Readings

Romer, David. Advanced Macroeconomics. Second Edition. New York: McGraw Hill, 2001.

Temin, Peter. Lessons from the Great Depression. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989, paperback.

Abramovitz, Moses. "Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind." In  Journal of Economic History, 46(June 1986): 385-406.

Abramovitz, Moses, and Paul A. David. "American Macroeconomic Growth in the Era of Knowledge-Based Progress: A Long-Run Interpretation." In The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Volume 3. Edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 1-40 only.

Bordo, Michael D., and Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White. The Defining Moment:The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Chang, Ha-Joon. Kicking Away the Ladder-Development Strategy in  Historical Perspective (London: Anthem Press, 2002).

Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office. The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2003-2012. Chapters 1, 6.

DeLong, Bradford. J. "Cornucopia: The Pace of Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century." NBER Working Paper 7602 (March 2000).

Denison, Edward F. Why Growth Rates Differ,(Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1967) Chap. 21, 296-301, 319-345 only.

Diamond, Peter A., and Peter R. Orszag. "Reducing Benefits and Subsidizing
Individual Accounts: An Analysis   of the Plans Proposed by the President's  Commission to Strengthen Social Security."

Easterlin, Richard A. "The Worldwide Standard of Living Since 1800." In Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14(Winter 2000):7-26.

Easterly, William. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

Eichengreen, Barry, and Jeffrey Sachs. "Exchange Rates and Economic Recovery in the 1930s." In Journal of Economic History, 45 (December 1985): 925-46.

Feinstein, Charles, Peter Temin, and Gianni Toniolo. The European Economy Between the Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Ghosh, Atish R., Ann-Marie Gulde, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Holger Wolf. "Does the Exchange Rate Matter for Inflation and Growth?" In Economic Issues 2 (Washington, DC: IMF, 2000).

Gruber, Jonathan, and David Wise. "Social Security, Retirement Incentives, and Retirement Behavior: An International Perspective." In  Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy. Edited by Alan J. Auerbach and Ronald D. Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 159-90.

Jones Charles I. "On the Evolution of the World Income Distribution." In Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11(Summer 1997): 19-36.

Lee, Ronald, and Jonathan Skinner. "Will Aging Baby Boomers Bust the Federal Budget?" In Journal of Economic Perspectives, 13(Winter 1999): 117-40.

McArthur John W., and Jeffrey D. Sachs. "Institutions and Geography: Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2000)". NBER Working Paper 8114

Nickell, Stephen. "Unemployment and Labor Market Rigidities; Europe versus North America." In Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11(Summer 1997): 55-74.

Rothermund, Dietmar. The Global Impact of the Great Depression, 1929-1939. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Sachs, Jeffery. "Reforms in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in Light of the East Asian Experience." In Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 9(December 1995): 454-485.

Siegel, Jeremy J., and Richard H. Thaler. "Anomalies: The Equity Premium Puzzle." In Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11: 191-200.

Svegnar, Jan. "Transition Economies: Performance and Challenges." In Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16(Winter 2002): 3-28. 

Temin, Peter. "Evolutionary History: A Review Essay." In Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 3: 405-16.

____.  "The Golden Age of European Economic Growth Reconsidered." In European Review of Economic History, 6(April 2002), 3-22.

Young, Alwyn. "Lessons from the East Asian NICs: A contrarian view." In European Economic Review, 38(April 1994), 964-73.