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Linda
Tischler, Tech for Toques," Fast Company May
2005 |
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Edward
Tufte, "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint," May 2003
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Louis
Uchitelle, "In Home Ownership Data, a Hidden Generation Gap," New
York Times, September 26, 1999 |
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Miriam
Wasserman, "Mining Data," Regional Review 2000:3
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"White House
Effect," Harpers May 2004 |
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JoAnn
Wypijewski, "Judgement days: Lessons from Abu Ghraib courts- martial,"
Harpers Feb
2006 |
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Opportunity
Cost
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Jacck Beatty,
"The Right
Thing?," The
Atlantic Monthly October 2004 |
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Jack Beatty,
The Butcher's
Bill
The Atlantic Monthly December 2004
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Linda Blimes,
"waging the into our war" US Today, ?? |
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"EVA Analysis" University of Illinois, Chicago
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James
Fallows, "Bush's Lost Year," The Atlantic Monthly October
2004 |
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Fortune series on business choices6/27/2005
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Michael
Useem and Jerry Useem, "Great Escapes"
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"Jim
Collins on Tough Calls" |
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"20
That Made
History" |
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Ronald
Glasser, "A War of disabilities: Iraq's hidden costs are coming home,"
cuff July 2005 |
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Rauch, "if
you keep son reigned, Levy is going to break: the loss of New Orleans
wasn't just a tragedy, it was a plan," This Reason, September 19,
2005 |
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"Shawn Tully,
"America's Greatest Wealth
Creators," Fortune
11/9/1998 |
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Louis Uchitelle, "Disasters waiting to happen,"
NYT September 11, 2005 |
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Louis Uchitelle, "When talk of guns and butter
includes lives lost," NYT January 15,
2006 |
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Cost-benefit
analysis
http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/cost_of_war_in_iraq.pdf
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International trade
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Cletus C.
Coughlin, "The Controversy Over Free Trade: The Gap
Between Economists and the General Public," FRBSF Review J/F 2002 |
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Samuel
Huntington, "The Clash of
Civilization?"
Foreign Affairs Summer 1993 |
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Paul Kennedy,
"Introduction" in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers |
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George
Melloan, "Denying China Trade Won't Soften It's Tough Guys," Wall
Street Journal 3/14/2000 |
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"A Taste of
Adventure," The
Economist, December 19, 1998 |
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World of
Spice, American Spice
Trade Association |
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Thee Age of Discovery
1340-1600 (map), from
Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923
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Historical maps of the
world |
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The British Empire |
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Map - British Empire |
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Supply & demand
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Hollywood Stock Exchange |
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DOE Chronology of oil
prices |
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Gary Becker,
"It's Simple: Hike the Minimum Wage, and Put People out of Work"
Business Week 3/6/1995 |
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Berg,
Forsythe, Nelson, Reitz, "Results from a Dozen Years of Election
Futures Markets Research," 2000 |
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John Campbell, "The Market for
Hotels: If they come,
will you build it?" Regional Review
1998:2 |
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Carrie
Conway, Diagnosis: Shortage. The Past, Present,
and Future of the Registered Nurse Workforce, Regional Review 2001:3 |
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"Drowning in
coffee," The Economist 9/20/2001 |
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Robert Frank,
"Pricing the ballgame," NYT
12/4/2002 |
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"Guessing
games," The Economist 11/20/2004 |
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Wade Graham,
"A Hundred Rivers Run through It," Harpers June 1998 |
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Erica Goshen
& Colin Drozdowski, "The Recent Rise in the Value of Education: Market
Forces at Work," Economic Commentary 8/15/1992 |
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Jeremy Kahn,
"The man who would have us bet on terrorism," Fortune
9/15/2003 |
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Steven Saul,
Making a fortune by
wagering that drug prices tend to rise, NYT 1/26/2005
|
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Ronald
Schmidt, "Diamonds and water: a paradox
revisited," FRBSF
Weekly Letter 12/4/1992 |
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Kim Sosin's interactive site at the University of South
Carolina |
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Nicholas
Stein, "Crisis in a Coffee Cup," Fortune 12/9/2002 |
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"Surely not
rent controls?" The Economist
4/8/1995 |
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US Department
of Health and Human Services, The Pharmacist
Shortage in
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David Warsh,
"In which the Internet threatens Holland," Boston
Globe |
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Miriam
Wasserman, "Trouble in Coffee
Lands," NE Fed Regional
Review, 2002:2 |
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World
Agricultural Outlook Board, Office of the Chief Economist, U.S. Department
of Agriculture, World Agricultural Supply and Demand
Estimates |
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Madeline
Zavodny, "Why minimum wage hikes may not reduce
employment," FRBtl
Economic Review 1998:2 |
Oil & energy
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Richard
Anderson and Jason Buol, "What is driving oil
prices?,"
Regional Economist Jan 2005 |
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Tim
Appenzeller, "The end of cheap oil," National Geographic June
2004 |
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Robert Barskey and Lutz Kilian, "Oil and the
macroeconomy since the 1970s," JEP Fall 2004
|
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Jon Birger,
"The truth about Oil," Fortune October 3, 2005 |
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Chronology of world oil
prices |
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Anthony H.
Cordesman, Geopolitics and Energy, Key Trends:
2000-2020, Center for
Strategic and International Studies July 2002.
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Current
Energy, Supply of and Demand for Electricity in
California charts for
CA and other places |
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Tom Daschle
and Vinod Kholsla, "Miles per cob," NYT
5/8/2006 |
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Thomas
Friedman, "As enrgy prices rise, its all downhill for democracy," NYT
5/5/2006 |
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Thomas
friedman, "The new sputnik challenges: they all run on oil," NYT 1/20/
2006 |
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Thomas
Friedman, "The PostpPost-Cold War," NYT
5/10/2006 |
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Richard
Lugar, "Energy Security: Cause for Cooperation or
Competition?,"
Transcript from talk at Brookings March 13,
2006 |
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Amy Myers
Jaffe and Robert A. Manning, "The Shocks of a World of Cheap
Oil," Foreign
Affairs January/February 2000 |
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Kevin L.
Kliesen, Rising Oil Prices and Economic Turmoil:
Must They Always Go Hand in Hand? Regional Economist January 2001 |
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Abraham
Lustgarten, "the dark magic," Fortune October 3, 2005 |
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Mabro, "OPEC
behavior 1960-1998: A review of the literature," Journal of Energy
Literature, 1998 |
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"Money to
brn: why oil exporters' enormous surpluses may last longer this time," The
Economist 4/2/2006 |
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"Oil in
Troubled Waters," The Economist 4/30/2005 |
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William
Powers, "All smoke, no fire in Bolivia," NYT 5/6/2006 |
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Oliver Ryan,
"The Rainwater prophecy," Fortune
12/26/2005 |
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Schwartz,
"Oil's New Mr. Big," Fortune October 3,
2005 |
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Ropbert
Semple, "The end of oil," NYT March 1,
2006 |
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William
Sharpe, "Winners and Losers in Oil-Price Fall" WSJ 3/24/1986 |
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"The oil
industry: Steady as she goes," The Economist 4/22/2006 |
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OECD,
Energy: The Next Fifty Years 1999 International Futures
Programme
- "the long-term future for energy:
an assessment of key trends and challenges"
- "world energy prospects to 2020:
issues and uncertainties"
- "global energy perspectives: 2050
and beyond"
- "energy demand patterns towards
2050"
- "systems options for sustainable
development"
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Department of Energy
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Bubbles
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Garber, P.M.,
"Famous first bubbles," Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol.4 (2)
Spring 1990 |
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David
Grainger, "Bubble in the Heartland," Fortune 11/25/2002 |
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Daniel Gross,
"Ready for everything under the solar panel?," NYT 1/1/2006 |
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Paul Krugman,
"Greenspan and the bubble," New York Times August 29, 2005 |
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David
Leonhardt, "Be warned: Mr. bubble's word again," New York Times August
21, 2005 |
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Robert
Shiller, "Precipitating factors: The Capitalist Explosion, the Internet,
and Other Events," Irrational Exuberance
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Robert Shiller, " Precipitating Factors: The Capitalist Explosion,
the Internet, and Other Events," in Robert Shiller, Irrational
Exuberance |
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Andrew
Sorkin, "The Great Buyout Bubble, " returns November 13, 2005 |
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American
Financial Panics
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Housing
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"Close to
Bursting," The Economist, May 31,
2003 |
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"Going
through the roof," The Economist
3/30/2002 |
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David
Grainger, "Riding the Boom," Fortune 5/30/2005 |
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Michael
Hudson, "The new road to serfdom," Harpers May 2006 |
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Jane Katz, Running in
Cycles Boston Fed
Regional Review 2/3 2004 |
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Ellen Kratz,
"Fear of Falling," Fortune
12/26/2005 |
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Paul Krugman,
"No bubble trouble?" NYT 1/2/2006 |
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Robert
Shiller, "Safe as Houses," WSJ 12/17/2002 |
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"The global
housing market: flimsy foundations," The Economist
12/11/2004 |
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Shawn Tully,
"Is the
housing boom over?” Fortune, September 20, 2004 |
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Miriam
Wasserman, Appreciating the
House, Regional
Review
1998:2 |
Stocks
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Wayne Angel,
"The Bubble Won't Burst," WSJ February 3, 1999 |
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Herbert Baer,
"Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble," Chicago Fed Letter, Nov.
1988 |
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"Bubble,
Bubble," The Economist March 25,
2000 |
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Golob &
Bishop, "What long-run returns can investors
expect from the stock market?," KC Economic Review 1997:3 |
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Peter
Fortune, "A primer on US stock price
indices," NEER
N/D 1998 |
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Glassman
& Hassett, "Dow 36,000," The Atlantic Monthly 9/1999 |
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George
Melloan, "Is Crash Talk Trash Talk? Well, Not Entirely," WSJ
4/14/1997 |
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Tracy,
Schneider, Chan, "Are stocks overtaking real estate in
household portfolios?,"
FRBNY Current Issues, April 1999 |
Back
Investing
Financial calculators
Back
Elasticity
Households/demographics
Demographics
World
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"A tale of
two bellies: The remarkable demographic difference between America and
Europe," The Economist 8/24/2002 |
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John
Bongaarts, "Population aging and the rising cost of public
pensions."
Population Council Working Paper |
 |
Paul Demeny,
"Population policy: A concise summary." Population Council Working
Paper |
 |
"Global
Demographic Change: Economic Impacts and Policy Challenges" KC Fed
2004, |
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Peter S.
Heller, Who Will Pay? Coping with Aging
Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal
Challenges
International Monetary Fund November
2003 |
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John
Helliwell, "Demographic changes and international
factor mobility," 2004
Symposium, KC Fed |
 |
IMF -- The Global Impact of Demographic
Change |
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Richard
Johnson, Economic Policy Implications of World
Demographic Change KCER 1:2004 |
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Robert
Kaplan, "Angry young men don't want Mideast peace." WSJ 12/7/2000 |
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Paul Kennedy,
"Must it be the West vs the
Rest," The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Dec 1994 |
 |
Geoffrey
McNicoll, "Population and development: An introductory
view." Population
Council Working Paper |
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Don Peck,
The world in numbers: Population 2050," The
Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Oct
2002 |
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Kenneth
Rogoff, "A Development Nightmare," Foreign Policy J/F 2004 |
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Mehmet S.Tosun, "Global Aging and
Fiscal Policy with International Labor Mobility: A Political Economy
Perspective" July 1, 2005
2004, "Global Demographic Change: Economic Impacts and Policy
Challenges" KC Fed
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Age
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"Demographic
change: Old Europe," The Economist 10/2/2004 |
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Nicholas
Eberstadt, "Old Age Tsunami, Wall Street Journal November 15, 2005 |
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MILT
FREUDENHEIM and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, "The Next Retirement Bomb," NYT
12/11/2005 |
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Peter S.
Heller, Who Will Pay? Coping with Aging
Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal
Challenges
International Monetary Fund November
2003 |
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"Japan: The
incredible shrinking country," The Economist
11/13/2004 |
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James M.
Poterba, Impact of Population Aging on Financial
Markets in Developed Countries, KCER
4:2004 |
Aids
Back
US
 |
The
Strategist |
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David
Brooks, One nation, slightly
divisible, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Dec 2001
|
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David Brooks,
"The new red-diaper babies," NYT
12/7/2004 |
 |
Peter
Drucker, "The future that has already happened," Harvard Business Review
(September-October 1997) |
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William Frey
and Ross DeVoe, "America's Demography in the New
Century," Miliken
Institute Policy Brief March 8, 2000 |
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Robert D
Kaplan, Travels into America's
future, The Atlantic
Monthly; Boston; Aug
1998 |
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George
Keller, The New Demographics of Higher Education, prepared for College
Board Conference, 2000 |
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Michael Lind,
The new continental
divide, The Atlantic
Monthly; Boston;
Jan/Feb 2003; |
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Little &
Triest, The Impact of Demographic Change on U.S. Labor Markets
Full Text NE Economic Review 2002:2
|
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Bill
McKibben, A special moment in
history, The
Atlantic Monthly;
May 1998 |
 |
Joel Rogers;
Ruy Teixeira, America's forgotten
majority, The
Atlantic Monthly;
Jun 2000 |
 |
Steven Stark,
Gap politics, The Atlantic
Monthly; Jul 1996
|
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Eric Wilson,
"Gap's new chain store aims at the fashionably mature woman," New York
Times August 24,
2005 |
Age
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"All our tomorrows, A
Survey of the Economics of ageing," The Economist 1/27/1996
|
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Household behavior
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David Brooks,
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Michael Noer,
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Margaret
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John Tierney,
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Extensions of household
choice
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Ames Room |
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Hall of illusions |
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"All too
human," The Economist 10/12/2002 |
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Edmund
Andrews, "Republicans are deeply split over how to apportion new tax
cuts," NYT 11/26/2005 (framing) |
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Behavioral Finance |
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"Biology
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Alan
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Stephen
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Justin Fox,
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Richard
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Adam Leipzig,
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Advertising
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Ten
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|
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Financial data
Firms
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Executive
paywatch |
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Robert Bliss,
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Nicola
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"20
That Made
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Jeffrey
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William J.
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Alison
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"Social Capitalists," Fast Company January 2004 |
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Straus &
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Fred
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and Google) |
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"The lunatic you work
for," The
Economist
5/8/2004 |
Corporate scandals and the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act
Some Jokes
Back
Production and cost and inputs
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John Markoff,
"In a grueling Desert race a winner, but not a driver," New York
Times October 9 2005 |
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"They Stopped
the Sea," National Geographic, July
1987 |
Monopoly and pricing
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"A survey of
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Jeff Bailey,
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Michael
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Barrionuevo,
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Alex
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Alex
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Matthew
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Jeff Camino, Pricing Strategies |
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Pei-yu Chen, Pricing
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Geoffrey
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GENE
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* J. Bradford
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J. Bradford
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Al Ehrbar,
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John Ellis,
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Gene Ellison
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Charles
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Robert Frank,
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Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook
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Charles
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"Frictions in
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Gladwell,
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Faith
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Scott
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S. J.
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Richard
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Keith
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Carl Shapiro & Hal Varian, "Versioning: The smart Way to Sell
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Carl Shapiro
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Linda
Tischler, "The price is
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Linda
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**Hal Varian,
High-Technology Industries and Market
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Hal Varian,
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Hal Varian,
High-Technology Industries and Market
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* Hal Varian,
Market Structure in the Network
Age |
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Hal Varian
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Alan E.
Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market
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Start-up.com (film) |
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Imperfect competition
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Geoffrey
Colvin, "Is game theory real? ask Bill Belichick's Patriots."
Fortune October 31, 2005 |
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"Glass with
attitude," The Economist 12/20/1997 |
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Stefan
Kanfer, "A cartel more durable than diamonds," NYT |
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"Washed out
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Gregory
White, "Russian Maneuvers are making palladium ever more precious,"
WSJ |
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Antitrust
articles
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Baker,
"can antitrust keep up? competition
policy in high tech markets." Brookings Review Winter
2001 |
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Becker &
Murphy, "Rethinking Antitrust," WSJ
2/26/2001 |
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Gilbert &
Zaretsky, "Banking Antitrust: Are the Assumptions
Still Valid?,"
FRBStL Economic Review N/D 2003 |
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Richard Gilbert & Michael Katz, "An Economist's Guide to
U.S. v. Microsoft," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring
2001 |
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Richard Gilbert & Michael Katz, An Economist's Guide to
Microsoft |
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Benjamin Klein, "The Microsoft Case: What Can a Dominant Firm Do
to Defend Its Market Position," Journal of Economic Perspectives,
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Neely,
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of Economics in Antitrust Law," Regional Review July 1998 |
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Simmons &
Stavins, "Has antitrust policy in banking become
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"The price is not quite
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"The trustbusters new
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Michael Whinston, "Exclusivity and Tying in U.S. v. Microsoft:
What We Know, and Don't Know," Journal of Economic Perspectives,
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Antitrust sites
Microsoft
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An Economist's Guide to
Microsoft |
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Richard
Gilbert & Michael Katz, "An Economist's Guide to U.S v.
Microsoft." Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring
2001 |
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Benjamin
Klein, "The Microsoft Case: What Can a Dominant Firm Do to Defend Its
Market Position" Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring
2001 |
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Microsoft/Antitrust (About.com) |
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Microsoft
Antitrust
(New York Times) |
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Microsoft_Antitrust_Trial (Yahoo) |
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US v. Microsoft: Main
Index (Dept. of
Justice) |
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Michael
Whinston, "Exclusivity and Tying in U.S v. Microsoft: What We Know
and Don't Know." Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring
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Deregulation/Regulation
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Deregulation/Electricity -
Deregulation Index
(Public Citizen) |
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Steven
Greenhouse, "Labor dept. is rebuked over packed with Wal-Mart," the New
York Times November 1, 2005 |
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Harris,
Robert G. and C. Jeffrey Kraft. "Meddling through: Regulating local
telephone competition in the United States." JEP. Fall 1997 |
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Paul
Joskow, "Restructuring, competition and regulatory reform in the US
electricity sector." JEP. Summer
1997 |
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Thomas
Klitgaard and Rekha Reddy, "December Volume 6, Number
14 |
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James
Peoples, "Deregulation and the labor market." JEP. Summer
1998 |
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The electricity system at the crossroads - Policy choices and
pitfalls |
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Leonard
Waverman and Esen Sirel. "European telecommunications markets on the verge
of full liberalization." JEP. Fall
1997 |
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Clifford
Winston, "US industry adjustment to economic deregulation JEP.
Summer 1998 |
California Electricity Crisis
 |
Adrian Moore and , , April 19, 2001 |
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"A state of
gloom," The Economist, 1/20/2001 |
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Blackouts in California Shouldn't
Cause Panic Here |
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California Electricity
Crisis, 1/26/2001
MANIFESTO ON THE CALIFORNIA ELECTRICITY CRISIS, Generated and endorsed by
UC Berkely |
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California's Electricity Crisis: What
Happened and Why?
|
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Causes and Lessons of the
California Electricity Crisis (Congressional Budget Office) |
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California Energy
Crisis (LA
Times) |
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California's Electricity Crisis:
What Happened and Why? |
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California's Electricity Crisis:
What's Going On, Who's to ... (Cato Institute) |
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Causes and Lessons of the
California Electricity Crisis (Congressional Budget Office) |
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Electricity Crisis, Blackouts,
California Electricity Problems (links to news stories) |
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