All Terrain Thinking

A Compendium of things I think are Important

"If you teach a man to think he is thinking, he will love you. If you teach a man to think, he will hate you. - Ed McArthur"
 
 

Economics: It's not just whats' in your wallet

Readings MICRO(Top)                                      link to   ( Macro Readings)

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Eco Micro
Introduction to Economics Firms
Data Analysis Production & Cost
Opportunity Cost Monopoly & Pricing
International trade Imperfect competition
S&D (energy, housing) Antitrust & Regulation
Externalities (pollution)
Investing Inequality
Elasticity Discrimination
Labor Market
Demographics   World    US  
Immigration I&E Industries
  I&E history, Intro, why US?
Individual choice lotteries
 

Books

  • Levitt & , Freakonomocs,
  • Juliet Schor, Born to Buy,
  • Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics, W W Norton 2002

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An Introduction to Economics

"Catching up," The Economist, 8/23/2003

Nobel war maps
"A nation apart: A survey of America," The Economist 11/8/2003
Armen Alchian, "Of Golf, Capitalism and Socialism," Wall Street Journal  
Apul Altman, "Help wanted: academic economists, pro-Bush," NYT 11/27/2005
W. Brian Arthur, "Why tech is still the future," Fortune 11/24/2003
Kevin Baker, "We're in the Army now: The GOP's plan to militarized our culture," Harpers October 2003
Robert Bates, "On The Politics of Property Rights by Haber, Razo, and Maurer," JEL June 2004
Fred Bergstrom, “The risks ahead for the world economy,” The Economist 9/11/2004
Gordon Bigelow, "Let there be markets: The evangelical roots of economics," Harpers May 2005
David Brooks, "Fly the partisan skies," NYT 4/6/2004
David Brooks, "The Bursting Point," NYT September 4, 2005
Gordon Brown, "Old Europe's Choices," Wall Street Journal 10/16/2003
Michael Cardarelli, "Why Cranston must charge for sports," Providence Journal
Clayton Christensen, Thomas Craig, and Stuart Hart, "The Great Disruption, Foreign Affairs  2001

Douglas Clement, "Thinking Like an Economist: A workshop on economic principles," Minn Fed 9/2003

Deepening democracy in a fragmented world, UN's 2002 Human Development Report,

"Dept. of Corrections" Harpers 6/2001
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," WW Norton
Robert Dreyfuss, "The Thirty-Year Itch," Mother Jones Diary, March/April 2003 Issue
"Peter Drucker sets us straight," Fortune 1/12/2004
Peter Drucker, "Beyond the Information Revolution," The Atlantic Monthly 10/1999
Peter Drucker, "The Age of Social Transformation," The Atlantic Monthly 11/1994
John Elson, "Has history come to an end" Time, 9/4/1989
"Europe's Scrap-heap" The Economist 8/18/2001
"Evident truths," Harpers July 2004

James Fallows, What is an economy for? The Atlantic Monthly; 1/1994

James Fallows, "Countdown to a Meltdown," The Atlantic Monthly August 2005

Benjamin Friedman, “Meltdown: A Case Study,The Atlantic Monthly August 2005
Francis Fukuyama, The Great Disruption, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; May 1999
Goldilocks Politics," The Economist 12/19/1998
John Taylor Gatto, "Against School," Harpers September 2003
"Go west, young Han," The Economist 12/23/2000
Ted Halstead, The American paradox, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Jan/Feb 2003
Rob Hebert, "A radical in the White House," NYT April 18, 2005
Peter S. Heller, Who Will Pay? Coping with Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges International Monetary Fund
November 2003
Jack High, "To Park or Not To Park: Let the Market Decide." The Margin November 1987
Arlie Russell Hochschild, A generation without public passion, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Feb 2001
Robert Hormats, "The Technologies of Freedom," Wall Street Journal  
"Human evolution: Homo economicus? The Economist, 4/9/2005
Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilization?Foreign Affairs Summer 1993
"Introducing Big Government," The Economist 12/31/1999
Michael Janofsky, "Professor's politics draw lawmakers into the fray," NYT 12/15/2005
Robert D Kaplan, Was democracy just a moment?, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Dec 1997
David Kein, The People’s Romance: Why People Love Government (as much as they do)," Santa Clara Working Paper May 2005
Alan Krueger and Jitka Malechova, "Education, poverty and terrorism: Is there a causal connection,?" JEP Fall 3003

Anne O. Krueger, "Reporting Economics Well," Minn Fed 9/2003

Paul Krugman, "Bums and Rushes" NYT 2/7/2001
Paul Krugman, “The big uneasy,” NYT September 23, 2005
David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Are Some So Rich and Others So Poor?, WW Norton 1998
Christopher Lasch, "The revolt of the elites," Harpers 11/1994
"liberalism regained: building the next progressive majority," Harpers August 2004
Nathan Littlefield, "The $45 Trillion Problem," The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
Angus Maddison, "Poor Until 1820," WSJ 1/11/1999
John Markoff, "A Rebel in Japan, an Inventor is Hailed as an Innovator in US,"  NYT 9/18/2002
Casey Mulligan, Ricard Gil, and Xavier Sala-i-Martin, "Do democracies have different public policies than nondemocracies?" JEP Winter 2004

Bill Moyers, "This is your story - The progressive story of America - Pass it on," Common dreams 6/12/2003

Rob Norton, "Dumbed-Down Economics," Fortune 1/7/2002

William Pfaff," What we've lost: George AW Bush and the price of torture," Harpers November 2005
Edmund Phelps, "The Global Crisis of Corporatism," Wall Street Journal 3/25/1999
Ken Pomerantz, The Great Disruption, Princeton University Press, 2000
Francine Prose, "Voting democracy off the island: reality TV and Republican ethos," Harpers March 2004
Jonathan Rauch, "Reversing White Flight," The Atlantic Monthly October 2002
Frank Rich, "Bring back Warren harding,"" NYT September 25, 2005
Frank Rich, "The mysterious death of Pat Tillman," New York Times November 6, 2005
Frank Rich, "Why they won," New York Times November 5, 2004
Shawn Ritenour, "How Subsidies Kill Symphonies," Wall Street Journal 4/8/1997
Jeffrey Sachs, " Welcome to the Asian century," Fortune  4/17/2004
Jeffrey Sachs, "The geography of economic development," NWC Review, Autumn 2000
Murray Sayle, The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Jun 1998
S Sato, "Clash of civilizations or self-renovation through mutual learning?," Asia Pacific Review 10/1997
Thom Shanker & David Stout, "Vietnam arvhive casts a shadow across decades," NYT Nov. 17, 2005
Robert Shiller, "American Casino," The Atlantic Monthly, March 2005
Andre Shleifer, "Does competition destroy ethical behavior,? AER May 2004
Frederick Simpich, "Today's World Turns on oil," National Geographic, June 1941
Mark Slouka, "Quitting the paint factory," Harpers November 2004
Rebecca Solnit, "The Uses of Disaster: Notes on bad weather and good government," Harpers October 2005
Ron Suskind, "Without a doubt," New York Times 10/17/2004
"The good (and bad) model guide" The Economist 4/10/1999
"The road to riches," The Economist 12/31/1999
The United Nations, Harpers 2005
"This is Monika. I'm Over the Wall" Wall Street Journal
Lester Thurow "Building WealthThe Atlantic Monthly, June 1999
John Tierney, “Losing that new deal religion,” September 24, 2005
"To each according to his abilities," The Economist 
Steven Weinburg, "Five and a half utopias," The Atlantic Monthly January 2000
Where the liberal things are." Harpers October 2004
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

By the Numbers: China and the United States  The Region, Minn Fed 12/2003

"Catching up," The Economist, 8/23/2003

Matthew Chapman, "God or gorilla: A darwin descendent at the Dover moneky trial," Harpers February 2006

Jack Curry, "BASEBALL; Damon's Agent Eager For Stats to Be Binding," NYT 11/22/2005

Robert Cushing and Bill Bishop, "The rural war," NYT July 20, 2005

Bob Davis, "Class Warfare: Dueling Professors Have Milwaukee Dazed Over Vouchers," Wall Street Journal October 11, 1996

John DiLulio, Jr. "What the Crime Statistics Don't Tell You," Wall Street Journal January 8, 1997

James Fallows, "Low-Class Conclusions," The Atlantic Monthly; April 1993

Austan Gollsbee, "How Rankings Rate," New York Times 4/12/2004

Lori Gotlieb, "How do I love thee,?" The Atlantic Monthly March 2006

Brian Greene, "That famous equation and you," New York Times, September 30, 2005

Joshua Green, "The numbers war," The Atlantic Monthly May 2006

"Gut reactions." The Economist, 12/9/1995

Keith Hammonds, "Billy Beane," Fast Company May 2003

"He said, she said, nobody knew," The Economist 11/20/2004

, "616* (* no asterisk required)," ESPN online Thursday, May 11, 2006 Updated: May 22, 9:10 AM ET

"If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly," The Economist 8/23/2003

Jane Katz, "Making the Numbers, How companies manage earnings," Regional Review 2000:1
Gina Kolata, "Data on deaths from obesity is inflated, US agency says," New York Times 11/24/2004
Paul Krugman, "Big Box Balderdash," NYT 12/12/2005
Paul Krugman, "Enemy of the planet," NYT April 17, 2006
Paul Krugman, "Weapons of math destruction," NYT 4/14/2006
Joshua Kurlantzick, ""Economy of scale: President Bush has been no friend to small business," Harpers, July 2004
Bruno Latour, "The last Critique," Harpers April 4004

Lee McIntyre, "The Murder Mystery," Regional Review 2000:1  Explaining the recent drop in homicide

Michael Pakko, The Economics of Smoking Bans, The Regional Economsit July 2005

John Allen Paulos, "Counting on Dysalculia," Discover March 1994

Frank Rich, "Truthiness 101: From Frey to Alito," NYT 1/22/2006

Donna Rosato, "Worried About Corporate Numbers? How About the Charts,"  New York Times, September 15, 2003

Richard Rosenfeld, "What Democracy? The case for abolishing the United States senate." Harpers May 2004

"School reform in danger," NYT editorial 5/8/2006

"Signifying nothing: Too many economists misuse statistics," The Economist 1/31/2004

Source of our Problems

"The Iraqi war: Counting the casualties," The Economist 11/6/2004

Linda Tischler, Tech for Toques," Fast Company May 2005

Edward Tufte, "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint," May 2003

Louis Uchitelle, "In Home Ownership Data, a Hidden Generation Gap,"  New York Times, September 26, 1999

Miriam Wasserman, "Mining Data," Regional Review 2000:3

"White House Effect," Harpers May 2004

JoAnn Wypijewski, "Judgement days: Lessons from Abu Ghraib courts- martial," Harpers Feb 2006

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Opportunity Cost

Jacck Beatty, "The Right Thing?," The Atlantic Monthly October 2004
Jack Beatty, The Butcher's Bill The Atlantic Monthly December 2004
Linda Blimes, "waging the into our war" US Today, ??
"EVA Analysis" University of Illinois, Chicago
James Fallows, "Bush's Lost Year," The Atlantic Monthly October 2004
Fortune series on business choices6/27/2005
Michael Useem and Jerry Useem, "Great Escapes"
"Jim Collins on Tough Calls"
"20 That Made History"
Ronald Glasser, "A War of disabilities: Iraq's hidden costs are coming home," cuff July 2005
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
"Shawn Tully, "America's Greatest Wealth Creators," Fortune 11/9/1998
Louis Uchitelle, "Disasters waiting to happen," NYT September 11, 2005
Louis Uchitelle, "When talk of guns and butter includes lives lost," NYT January 15, 2006
Cost-benefit analysis
John L. Moore, Cost-Benefit Analysis: Issues in Its Use in Regulation, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division,
June 28, 1995
Mind Tools, Cost/benefit analysis
Thayer Watkin, Introduction to Cost Benefit Analysis

http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/cost_of_war_in_iraq.pdf

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International trade

Cletus C. Coughlin, "The Controversy Over Free Trade: The Gap Between Economists and the General Public,"  FRBSF Review J/F 2002
Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilization?Foreign Affairs Summer 1993
Paul Kennedy, "Introduction" in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
George Melloan, "Denying China Trade Won't Soften It's Tough Guys," Wall Street Journal 3/14/2000
"A Taste of Adventure," The Economist, December 19, 1998
 World of Spice, American Spice Trade Association
Thee Age of Discovery 1340-1600 (map), from Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923
Historical maps of the world
The British Empire
Map - British Empire

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Supply & demand

Hollywood Stock Exchange
DOE Chronology of oil prices
Gary Becker, "It's Simple: Hike the Minimum Wage, and Put People out of Work" Business Week 3/6/1995
Berg, Forsythe, Nelson, Reitz, "Results from a Dozen Years of Election Futures Markets Research," 2000
John Campbell, "The Market for Hotels: If they come, will you build it?" Regional Review 1998:2
Carrie Conway, Diagnosis: Shortage. The Past, Present, and Future of the Registered Nurse Workforce, Regional Review 2001:3
"Drowning in coffee," The Economist 9/20/2001
Robert Frank, "Pricing the ballgame," NYT 12/4/2002
"Guessing games," The Economist 11/20/2004
Wade Graham, "A Hundred Rivers Run through It," Harpers June 1998
Erica Goshen & Colin Drozdowski, "The Recent Rise in the Value of Education: Market Forces at Work," Economic Commentary 8/15/1992
Jeremy Kahn, "The man who would have us bet on terrorism,"   Fortune 9/15/2003
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
Kim Sosin's interactive site at the University of South Carolina 
Nicholas Stein, "Crisis in a Coffee Cup," Fortune 12/9/2002
"Surely not rent controls?" The Economist 4/8/1995
US Department of Health and Human Services, The Pharmacist Shortage in
David Warsh, "In which the Internet threatens Holland," Boston Globe 
Miriam Wasserman, "Trouble in Coffee Lands," NE Fed Regional Review, 2002:2
World Agricultural Outlook Board, Office of the Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates
Madeline Zavodny, "Why minimum wage hikes may not reduce employment," FRBtl Economic Review 1998:2

Oil & energy

Richard Anderson and Jason Buol, "What is driving oil prices?,"  Regional Economist Jan 2005
Tim Appenzeller, "The end of cheap oil," National Geographic June 2004

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

Jon Birger, "The truth about Oil," Fortune October 3, 2005
Chronology of world oil prices

Anthony H. Cordesman, Geopolitics and Energy, Key Trends: 2000-2020, Center for Strategic and International Studies July 2002.

Current Energy, Supply of and Demand for Electricity in California charts for CA and other places
Tom Daschle and Vinod Kholsla, "Miles per cob," NYT 5/8/2006
Thomas Friedman, "As enrgy prices rise, its all downhill for democracy," NYT 5/5/2006
Thomas friedman, "The new sputnik challenges: they all run on oil," NYT 1/20/ 2006
Thomas Friedman, "The PostpPost-Cold War," NYT 5/10/2006
Richard Lugar, "Energy Security: Cause for Cooperation or Competition?," Transcript from talk at Brookings March 13, 2006
Amy Myers Jaffe and Robert A. Manning, "The Shocks of a World of Cheap Oil," Foreign Affairs January/February 2000 
Kevin L. Kliesen,  Rising Oil Prices and Economic Turmoil: Must They Always Go Hand in Hand? Regional Economist January 2001
Abraham Lustgarten, "the dark magic," Fortune October 3, 2005
Mabro, "OPEC behavior 1960-1998: A review of the literature," Journal of Energy Literature, 1998
"Money to brn: why oil exporters' enormous surpluses may last longer this time," The Economist 4/2/2006
"Oil in Troubled Waters," The Economist  4/30/2005
William Powers, "All smoke, no fire in Bolivia," NYT 5/6/2006
Oliver Ryan, "The Rainwater prophecy," Fortune 12/26/2005
Schwartz, "Oil's New Mr. Big," Fortune October 3, 2005
Ropbert Semple, "The end of oil," NYT March 1, 2006
William Sharpe, "Winners and Losers in Oil-Price Fall" WSJ 3/24/1986
"The oil industry: Steady as she goes," The Economist 4/22/2006
OECD, Energy: The Next Fifty Years  1999 International Futures Programme
  1. "the long-term future for energy: an assessment of key trends and challenges"
  2. "world energy prospects to 2020: issues and uncertainties"
  3. "global energy perspectives: 2050 and beyond"
  4. "energy demand patterns towards 2050"
  5. "systems options for sustainable development"
Department of Energy
Historical energy data

Bubbles

Asset price bubbles: Implications for monetary, regulatory, and international policies (Special Issue) Sept 2002 No. 181b
"Bursting bubbles" The Economist 8/6/1994
Garber, P.M., "Famous first bubbles," Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol.4 (2) Spring 1990
David Grainger, "Bubble in the Heartland," Fortune 11/25/2002
Daniel Gross, "Ready for everything under the solar panel?," NYT 1/1/2006
Paul Krugman, "Greenspan and the bubble," New York Times August 29, 2005
David Leonhardt, "Be warned: Mr. bubble's word again," New York Times August 21,  2005
Robert Shiller, "Precipitating factors: The Capitalist Explosion, the Internet, and Other Events," Irrational Exuberance
Robert Shiller, " Precipitating Factors: The Capitalist Explosion, the Internet, and Other Events," in Robert Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
Andrew Sorkin, "The Great Buyout Bubble, " returns November 13, 2005
Adam Zaretsky, "Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble," St. Louis Fed,  Regional Economist, April 1999
American Financial Panics
The South Sea Bubble of 1720
The Mississippi Bubble? - 1720
The Crime of 1873
"Keeping The Money Where It Will Do Most Good", the Panic of 1873 in the pages of Harper's Weekly
The Panic of 1907, "Paul Warburg's Crusade to Establish a Central Bank in the United States," By Michael A. Whitehouse
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
"Evolving Post-World War II U.S. Inflation Dynamics", by Timothy Cogley

Housing

"Close to Bursting," The Economist, May 31, 2003
"Going through the roof," The Economist 3/30/2002
David Grainger, "Riding the Boom," Fortune 5/30/2005
Michael Hudson, "The new road to serfdom," Harpers May 2006
Jane Katz, Running in Cycles Boston Fed Regional Review 2/3 2004 
Ellen Kratz, "Fear of Falling," Fortune 12/26/2005
Paul Krugman, "No bubble trouble?" NYT 1/2/2006
Robert Shiller, "Safe as Houses,"  WSJ 12/17/2002
"The global housing market: flimsy foundations," The Economist 12/11/2004
Shawn Tully, "Is the housing boom over?” Fortune, September 20, 2004
Miriam Wasserman, Appreciating the House, Regional Review 1998:2

Stocks

Wayne Angel, "The Bubble Won't Burst,"  WSJ February 3, 1999
Herbert Baer, "Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble," Chicago Fed Letter,  Nov. 1988
"Bubble, Bubble," The Economist March 25, 2000
Golob & Bishop, "What long-run returns can investors expect from the stock market?," KC Economic Review 1997:3
Peter Fortune, "A primer on US stock price indices," NEER N/D 1998
Glassman & Hassett, "Dow 36,000," The Atlantic Monthly 9/1999
George Melloan, "Is Crash Talk Trash Talk? Well, Not Entirely," WSJ 4/14/1997
Tracy, Schneider, Chan, "Are stocks overtaking real estate in household portfolios?," FRBNY Current Issues, April 1999

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Investing

ACGNJ Investing SIG Links Page
Moody's Investors Service

Financial calculators

Interest.com

HSH Associates

Kiplinger

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Elasticity

Anna Bernasek, "Real energy savers don't wear cardigans. Or do they? New York Times November 13, 2005
The price elasticity of demand
"ESTIMATION OF THE RESIDENTIAL PRICE ELASTICITY OF DEMAND FOR WATER BY MEANS OF A CONTINGENT VALUATION APPROACH."

Households/demographics

Demographics

World
"A tale of two bellies: The remarkable demographic difference between America and Europe," The Economist 8/24/2002
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,
Peter S. Heller, Who Will Pay? Coping with Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges International Monetary Fund
November 2003
John Helliwell, "Demographic changes and international factor mobility," 2004 Symposium, KC Fed
IMF -- The Global Impact of Demographic Change
Richard Johnson, Economic Policy Implications of World Demographic Change  KCER 1:2004
Robert Kaplan, "Angry young men don't want Mideast peace." WSJ 12/7/2000
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
Don Peck, The world in numbers: Population 2050," The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Oct 2002
Kenneth Rogoff, "A Development Nightmare," Foreign Policy J/F 2004

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
Global Demographic Change: Dimensions and Economic Significance
Cross-Border Macroeconomic Implications of Demographic Change
The Impact of Population Aging on Financial Markets
Virtuous in Old Age: How the IFIs Can Help Prepare for Demographic Change
Policy Challenges of Population Aging and Pension Systems in Latin America, VITTORIO CORBO
Governor, Central Bank of Chile
The Challenges of Population Aging: an International Perspective, DONALD J. JOHNSTON
Secretary-General, Organization for Economic Cooperation, and Development
Fiscal Challenges of Population Aging: The Asian Experience, RAKESH MOHAN
Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Seismic Shifts: The Economic Impact of Demographic Change, Boston Fed, Conference Series No. 46, 2001
Massimo Livi_Bacci, "Demographic Shocks: The View From History," 
Jane Sneddon Little and Robert K. Triest, Seismic Shifts: The Economic Impact of Demographic Change.
An Overview
 
Joseph Chamie, Recent Demographic Achievements and the Challenges Ahead 
Ronald D. Lee and Ryan D. Edwards, The Fiscal Impact of Population Change 
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Global Shifts: U.S. Immigration and the Cultural Impact of
Demographic Change. An Address
Michael S. Teitelbaum, Political Dimensions of Demographic Change: An Address
Jeffrey G. Williamson, Demographic Shocks and Global Factor Flows
Max Singer, "The Population Surprise," The Atlantic Monthly August 1999

 

 

Age

"Demographic change: Old Europe," The Economist 10/2/2004
Nicholas Eberstadt, "Old Age Tsunami, Wall Street Journal November 15, 2005
MILT FREUDENHEIM and  MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, "The Next Retirement Bomb," NYT 12/11/2005
Peter S. Heller, Who Will Pay? Coping with Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges International Monetary Fund
November 2003
"Japan: The incredible shrinking country,"  The Economist 11/13/2004
James M. Poterba, Impact of Population Aging on Financial Markets in Developed Countries, KCER  4:2004

Aids

Marc Gunther, "A crisis business can't ignore," Fortune 9/6/2004  (AIDS)

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US

The Strategist
David Brooks, One nation, slightly divisible, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Dec 2001
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)
William Frey and Ross DeVoe, "America's Demography in the New Century," Miliken Institute Policy Brief March 8, 2000
Robert D Kaplan, Travels into America's future, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Aug 1998
George Keller, The New Demographics of Higher Education, prepared for College Board Conference, 2000
Michael Lind, The new continental divide, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Jan/Feb 2003; 
Little & Triest, The Impact of Demographic Change on U.S. Labor Markets  Full Text  NE Economic Review 2002:2
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
Eric Wilson, "Gap's new chain store aims at the fashionably mature woman," New York Times August 24, 2005

Age

"All our tomorrows, A Survey of the Economics of ageing," The Economist 1/27/1996

"Bright young things, A Survey of the Young," The Economist 12/23/2000

Caring for a Large Geriatric Generation: The Coming Crisis in U.S. Health Care Levy Institute 2003/3

"corporate America's legacy costs," The Economist October 15, 2005

Arlene Dohm, "Gauging the labor force effects of retiring baby-boomer," Monthly Labor Review July 2000  (PPT)

Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven, "War between the Generations: Federal Spending on the Elderly Set to Explode," Cato Policy Analysis No. 488, September 16, 2003.

"Forever young: A survey of retirement," The Economist 3/27/2004

Erica L. Groshen and Thomas Klitgaard, "Live Long and Prosper: Challenges Ahead for an Aging Population," NY Fed Current Issues, February  2002 

Ted Halstead, "Politics for generation X," The Atlantic Monthly August 1999

Neil Howe & William Strauss "The New Generation Gap" The Atlantic Monthly December 1992

Kevin Kliessen, Assessing the Generational Gap in Future Living Standards through Generational Accounting," Regional Economist April 1997

Paul Krugman, "America's Senior Moment," The New York Review of Books," March 10, 2005

Roger Lowenstein, "The end of pensions," New York Times, October 30, 2005

Alicia Munnell, "Retirement Blues,"  BC Magazine

Judith Newman, "At your disposal: The funeral industry prepares for boom times," Harpers November 1997

OECD Aging Society

William Poole and David C. Wheelock, "The Real Population Problem," The Regional Economist April 2005

Joe Queenan, "Pharm Land," NYT November 20, 2005
Rauch, "Taking Stock," The Atlantic Monthly, J/F 2003to

William Rukeyser, "Let's do the hobble," The Atlantic Monthly July 1995

Danielle Sachs, "Scenes from teh culture clash," Fast Company J1n/Feb 2006

Michael Smitka, "Japanese Macroeconomic Dilemmas: The implications of demographics for growth and stability," 4/8/2004

"The color of conservatism," The Economist 1/25/2003

Linda Tischler, "Where the bucks are," Fast Company, March 2004

Lester Thurow, "The birth of a revolutionary class," NYT Magazine 9/29/96

Mary Williams Walsh, "Huge rise looms for health care in city's budget," NYT 12/26/2006

Mary Williams Walsh, "Some cities struggling to keep pension promises," NYT may 5, 2004

Leonard Wiener, "Half of all federal workers can retire in five years. Will government be able to replace them?  US News and World Report, 11/22/2004

Jodi Wilgoren, "At center of clash, rowdy children in coffee shops," New York Times November 9, 2005

Andrew Zolli, "The population hurglass," Fast Company March 2006

Ethnicity

Robert Kaplan, "Travels into America's Future, Southwest" The Atlantic Monthly July 1998

Robert Kaplan, "Travels into America's Future, Mexico" The Atlantic Monthly July 1998

Pico Lyer, "Where World's Collide," Harper's August 1995

Shelby Steele, "The age of white guilt," Harper's August 1995

Toussaint-Comeau, Changing Hispanic demographics: Opportunities and constraints in the financial market (Special Issue) Chicago Fed Letter, Aug 2003 

States / Region

Harlow Hyde, "Slow death in the great plains," Atlantic Monthly June 1997

Christopher Caldwell, The Southern Captivity of The GOP, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Jun 1998

Michael Lind, "The New Continental Divide" The Atlantic Monthly (January/February 2003)

Jordan Rappaport, U.S. Urban Decline and Growth, 1950 to 2000,  KC Fed, Economic Review, Third Quarter 2003 

Witold Rybczynski, Downsizing cities, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Oct 1995

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Immigration

Richard H. Adams Jr., 2003. "International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain: A Study of 24 Labor-Exporting Countries," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3069, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
Agiomirgianakis, George & Zervoyianni, Athina, 2001. "Globalization of labor markets and macroeconomic equilibrium," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 10(2), pages 109-133, 0. [Downloadable!]
A price worth paying?" The Economist 6/1/2002
A world of exiles," The Economist 1/4/2003
Pratibha Basrao, 2003. "The Impact of the Construction Sector in the Catching up Process of the Czech Republic and the Role of Labor Migration in that Context," NEURUS papers neurusp7, NEURUS - Network of European and US Regional and Urban Studies. [Downloadable!]
Roy Beck, "The ordeal of immigration in Wasau," The Atlantic Monthly April 1994
George Borjas, "The economics of immigration," Journal of Economic Literature, Dec 1994
George Borjas, The New Economics of Immigration, The Atlantic Monthly 1996
George J. Borjas, 2004. "Do Foreign Students Crowd Out Native Students from Graduate Programs?," NBER Working Papers 10349, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!]
Geoffrey Colvin, "Introducing the new third rail: immigration, Fortune 1/12/2004
Matthew Connelly & Paul Kennedy, "Must it be the rest against the west," The Atlantic Monthly Dec 1994
Donald R. Davis & David E. Weinstein, 2002. "Technological Superiority and the Losses from Migration," NBER Working Papers 8971, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!]
Dodson, Marvin E., 2001. "Welfare generosity and location choices among new United States immigrants," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 21(1), pages 47-67, 3. [Downloadable!]
James Fallows, Immigration: How It's Affecting Us, The Atlantic Monthly November 1983
Gabriel J. Felbermayr & Wilhelm Kohler, 2004. "Immigration and native welfare," Economics working papers 2004-01, Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. [Downloadable!]
Flam, Harry, 2003. "Turkey and the EU: Politics and Economics of Accession," Seminar Papers 718, Stockholm University, Institute for International Economic Studies. [Downloadable!]
Gordon H. Hanson & Matthew J. Slaughter, 1999. "The Rybczynski Theorem, Factor-Price Equalization, and Immigration: Evidence from U.S. States," NBER Working Papers 7074, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!]
Hansen, Jorgen Drud, 2003. "Immigration and income redistribution in welfare states," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 19(4), pages 735-746, 11. [Downloadable!]
Hillman, Arye L. & Weiss, Avi, 1999. "A theory of permissible illegal immigration," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 15(4), pages 585-604, 11. [Downloadable!]
William R. Keeton and Geoffrey B. Newton, Does Immigration Reduce Imbalances Among Labor Markets or Increase Them? Evidence from Recent Migration Flows, St Louis Economic Review, M/A 2006
 
Mayda, Anna Maria, 2004. "Who Is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants," IZA Discussion Papers 1115, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
Jack Miles, "A bold proposal on immigration," The Atlantic Monthly June 1994
Jack Miles, "The Coming immigration debate," The Atlantic Monthly Dec 1994 April 1995
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. & Thisse, Jacques-Francois, 2002. "Integration, agglomeration and the political economics of factor mobility," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 83(3), pages 429-456, 3. [Downloadable!]
Schiff, Maurice, 2004. "Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital," IZA Discussion Papers 1027, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
Kenneth F. Scheve & Matthew J. Slaughter, 1999. "Labor-Market Competition and Individual Preferences Over Immigration Policy," NBER Working Papers 6946, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!]
Daniel Trefler, 1997. "Immigrants and Natives in General Equilibrium Trade Models," NBER Working Papers 6209, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!]
"Waiting for the next wave," The Economist 3/16/1991
Francis A. Walker, "Restriction of Immigration" by  The Atlantic Monthly,June, 1896; Volume 77, No. 464; pages 822-829.

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Household behavior

Gary Becker, The Economic Way of Life, 1992 Nobel Prize Lecture
David Brooks, "Control Freaks," NYT 2/12/2006
"Chasing the dream," The Economist 8/9/2003
Clement, Wives at Work The Region 12/2003
Carrie Conaway, "Chances Aren't," Regional Review 2002:3
Lori Gottlieb, "How do I love thee?" The Atlantic Monthly March 2006
Davies, European Vacation: Why Americans Work More Than Europeans  The Region 12/2003
Alan Krueger and Jitka Malechova, "Education, poverty and terrorism: Is there a causal connection,?" JEP Fall 3003
William Langewiesche, "A Sea Story," The Atlantic Monthly May 2004
Stephan Levitt & Steven Dubner, "What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common" in Freakonomics
Stephan Levitt & Steven Dubner, "Where have all the criminals gone" in Freakonomics
Stephan Levitt, "Understanding why crime fell in the 1990s: Four factors that explain the decline and six that do not" JEP 200?
Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population 1798
Jon Mooallem, "Twelve easy pieces," NYT 2/12/2006
Michael Noer, "The Economics of Prostitution," Forbes, 2/14/2006
Francine Russi, "Can the Government Prevent Divorce?," The Atlantic Monthly October 1997
Lawrence Sherman, "Uncertain risks, Uneasy criminal," WSJ 
Paige M. Skiba and Howard J. Wall,  "To Bear or Not to Bear--That is the Economics Question  The Regional Economist, St. Louis Fed, July 2001
Louis Story, "Many women at elite colleges set career path to motherhood," NYT 9/2005
Margaret Talbot, "Catch and Release" The Atlantic J/F 2003
John Tierney, "The happiest wives," NYT 2/28/2006

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Extensions of household choice

Ames Room
Hall of illusions
"All too human," The Economist 10/12/2002
Edmund Andrews, "Republicans are deeply split over how to apportion new tax cuts," NYT 11/26/2005 (framing)
Behavioral Finance
"Biology meets the dismal science," The Economist 1/7/94
Shannon Brownlee, "We're Fatter but Not Smarter," Washington Post National Weekly Jan 6-12, 2003
Bikhchandani, Sushil. David Hirschleifer, and Ivo Welch. "Learning from the behavior of others: conformity, fads, and informational cascades." JEP. Summer 1998
Colin CAMERER, Prospect theory in the wild: Evidence from the field
John Cassidy, "All Together now," The New Yorker 3/27/2000
Adam Cohen, "Why democrats need to stop thinking about elephants," NYT 11/15/2004
Chiodo, Guidolin, Owtang, and Shimoji, "Subjective probabilities: Psychological theories and economic applications," Review St. Louis Fed J/F 2004
Alan Deutschman, "Change or die," Fast Company May 2005
Stephen Dubner & Steven Levitt, "Why Vote?," New York Times November 6, 2005
Stephen Dubner & Steven Levitt, "The economy of desire," New York Times 12/11/2005
Justin Fox, "Why Johnny Can't Save for Retirement," Fortune 3/21/2005
Joshua Green, "It Isn't the Message, Stupid," The Atlantic Monthly May 2005
"Happiness is a warm vote," The Economist 5/8/1999
"Inconspicuous consumption," The Economist 12/24/2005
Daniel KAHNEMAN,] and Amos TVERSKY, Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk 1979 (the original)
Daniel Kahneman, "Maps of Bounded Rationality: A Perspective on Intuitive Judgment and Choice," Nobel Prize Lecture 2002
Richard Kopcke, Jane Sneddon Little, and Geoffrey Tootell, "How humans behave: Implications for economics and economic policy," New England Economic Review 2004:1
Adam Leipzig, "How to sell a movie (or fail) in four hours," New York Times November 13, 2005
Carol McD. Wallace, "We're all preppies now," NYT 10/24/2005
"News from the lab." The Economist 4/17/1999
Brian O'Reilly, "Why Johnny can't Invest," Fortune 11/9/1998
Virginia Postrel, "Looking inside the brains of the stingy and the openhanded," NYT 2/27/2003
Joe Queenan, "Pharm Land," NYT November 20, 2005
Matthew Rabin, . "Psychology and economics." Journal of Economic Literature. March 1998
Barbara Reskin, "The Pernicious Effects of Unconscious Bias," Regional Review (Boston Fed) 2005 I
"Rethinking thinking," The Economist 12/18/1999
Juliet Schor, ""The Changing World of Children's Consumption," in Born to Buy
Robert J Shiller, Human Behavior and the Efficiency of the Financial System, 1998
Ron Suskind, "Without a doubt," NYT October 17, 2004
"Taxing the poor to pay the poor," The Economist 4/3/2004
"The human factor," The Economist 12/24a/1994
Louisa Thomas, "Why some people are willing to shell out for designer denim," November 10, 2005
"To have and to hold," The Economist 8/30/2003
Tversky, Amos and Daniel Kahneman. "Rational choice and the framing of decisions." Journal of Business. 59:4 1986
Louis Uchitelle, "At 150 Edgars lane, Changing the idea of home," NYT 2/2/2006
Mark D. Vaughan and David C. Wheelock, "Deposit Insurance Reform: Is It Deja Vu All Over Again?"  The Regional Economist, St. Louis Fed, Oct 2002
"Who gets eaten and who gets to eat," The Economist 7/12/2003
"Yes, ten million people can be wrong," The Economist 2/19/94

Advertising

Ten rules for effective advertising,"

 

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Financial data

On-line Annual Reports

Public Register's Annual Report Service Free annual reports
Business Connections - from the NY Times

Edgar

FreeEdgar offers S.E.C. filings, sometimes faster than the S.E.C.
Finance Related Sites - from Journal of Finance
Hoover's Online gives information about 9,500+ public and private companies

Firms

Executive paywatch
Robert Bliss, "Common sense about executive stock options" Chicago Fed Letter Apr 2003 
Nicola Cetorelli, Life-Cycle Dynamics in Industrial Sectors: The Role of Banking Market Structure,  St L Economic Review J/A 2003
Clayton Christensen, Thomas Craig, and Stuart Hart, "The Great Disruption," Foreign Affairs March/April 2001
Alan Deutschman, Is Your Boss a Psychopath?, Fast Company,
Peter Elkind, "The Fall of the House of Grasso," Fortune 10/18/2004
"Fat cats feeding," The Economist October 11, 2003
Fortune series on business choices6/27/2005
Michael Useem and Jerry Useem, "Great Escapes"
"Jim Collins on Tough Calls"
"20 That Made History"
Jeffrey Garten, "A new year; a new agenda," The Economist 1/4/2003
Thomas Hellmann and Manju Puri, "On the Fundamental Role of Venture Capital," FRBAtlanta Economic Review 2002:4
William J. McDonough, "Issues of Corporate Governance," Current Issues FRBNY Sept/Oct 2002
Alison Overholt, "The Good Earth," Fast Company December 2003
Perpetual motion: A Survey of the Car Industry," The Economist September 4, 2004
"Social Capitalists," Fast Company January 2004
Straus & Walster, "The disappearance of manufacturing?," Chicago Fed Letter June 2003
"The future of accounts," The Economist, April 20, 2003
Fred Vogelstein, "Search and Destroy," Fortune May 2, 2005  (Gates and Google)
"The lunatic you work for," The Economist 5/8/2004

Corporate scandals and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

NYU Corporate Scandals and Reform
BBC NEWS | scandals
MSNBC Guide to Scandals
PBS
Classic Financial and Corporate Scandals
Harvard Business School: Corporate Governance, Leadership & Values
Analysis of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Some Jokes  

About.com Martha Stewart Jokes
About.com Martha Stewart Living Behind Bars
About.com Decoding Enronspeak: What They Said vs. What They Meant
About.com Enron: Facing the Music
About.com Corporate Crooks
About.com Bush and Corporate Fraud
Corporate scandal

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Production and cost and inputs

John Markoff, "In a grueling Desert race  a winner, but not a driver," New York Times October 9 2005
"They Stopped the Sea," National Geographic, July 1987

Monopoly and pricing

bullet "A survey of patents," The Economist October 22, 2005
bullet Jeff Bailey, "Owners' web site gives realtors run for money," NYT 1/3/2006
bullet Michael Barbaro, "shop-till-you-drop specials, revealed here first," NYT 11/17/ 2005
bullet Barrionuevo, "Secret formulas set the prices for gasoline," WSJ 3/26/2000
bullet Alex Berenson, "A cancer drug's big price rise is cause for concern," NYT 3/12/2006
bullet Alex Berenson, "A cancer drug shows promise, at a price that many can't afford," NYT 2/15/2006
bullet Matthew Boyle, "Brand Killers," Fortune 8/11/2003
bullet Jeff Camino, Pricing Strategies
bullet Pei-yu Chen, Pricing Strategies for Digital Information Goods and Online Service on the Internet
bullet Geoffrey Colvin, "Pricing power ain't what it used to be," Fortune 9/15/2003
bullet Richard N. Cooper and Jane Little, "Competition & Opportunity: How International Forces Spurred Innovation in U.S. Banking," Regional Review 2001:3
bullet "Crowned at last," Survey of consumer power," The Economist April 2, 2005
bullet GENE D'AVOLIO, EFI GILDOR, and ANDREI SHLEIFER, "Technology, Information Production, and Market Efficiency," in Economic Policy for the Information Economy A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Jackson Hole, Wyoming August 30 - September 1, 2001
bullet * J. Bradford De Long, The Two New Economies
bullet J. Bradford De Long, Rules, New and Old, for Tomorrow's Economy 
bullet Al Ehrbar, "Breakaway Brands," Fortune, October 31, 2005
bullet John Ellis, "Can Business escape the price vice?" Fast Company 2/2003
bullet Gene Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison, "Lessons About Markets from the Internet," Journal of Economic Perspective Spring 2005
bullet Charles Fishman, "Which price is right?," Fast Company March 2003
bullet Robert Frank, "Pricing the Ballgame," NYT 12/4/2002
bullet Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
bullet Charles Fishman, "The Wal-Mart You Don't Know," Fast Company 12/2003
bullet "Frictions in cyberspace," The Economist 11/20/1999
bullet Gladwell, "How the SUV ran over automotive policy," New Yorker, January 12, 2004
bullet "Indiscriminate pricing," The Economist 8/1/1998
bullet Faith Keenan, "The Price Is Really Right: With a Web-savvy system, companies can figure out just what the market will bear." Business Week , March 31, 2003
bullet Scott Kirsner, "The logic of lock-in," Fast Company May 2006
bullet S. J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis, Network Externalities (Effects)
bullet Richard Posner, "Intellectual Property: The law and Economics Approach," Journal of Economic Perspective Spring 2005
bullet Eric Ransdell, Network Effects, Fast Company, Sept. 1999
bullet William Sahlman, "The New Economy is Stronger Than You Think" (Harvard Business Review, November / December 1999)
bullet Keith Schneider, "Small-town shop bulk up on the Web," NYT November 16, 2005
bullet Andrew Serwer, "How to escape a price war," Fortune 6/13/1994
bullet Carl Shapiro & Hal Varian, "Versioning: The smart Way to Sell Information," Harvard Business Review N/D 1998
bullet Carl Shapiro & Hal Varian, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to a Network Economy
bullet Carl Shapiro & Hal Varian, "Locked In, Not Out," The Industry Standard 10/23/1998
bullet ," WSJ 10/7/2003
bullet Linda Tischler, "The price is right," Fast Company, November 2003
bullet Linda Tischler, "Smells Like Brand Spirit," Fast Company, August 2005
bullet **Hal Varian, High-Technology Industries and Market Structure, July 2001
Hal Varian, "Copying and Copyright,"  Journal of Economic Perspective Spring 2005
Hal Varian, High-Technology Industries and Market Structure, September 17, 2001
* Hal Varian, Market Structure in the Network Age  
Hal Varian "Miles And Miles Of Flexible Track."   
Alan E. Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure  Chapters 3, 5 and 6
Start-up.com  (film)

 

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Imperfect competition

Geoffrey Colvin, "Is game theory real? ask Bill Belichick's Patriots." Fortune October 31, 2005
"Glass with attitude," The Economist 12/20/1997
Stefan Kanfer, "A cartel more durable than diamonds," NYT 
"Washed out in Africa," The Economist 6/3/2000
Gregory White, "Russian Maneuvers are making palladium ever more precious," WSJ
The cartel isn't over yet," The Economist 7/17/2004

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Antitrust articles

Baker, "can antitrust keep up? competition policy in high tech markets." Brookings Review Winter 2001
Becker & Murphy, "Rethinking Antitrust," WSJ 2/26/2001
Gilbert & Zaretsky, "Banking Antitrust: Are the Assumptions Still Valid?,"  FRBStL Economic Review N/D 2003
Richard Gilbert & Michael Katz, "An Economist's Guide to U.S. v. Microsoft," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001
Richard Gilbert & Michael Katz, An Economist's Guide to Microsoft
Benjamin Klein, "The Microsoft Case: What Can a Dominant Firm Do to Defend Its Market Position," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001
Neely, "Does Big Business Need Taming? The Role of Economics in Antitrust Law," Regional Review July 1998
Simmons & Stavins, "Has antitrust policy in banking become obsolete?," NE Economic Review M/A 1998

"The price is not quite right," The Economist, 7/7/2003

"The trustbusters new tools," The Economist, 5/2/1998

Michael Whinston, "Exclusivity and Tying in U.S. v. Microsoft: What We Know, and Don't Know," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001   

Antitrust sites

Chronological list of antitrust cases

ABA's Antitrust page

American Antitrust Institute

An Economist's Guide to Microsoft

FindLaw: Legal Subjects: Antitrust and Trade Regulation
Federal Trade Commission
Oligopoly Watch

Promoting Competition, Protecting Consumers: A Plain English Guide to Antitrust Laws produced by the FTC. 

SEC's EDGAR Database of Corporate Information
Senate Judiciary Committee (includes information from Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition

US Department of Justice: Antitrust Division

U.S. Justice Department, Antitrust Division

Microsoft

An Economist's Guide to Microsoft
Richard Gilbert & Michael Katz, "An Economist's Guide to U.S v. Microsoft." Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001
Benjamin Klein, "The Microsoft Case: What Can a Dominant Firm Do to Defend Its Market Position" Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001
Microsoft/Antitrust (About.com)
Microsoft Antitrust   (New York Times)
Microsoft_Antitrust_Trial (Yahoo)
US v. Microsoft: Main Index (Dept. of Justice)
Michael Whinston, "Exclusivity and Tying in U.S v. Microsoft: What We Know and Don't Know." Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001Nocera, Joseph. "First: Big question: what if they lose? Microsoft goes to court." Fortune. October 26, 1998

Deregulation/Regulation

Deregulation/Electricity - Deregulation Index (Public Citizen)
Steven Greenhouse, "Labor dept. is rebuked over packed with Wal-Mart," the New York Times November 1, 2005
Harris, Robert G. and C. Jeffrey Kraft. "Meddling through: Regulating local telephone competition in the United States." JEP. Fall 1997
Paul Joskow,  "Restructuring, competition and regulatory reform in the US electricity sector." JEP. Summer 1997
Thomas Klitgaard and Rekha Reddy, "Lowering Electricity Prices through Deregulation," NY Fed Current Issues,December   Volume 6, Number 14
James Peoples, "Deregulation and the labor market." JEP. Summer 1998
The electricity system at the crossroads - Policy choices and pitfalls
Leonard Waverman and Esen Sirel. "European telecommunications markets on the verge of full liberalization." JEP. Fall 1997
Clifford Winston, "US industry adjustment to economic deregulation JEP. Summer 1998

California Electricity Crisis

Adrian Moore and , , April 19, 2001
"A state of gloom," The Economist, 1/20/2001
Blackouts in California Shouldn't Cause Panic Here
California Electricity Crisis, 1/26/2001 MANIFESTO ON THE CALIFORNIA ELECTRICITY CRISIS, Generated and endorsed by UC Berkely
California's Electricity Crisis: What Happened and Why?
Causes and Lessons of the California Electricity Crisis (Congressional Budget Office)
California Energy Crisis (LA Times)
California's Electricity Crisis: What Happened and Why?
California's Electricity Crisis: What's Going On, Who's to ... (Cato Institute)
Causes and Lessons of the California Electricity Crisis (Congressional Budget Office)
Electricity Crisis, Blackouts, California Electricity Problems   (links to news stories)
Deregulation/Electricity - Deregulation Index (Public Citizen)
"How to keep the fans turning," The Economist, 7/21/2001
Status of the California Electricity Situation
The California Electricity Experience, 2000-01: Education or Diversion?,  Timothy Brennan, Resources for the Future
The Firm Hand - The Truth about the California Electricity ...
"The dawn of micropower," The Economist, 8/5/2000

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Extension of Theory of Markets: Externalities and Public Goods

Locating climate data

Bush's environmental record

Natural Resources Defense Council
Environment 2004

Air Pollution
"A great wall of waste, China's environment," The Economist 8/21/2004
"Atmospheric pressure: Why some environmental agreements work and others don't?," The Economist 4/19/2003
"Blowing smoke," The Economist 2/16/2002
Richard Garbaccio,  Assessing the Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act, EPA
Stuart Brown, "California rocks the auto industry," Fortune 11/1/2004
"Kyoto's last stand," The Economist 7/21/2001
"The right to drive or the right to breath," The Economist 3/9/2002
"The air they breath," The Economist, 9/30/2000

Commons/fishing/ocean
Garret Hardin "The Tragedy of the Commons,"  Science 1968
"Out of the blue: trade in endangered species," The Economist 11/2/2002
Singer "Free-for-all Fishing Depletes Stock," WSJ 
"The promise of a blue revolution," The Economist 8/9/2003
"The deep green sea: A survey," The Economist 5/23/1998
"The tragedy of the oceans," The Economist 3/19/94
Wasswerman, "The last hunting economy," Regional Review, 2001:1

Congestion

"Electronic road-pricing," The Economist 6/11/1994
"From highway to my way," The Economist 11/18/95
"Jam today, road pricing tomorrow," The Economist 12/6/1997
Jeffrey P. Cohen and Cletus C. Coughlin, Congestion at Airports: The Economics of Airport Expansions 
"Healthy regime," The Economist 6/11/94
Pozdnea, "Unlocking gridlock," FRBSF 12/9/1988
"Traffic decongestant," The Economist 3/15/2003
"Survey of commuting," The Economist 9/5/1998

Solid waste
"All that remains: A survey of waste and the environment," The Economist 5/29/93
Jane Katz, "What a Waste," Regional Review 2002:1
"All that remains: A survey of waste and the environment," The Economist 5/29/93
Allen Hershkowitz, "How garin the inbage could meet its maker," The Atlantic Monthly 6/1993
William Langewiesche , The shipbreakers, The Atlantic Monthly, Boston; Aug 2000
Jeremy Main, "The big cleanup gets it wrong," Fortune May 20, 1991

Pollution policies / problems
John W. Anderson and Richard D. Morgenstern, The Future of Sustainable Development: The Johannesburg Conference and What Happens Next, RFF Issue Briefs August 2003
An injection of innovation," The Economist 6/5/2004
"An unquenchable thirst." The Economist 6/14/2004
"Are you being served?" The Economist 4.23/2005
"Are we being served?" The Economist April 23, 2005  environmental economics,
Kenneth Arrow..., Are we consuming too much?," JEP Summer 2004
Michael Barbaro & Felicity Barringer, “Wal-Mart to seek savings in energy” New York Times October 25, 2005
Felicity Barringer, "Aware of political ecosystem, property rights advocate embraces conservation plan," NYT 12/27/2005
Felicity Bannister, "United States ranks 28th on environment, a new study says," NYT 1/23/2006
Richard Bayon, "The fuel subsidy we need," in The Atlantic Monthly, J/F 2003
"Battling against big food," The Economist 12/21/2002
Maria Benson, Using Economics to Cool Down the Environment, Winning entry in the Minneapolis Fed's annual student essay contest, 2003
Anna Bernasek, "Real energy savers don't wear cardigans. Do they?," New York Times November 13, 2005
"Big oil and its subsidies," The Economist, 3/10/2001
"Blowing smoke," The Economist 2/16/2002
Scott Borgerson, "breaking the ice up north," The New York Times, October 19, 2005.
William H Calvin, The great climate flip-flop, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Jan 1998
(Christa Case, "Why Boston's plants bloom earlier now than 100 years ago," Christian Science Monitor 8/2/2004)
Claudia Deutsch, "Saving the environmen t, one quarterly earnings report at a time," NYT 11/22/05
"Climate Shock: Cloudy with a chance of chaos," Fortune January 23, 2006
Cobb, Halsteqd, & Rowe, "If GDP is UP, Why is America Down?," The Atlantic Monthly October 1995
Robert Cullen, "The True Cost of Coal," The Atlantic Monthly December 1993
Dasgupta, "Confronting the environmental Kuznets cycle," Journal of Economic Perspectives Winter 2002
Jared Diamond, "The Last Americans," Harpers, June 2003
Jared Diamond, "The ends of the worlds as we know them," NYT 1/1/2005
Ann Reilly Dowd, "Environmentalists are on the run," Fortune 9/19/1994
Daniel Esty, "Bridging the trade-environment divide," Journal of Economic Perspectives Summer 2001
A Myrick Freeman III, "Environmental policy since eearth day I: what has it gained?" Journal of Economic Perspectives Winter 2002
Dunkiel, Hammond & Montavalli, "Sharing the wealth: If we shift the tax burden from work to waste everyone" E Magazine, M/A 1999
"Economic man, cleaner planet," The Economist, 9/29/2001
Paul R. Ehrlich, Gretchen C. Daily, Scott C. Daily, Norman Myers, and James Salzman, "No Middle Way on the Environment
John Elkington & Mark Lee, "The ebb and flow of corporate eco-consceiensnous," Nov 15, 2005
Laurie Flynn, "poor nations are littered with old PCs, report says," New York Times October 24,  2005
Thomas Frank, "Lie down for America: How the Republican Party sows ruin on the Great Plains," Harpers April 2004
Thomas Friedman, "Shoulda, Woulda, Can," NYT 5/27/2004
Thomas Friedman, "Addicted to oil," 2/1/2006
"gas taxes: lesser evil, greater good," The New York Times, October 24, 2005
Ronald Glasser, "We are not immune: Influenza, SARS, and the collapse of public health," Harpers July 2004
"Green dreams: Can Japan boost its economy by protecting nature?," The Economist  1/12/2002
Danny Hakim, "Study says making cars lighter would cost lives," NYT Octoer 14, 2003
Garret Hardin "The Tragedy of the Commons,"  Science 1968
Allen Hershkowitz, "How garbage could meet its maker," The Atlantic Monthly 6/1993
Jack Hitt, "A Gospel According to the earth," Harpers July 2003
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, "On The Threshold:Environmental Changes as Causes of Acute Conflict, Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto
International Security, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Fall 1991)
Richard Horowitz, "America's Problem with Global Warming," American Studies  Spring 2004

INTERVIEW WITH A FUNGUS By Diane Brooks Pleninger DP Good evening

Robert Kaplan, "The Coming Anarchy, The Atlantic Monthly February 1994

Nicholas Kristof, "the storm next time," New York Times September 11, 2005

Nicholas Kristof, "'fire bell' in the night," New York Times September 27, 2005

Eugene Linden, "Cloudy with a chnace of chaos," Fortune 1/23/2006

Richard Lindzen, "Climate of fear,"

Bjorn Lomborg, "The truth about the environment," The Economist 8/4/2001

"The litany and the heretic," The Economist 2/2/2002

Amory Lovins, "How America can free itself of oil-profitably," Fortune 10/4/2004

Amory Lovins, "Natural Capitalism," Apertura June 2001    Natural Capitalism  (Chapter 1)
Amory Lovins, "How America can free itself of oil-profitably," Fortune October 4, 2004
Lovins, Amory B;Lovins, L Hunter, Reinventing the wheel, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Jan 1995
William McDonough;Michael Braungart, The next industrial revolution, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Oct 1998
Douglas McGray, "Earth Inc.'s Annual Report," Fast Company April 2003
Warwick McKibben & Peter Wilcoxen, "The Role of Economics in Climate Change Policy," Journal or Economic Perspective Spring 2002
Bill McKibben, "The Great Leap: Scenes from China's industrial revolution," Harpers December 2005
"Never the twain shall meet," The Economist 2/2/2002
 New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank
World Development Report 2003, World Bank
"Out of the blue: trade in endangered species," The Economist 11/2/2002
"Peering at the future," The Economist June 19, 2004
Jane Perlez & Lowell Bergman, "tangled strands in the fight over Goldmine," New York Times October 25, 2005
Jane Perlez & Kirk Johnson, "behind gold glitter: torn lands and pointed questions," New York Times October 24, 2005
Jane Perlez and Raymond Bonner, "Below a mountain of wealth, a river of waste," NYT 12/27,2005
Carl Pope, "Race to the top: The biases of the WTO," Harvard International Review Winter 2002
Mathew Power, "The poison stream: Sacrificing India's poor on the altar of modernity," Harpers August 2004
Jonathan Rauch," The fat tax: A modest proposal," The Atlantic Monthly December 2002
William Rees, "The ecology of sustainable development," 
Andrew Revkin, "Pact signed for prototype of coal," NYT 12/7/2005
Andrew Revkin, "US Resists new targets for curbing emissions," NYT 12/8/2005
Andrew Revkin, "US, under fire, eases stance in climate talks," NYT 12/10/2005
Jennifer L. Rich, Pollution Solution  Foreign Policy S/O 2004
Ridley & Low, "Can Selfishness save the environment?," The Atlantic Monthly September 1993
Chuck Salter, "Ford's Escape Route," Fast Company October 2004
"Saving the rainforest," The Economist 7/24/2004
Sarah Schafer & Anne Underwood, "building in green: can China 400 people to its cities without wreaking environmental havoc? Newsweek September 26th, 2005
Peter Schwartz & Doug Randall, "An abrupt climate-change scenario and its implication for united states national security,"   October 2003
Ben Stipp, "Can this man solve the energy crisis?," Fortune 5/12/2002
"Tax or trade: A novel approach...," The Economist 2/16/2002
"The greening of GE," The Econ omist 12/10/2005
"The greening of giving," The Economist 12/25/1993
"The litany and the heretic," The Economist 2/2/2002
"The poisoned giant wakes up," The Economist 11/4/89
"The price of imagining," The Economist 12/3/94
"The truth about the environment," The Economist, 8/4/2001
John Tierney, "instead of the soft path, try hard cash," New York Times October 1, 2005
Valuing Ecosystem Services: Toward Better Environmental Decision-Making (2004), NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
Nicholas Varchaver, "How to kick the oil habit," Fortune 8/23/2004
Wasswerman, "The last hunting economy," Regional Review, 2001:1
"Why some environmental agreements work and others don't," The Economist 4/19/2003

Permits

"California's smog market: right to pollute," The Economist 10/30/1993
Anthony Depalma, "nine states in plan to cut emissions by power plants," New York Times August 24, 2005
"Emission: Seeing green," The Economist 10/30/1999
Hanson & Testa, "A market based approach to cleaner air," Chicago fed letter May 1992
Joskow, Paul L., Richard Schmalensee, and Elizabeth M. Bailey. "The market for sulfur dioxide emissions." AER September 1998
Cait Murphy, "Hog wild for pollution trading," Fortune9/2/2002
Peter Passell, "Selling pollution rights isn't popular: neither are the alternative," NYT 4/8/1993
Richard Schmalensee et. al, "An interim evaluation of sulfer dioxide emissions trading," Journal of Economic Perspectives,  Summer 1998
Robert Stavins, "What we can learn from the grand policy experiment? Lessons from SO2 allowance trading,"  Journal of Economic Perspectives
Tom Tietenberg, a brief history of tradable permits
Tom Tietenberg, Tradable Permits and the Control of Pollution
"To travel hopefully: A survey of commuting," The Economist 9/5/1998
EPA web site

Misc

American Environmental History Bibliography, by Dan Florez (1991)
Bibliography of the Age of Encounters, by Dan Phippon
Conservation & Ecology [an on-line peer-reviewed journal]
Cultural Landscapes Bibliography, by Neil Maher (1997)
Ecology Hall of Fame [short biographies]
Ecology and Environmental Links, from Ecotopia
Environmental Movement Timeline
EnviroMapper, from the United States Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental History Links, from Carnegie-Mellon
Directory of Environmental Programs of Study
H-Environment Home Page
Land Use History of North America
Library of Environmental Writing, from the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
National Council for Science and the Environment
Native Americans and the Land
Nature and Wilderness as Recreational Resources, c.1850-1920 , Bibliography from the Library of Congress
Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History
Place and Identity Bibliography, by Richard A. Viti
Repositories of Primary Sources-The Western united States and Canada, from the University of Idaho
Repositories of Primary Sources-The Western united States and Canada. Additional Links, from the University of Idaho
Scenic and Wilderness Travel Literature, c.1850-1920, Bibliography from the Library of Congress
Sportsmen and Conservationism, c.1850-1920 , Bibliography from the Library of Congress
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1820, from the Library of Congress.
The Nature Essay, c.1850-1920 , Bibliography from the Library of Congress
The Use of the Land. Perspectives on Stewardship
The Turner Thesis: An Annotated Bibliography of the American Frontier Heritage, by Laurie Kovacovic
The Writings of John Muir
Wilderness and American Identity

Public Goods

Garret Hardin "The Tragedy of the Commons,"  Science 1968
KNOWLEDGE AS A GLOBAL PUBLIC GOOD, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The World Bank
New Ideas in Pollution Regulation (World Bank)
Global Public Goods (UN)
Global Public Goods (Earth Summit 2002)
Mike Moffaty, "A public good through the eyes of college freshman,"

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Inequality

Inequality: World
Surjit Bhalla,“Imagine There Is No Country: Poverty, Inequality and Growth in the Era of Globalisation” Institute for International Economics;

Birdsall, Nancy and Juan Luis Londono. "Asset inequality matters: An assessment of the World Bank's approach to poverty reduction."  AER May 1997

Francois Bourguignon and Christian Morrison, “Inequality Among World Citizens: 1820-1992”  American Economic Review 92 (4).
Comparative Numbers
Global inequality
Mark Hertsgaard, Our Real China problem, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Nov 1997
Charles Jones, "On the evolution of the world income distribution." JEP. Summer 1997
Alan B. Krueger ; Jitka Maleková,  Education, Poverty and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection? The Journal of Economic Perspectives  Volume: 17 Number: 4 Page: 119 -- 144
Paul Krugman, "Feeling no pain," NYT March 6, 2006
Branko Milanovic, WORLDS APART: INTER-NATIONAL AND WORLD INEQUALITY 1950-2000, Brookings
"More or less equal?," The Economist 3/13/2004
Norimitsu Onishi, "Revival in Japan brings widening of economic gap," NYT April 16, 2006
PBS digital divide web site
"Rich man, poor man," The Economist, 9/27/2003
Haider Rizvi, "Globalization driving inequality," 12/8/2005
Xavier Sala-i-Martin, “The World Distribution of Income” NBER Working Paper 8933
"The mountain man and the surgeon," The Economist 12/24/2005
UN "The world social system: the inequality predicament," 2005
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census The Census Bureau provides current and historical data on income and poverty.
World Bank, "Inequality Data" At this web site, the World Bank maintains a set of links to sources of data and statistics on income inequality across countries. 

World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty

World Bank Human Development Report 2001 Attacking Human Poverty,"

World Bank, "Deepening democracy in a fragmented world," Human Development Report 2002

World Bank, 2006 World Development Report - Equity and Development.

Symposium: Intergenerational Mobility  JEP Summer 2002

UC Atlas on Income Inequality

US
Daron Acemoglu, "Technical Change, Inequality, and the labor market," Journal of Economic Perspectives, March 2002
David H. Autor, Frank Levy, and Richard J. Murnane, "Upstairs, Downstairs," Regional Review 2002:2
Jared Bernstein, Lawrence Mishel, and Chauna Brocht, "Any way you cut it: Income inequality on the rise regardless of how it’s measured."  Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper
Barry Bluestone, "The Polarization of American Society: Victims, Suspects, and Mysteries to Unravel,"  Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995
Ray Boshara, "The $6,000 Solution," The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2003
Samuel Bowles, Herbery Gintis, & Melissa Osborne, "The determinants of earnings: A behavioral approach," JEL Dec 2001
Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis, "The Inheritance of Inequality," JEP Summer 2002
Stephanie Boraas and William M. Rodgers III, "How does gender play a role in the earnings gap? an update," Monthly Labor Review March 2003
David Brooks, "One Nation, Slightly Divisible," The Atlantic Monthly, 9/1/2003
David Brooks, "The sticky ladder," NYT 1/25/2005
David Brooks, "Age of Political segregation," NYT 6/29/2004
Douglas Clement, Accounting for the Rich Minn Fed Region June 2003
Douglas Clement, "Beyond “Rich” and “Poor” Minn Fed Region June 2003

Carrie Conaway, Doing Well by Doing Time? Taxes, not culture, account for the difference, according to economist

Dion Dennis, "The digital death rattle of the American middle class," Ctheory.net 11/18/2003
Javier Díaz-Giménez, Vincenzo Quadrini, and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, Dimensions of Inequality: Facts on the U.S. Distributions of Earnings, Income, and Wealth, Quarterly Review, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, Spring 1997
Eric Eckholm, "plight deepens for black men, studies warn," NYT 3/20/2006
Zvi Eckstein & Eva Nagypal, "The evolution of US earnings inequality: 1961-2002*," Quarterly Review MINN 
Zvi Eckstein & Eva Nagypal, "The evolution of US earnings inequality," FRB Minn Quaterly Review, December 2004
"Ever higher society, ever harder to ascend," The Economist 1/1/2005
Geraldine Fabricant, "Old Nantucket Warily Meets the New," NYT June 5, 2005
Fortin, Nicole M. and Thomas Lemieux "Institutional changes and rising wage inequality: is there a linkage?" JEP. Spring 1997

William H. Frey and Dowell Myers' "Neighborhood Segregation in Single-Race and Multirace America: A Census 2000 Study of Cities and Metropolitan Areas". Fannie Mae 2000

"Fun for the masses," The Economist 8/2/1997  adds leisure

John Taylor Gatto, "Against School," Harpers September 2003

Gottschalk, Peter. "Inequality, income growth, and mobility: The basic facts." JEP. Spring 1997

Greenstein and Shapiro, "The new, definitive CBO data on income and tax trends," Center on budget and policy priorities, September 23, 2003

Bob Herbert, "The mobility myth," NYT 6/6/2005

Income Gaps Between High and Low-Income Families Widened in 46 States Since the Late 1970s, Economic Policy Institute, January 18,2000

Elizabeth Jensen, "The Real World: Prestonburg, KY," NYT 1/1/2006 

George Johnson, "Changes in earnings inequality: The role of demand shifts" JEP. Spring 1997

David cay Johnston, "The very richest's share of income grew even bigger, data show," NYT June 26, 2003

David Cay Johnson, "Corporate wealth share rises for top-income Americans," NYT 1/29/2006

David cay Johnston, "richest are leaving even the rich behind," NYT June 5, 2003

Jorgenson, Dale W. "Did we lose the war on poverty?" JEP Winter 1998

David Kamp, "Male like me," NYT 1/22/2006

Arthur B. Kennickell,  A Rolling Tide: Changes in the Distribution of Wealth in the U.S., 1989-2001, Federal Reserve Board - Department of Research & Statistics, Date posted to database: August 11, 2003

Walter Kirn, "Way upstairs, downstairs," NYT 4/16/2006

Paul Krugman, "The End of Middle-Class America," NYT 10/20/2002

Paul Krugman,  "In Defense of the Boom," October 27, 2002

Paul Krugman, "A new civil rights movement," NYT 12/26/2005

Paul Krugman, Letter to the secretary," NYT March 24, 2006

Paul Krugman, "Graduates versus oligarch," NYT 2/27/2006

David Leonhardt, "The College Dropout Boom," NYT May 24, 2005

Michael Lind, "Are we still a middle-class nation," The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004

"Look for the union label," Harpers October 2004

"Minding about the gap," The Economist June 11, 2005

Ed Prescott, European Vacation: Why Americans Work More Than Europeans

"Priceless: A survey of water," The Economist 7/19/2003
"Recent Changes in U.S. Family Finances: Results from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances" Federal Reserve Bulletin  Jan. 2000

Frank Rich, "bring back Warren Harding," the New York Times September 25, 2005

Eric Schlosser, "The prison--industrial complex," The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Dec 1998;

Isaac Shapiro & Robert Greenstein,  "The Widening Income Gulf" (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 4, 1999)

"The changing shape of the Nation's income distribution: 1947-1998,"  US Census Bureau June 2000

"The missing rungs in the ladder," The Economist July 16, 2005

The household balance sheet—Too much debt? (Special Issue) , Sept 2002 No. 181a"The New Americans," The Economist 3/11/2000

Thorsten Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class

Topel, Robert H. "Factor proportions and relative wages: The supply-side determinants of wage inequality" JEP. Spring 1997

Bharat Trehan, "Technical change and the dispersion of wages," FRBSF Aug 9, 2002

Triest, Robert K. "Has poverty gotten worse?" JEP. Winter 1998

Louis Uchitelle, "Two tiers, slipping into one," NYT 2/26, 2006

Howard Wall, "The Gender Wage Cap and Wage Discrimination: Illusion or Reality?" Regional Economist October 2000

Howard Wall & Alyson Reed, "Point/Counterpoint: How Much of the Gender Wage Gap is Due to DiscriminationThe Regional Economist, St. Louis Fed, April 2001  

Stuart Weiner & Stephen Monto, "Income Inequality: A Summary of The Bank's 1998 Symposium," KCFED Economic Review 1998:IV

"What is poverty and who are the poor? Redefinition for the United States in the 1990s" AER May 1998

Christopher Wheeler, "Evidence of wage inequality, worker education, and technology," STL Economic Review May/June 2005

Christopher Wheeler, "Wage Gap Widens, Especially in Cities," The Regional Economist January 2005

Wolff, Edward. "Recent trends in the size distribution of household wealth." JEP. Summer 1998

Edward N. Wolff, "Changes in Household Wealth in the 1980s and 1990s in the U.S.," Jerome Levy Economics Institute, May, 2004

"Would you like your class war shaken or stirred, sir?," The Economist September 6, 2003

 

Reaching the Top: Challenges and Opportunities for Women Leaders, a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on March 3, 2004.

An Introduction by Cathy E. Minehan

SECTION 1: Preparing for a Career
SECTION 2: Progress and Obstacles
SECTION 3: Fair Play in Organizations
SECTION 4: Adding it Up
SECTION 5: Looking Ahead

Data

 

US Census, "The Changing Shape of the Nation's Income Distribution." June 2000

   Income Statistics from the Census Bureau

US Business and Professional Women's Organization

US Department of Labor, Women in the Labor Force: A Databook," Feb 2004

US Department of Labor, "Women at Work: A Visual Essay," Monthly Labor Review October 2003

US Census,  Current Population Reports

Income

The Changing Shape of the Nation's Income Diustribution

Measuring 50 Years of Economic Change--Using the March Current Population Survey

US Department of Labor, Women in the Labor Force: A Databook," Feb 2004

Inequality Agencies /Organizations / Data

UTEP links
An Overview of Social Inequality
Economic Policy Institute
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Counting the Cost of Gender Inequality (United Nations Population Fund)
Inequality & Social Policy: A JFK/Harvard Multidisciplinary Program 
Inequality.org, http://www.inequality.org
Inequality Project,  University of Texas
South-Western: Income Inequality  Index of articles
University of Texas Inequality Project
World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty
Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
UN State of the World's Children
UN Human Development Reports
CEO Compensation database
World Bank Poverty data
map of world income
world gini coefficients

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Discrimination

Kenneth Arrow, "What has economics to say about racial discrimination?," Journal of Economic Perspectives Spring 1998
Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn, "Gender Differences in Pay," Journal of Economic Perspectives Fall 2000
William Darity and Patrick Mason, "Evidence on discrimination in employment: Codes of color, codes of gender," Journal of Economic Perspectives Spring 1998
Maureen Dowd, "Can Mommy Know Best?," NYT 12/10/2005
William T. Gavin, Low Down Payments Boost Home Ownership," The Regional Economist, April 2006
Ann Fisher, "Piercing the bamboo ceiling," Fortune August 22, 2005
James Heckman, "Detecting Discrimination," Journal of Economic Perspectives Spring 1998
Henry Ladd, "Evidence on discrimination in mortgage lending," Journal of Economic Perspectives Spring 1998
Glen Loury, "Discrimination in the post civil-rights era: Beyond market interactions," Journal of Economic Perspectives Spring 1998
Betsey Morris, "How corporate america is betraying women," Fortune 1/10/2005
Steven Raphael, "Anatomy of The Anoatomy of Racial Inequality," JEL Dec 2002
Barbara Reskin, "Unconsciousness raising," Regional Review 2005:1
Tischler, "Where are the women?," Fast Company Feb 2004
John Yinger, "Evidence on discrimination in consumer markets," Journal of Economic Perspectives Spring 1998
Prakish Loungani, "Inequality. Now You See It, Now You Don’t" Finance & Development (September 2003)
"The conundrum of the glass ceiling," The Economist  July 23, 2005
Wives at Work From 1950 to 1990, married women tripled their hours in the workplace. New research suggests that reduced wage discrimination—not better appliances or higher incomes—caused this sea change in the workforce.
Jane Waldfogel, "Unerstanding the 'family gap' in pay for women with children," JEP Winter 1998

Kristie M. Engemann and Michael T. Owyang, " So Much for That Merit Raise: The Link between Wages and Appearance," The Regional Economist April 2005

Labor market & Earnings

Claudia Goldin, "From the valley to the summit," Regional Review 2005:1
McGratten and Rogerson, "Changes in hours worked, 1950-2000," Minn Fed Quarterly Review, July 2004
Prescott, "Why do Americans work so much more than Europeans?, Minn Fed Quarterly Review, July 2004

Industries and a look forward

"A reluctant success," The Economist 6/9/2001
*Francois Bar, "The Construction of Marketplace Architecture," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
Francois Bar, Stephen Cohen, Peter Cowhey, J. Bradford De Long, Michael Kleeman, and John Zysman, "The Next Generation Internet: Promoting Innovation and User- Experimentation," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
Severin Borenstein and Garth Saloner, "Economics and Electronic Commerce," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001
Francis Cairncross, "The Trendspotter's Guide to New Communications," in The Death of Distance
Francis Cairncross, "Reinventing Government, Redefining the Nation State," in The Death of Distance
*Stephen Cohen, J. Bradford De Long, Steven Weber, and John Zysman, "Tools: The Drivers of E-Commerce," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
 "Commentary", MARTIN FELDSTEIN, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Economic Research  in A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming,   August 30 - September 1, 2001 
"Commentary," CHRISTIAN NOYER, Vice President, European Central Bank, in A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming,   August 30 - September 1, 2001
Commentary, "JANET L. YELLEN, A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming,   August 30 - September 1, 2001
Charles Fine & Daniel Raff, "Automotive Industry: Internet-Driven Innovation and Economic Performance," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
Jane Fountain with Carlos Osorio-Urzua, "Public Sector: Early Stage of a Deep Transformation," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
Jeffrey Funk "The Mobile Internet Market: Lessons from Japan's i-Mode System," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
*Austan Goolsbee, "Higher Education: Promises of Future Delivery," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
Gary Hamel, "Edison's Curse," Fortune 3/5/2001
Kevin Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy (1999) 
Martin Kenney, "The growth and development of the Internet in the United States," in The Global Internet Economy, Bruce Kogut (ed)
Martin Kenney and James Curry, "The Internet and the Personal Computer Value Chain," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, Tracking a Transformation: E-commerce and the terms of Competition in Industries
*Michael Kleeman with David Bach, "E-Commerce and Network Architecture: New Perspectives," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
Robert Litan & Alice Rivlin, "The Economy and the Internet: What Lies Ahead?," in The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
"Lessons of a virtual timetable," The Economist 2/17/2001
Brian Mantel, "E-money and e-commerce: Two alternative views of future innovation." Chicago Fed
 Letter March 2001
Andrew McAfee, "Manufacturing: Lowering Boundaries, Improving Productivity," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
"Over the counter e-commerce," The Economist 5/26/2001
Jonatahn Potter, "Con tronting the Digital era: Thoughts on the Music Industry," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, Tracking a Transformation: E-commerce and the terms of Competition in Industries
Don Tapscott, "Twelve Themes of the New Economy," in The Digital Economy, McGraw Hill 1997
*Task Force Comment "Standard Modules and Market Efficiency," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
Task Force Comment "The Boundary Conditions of Services," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
Task Force Comment "What Will the Next Generation of Tools, Networks, and Marketplaces Look Like?," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
"The net imperative," The Economist  
*Lester Thurow's, "Building Wealth" The Atlantic Monthly, June 1999
Steven Weber, "The Political Economy of Open Source Software," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
Alan E. Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure  Chapter 4 and 6
"While Welch waited," The Economist 5/19/2001
Setsuya Sato et al, "E-Finance Developments and Policy Implications," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, Tracking a Transformation: E-commerce and the terms of Competition in Industries
Kevin Kelly, "New Rules for the New Economy," Wired, Sept 1997

History of internet & technology

AlternaTimes timelines.
What Is The Internet (And What Makes It Work) - December, 1999 By Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf
A Brief History of the Internet
A History of Computers
Electronic Computers Within the Ordnance Corps
Elsop History of Computing Links  /   History of Computer Companies Links
Histories of Computing
Histories of the Internet
Hobbes’ Internet Timeline
Robert Kahn,  The Role of Government in the Evolution of the Internet
Virginia Montecito The History of Computing
Phil Reese History of computing links
Universiteit Leiden, History of Internet
U of Southern CT, The Research Center on Computing & Society
U of Southern CT, History of Computing - Computer
U VA Computer Museum
Webb & Associates, Chronology of Events in the History of  Personal Computers and History of Telecommunications

Digital Divide

New Connections, Old Exclusions: Ethnic Minorities in Ireland’s Information Society
Bridging Cultural and Digital Divides: Signifying Everyday Life, Cultural Diversity and Participation in the On-line Community Video Nation (PDF)
Digital Opportunity Channel
Emerging Social Gaps

Introduction

Francis Cairncross, "The Third Transport Revolution," in The Death of Distance
*Alfred Chandler Jr., "The Information Age in Historical perspective: Introduction," in Chandler and Cortada, A Nation Transformed by Information
*Alfred Chandler Jr., "The Information Age: Continuities and Differences," in Chandler and Cortada, A Nation Transformed by Information
Stephen Cohen, J. Bradford DeLong, and John Zysman, An E-conomy?, December 1999
Stephen Cohen, J. Bradford DeLong, and John Zysman, Tools for Thought: What is New and Important about the "E-conomy"  BRIE Working Paper #138  2000
J. Bradford DeLong, "The New Economy in Historical Perspective," June, 2001
J. Bradford De Long and Lawrence H. Summers, "<The New Economy: Background, Questions, Speculations," in Economic Policies for the Information Age (Kansas City: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, forthcoming)
*Peter Drucker, "Beyond the Information RevolutionThe Atlantic Monthly, October, 1999 
*Peter Drucker, "The Age of Social Transformation," The Atlantic Monthly, November 1994
*Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat, ch 1.
*Robert Gordon, "Does the New Economy Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? April 2000 Draft of Paper for Journal of Economic Perspectives
Thomas Hughes, " Industrial Revolutions: From Canal Systems to Computer Networks, " the Gould Distinguished Lecture Series, Annual Address in 2000.  
Kevin L. Kliesen and David C. Wheelock, "The Microchip Flexes Its Muscle: Can It Compare with History's Best?", St. Louis Fed's The Regional Economist July 2001
Robert E. Litan and William A. Niskanen, Going Digital! : A Guide to Policy in the Digital Age, Brookings, 1998
Timothy Taylor, "Thinking About a New Economy," Public Interest, Spring 2001 Issue 143  
Alan E. Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure  Chapter 1

New Economy and Why US?

*Martin N. Bailey and Robert Lawrence , "Do We Have A New E-conomy?"  
Gary Becker, "It's Simple: Hike the Minimum Wage, and You Put People Out of Work," Business Week, 3/6/95
Lynn Browne, "U.S. Economic Performance: Good Fortune, Bubble, or New Era?" New England Economic Review, M/J 1999
"Bursting bubbles," The Economist, August 6, 199?
Francis Cairncross, "The Third Transport Revolution," in The Death of Distance
"Catch up if you can," The Economist, September 23, 2001
*Clayton Christensen, Thomas Craig, and Stuart Hart, "The Great Disruption," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2001
*Council of Economic Advisors' 2001 Economic Report of the President. Chapter 1 
Brad De Long, The Economic History of the Twentieth Century: Slouching Towards Utopia?  
J. Bradford De Long and Lawrence H. Summers, "The New Economy: Background, Questions, Speculations," in Economic Policies for the Information Age (Kansas City: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, forthcoming)
James Fallows, “Containing Japan,” Atlantic Monthly May 1989
*James Fallows, "How the World Works," The Atlantic Monthly, December 1993
James Fallows, Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System, Vintage Books, 1995
"Introducing big government," The Economist, December 31, 1999
Jane Katz, Business to Business on the Internet: Use of the Internet is slowly transforming the economy, Regional Review Bostoin Fed, 2000:2 
Bruce Kogut, "Introduction: The Internet has Borders," in The Global Internet Economy, Bruce Kogut, (ed)
Robert Litan, The Death of the Dot-coms Spells the Beginning of the End of the New Economy
Robert E. Litan and Alice M. Rivlin, "The Economy and the Internet: What Lies Ahead," in The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution, Internet Policy Institute, Brookings Institution Press
John Markoff, "A Rebel in Japan, an Inventor is Hailed as an Innovator in U.S.,"  New York Times, September 18, 2002
Floyd Norris, "In Bad Times, Blame Speculators," 
Rob Norton, "Dumbed-Down Economics," Fortune 1/7/2002
*OECD,  The New Economy: Beyond the Hype, 2001
"Oil: The latest shock," The Economist September 18, 1999
William Sahlman, "The New Economy is Stronger Than You Think," Harvard Business Review, N/D 1999
William Sharpe, "Winners and Losers in Oil-Price Fall," New York Times, March 24, 1986
"The good (and bad) model guide," The Economist, April 10, 1999
Frank Webster, Theories of the Information Society, Chapter 2, "Information and the Idea of an Information Society." 1995
Alan E. Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure  Chapter 3
"Why internet shares will fall," The Economist

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