Monday, August 25, 2008

Brad Delong... reading list for Jim

History of Political Economy: A New Course I Am Not Going to Teach This Year--or the Year After
By Brad DeLong

Sigh:

Classics:

Albert Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests
David Hume, "On the Balance of Trade"
Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
Paul Krugman, Ricardo's Difficult Idea http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/ricardo.htm
David Ricardo, On Foreign Trade (chapter 7 of Principles of Political Economy and Taxation)
David Ricardo, An Essay on the Influence of a Low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (selections)
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Wage Labor and Capital
Karl Marx, Capital (selections)
Late Classics:

Alfred Marshall, Principles of Political Economy (selections)
Max Weber, The National State and Economic Policy
Norman Angell, The Great Illusion
Neoclassics:

Polanyi, The Great Transformation (selections)
John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace
John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform
John Maynard Keynes, Essays in Persuasion
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
Friedrich Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Friedman
James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, The Calculus of Consent
Moderns (Africa):

Albert Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Robert Bates, Markets and States in Tropical Africa
James Scott, Seeing Like a State
Rene Dumont, False Start in Africa
Margaret Macmillan et al., When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique
Daron Acemoglu et al., An African Success Story: Botswana



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Jim Nichols
A Speculative Fiction
www.JimNichols4.com

1 comment:

Jay said...

Nice series of posts, sir!