Course Requirements: http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/great-books-course-requirements.html: This course aims to provide students with an introduction to ...

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J. Bradford DeLong: Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley #3880, Berkeley, CA 94720-3880; 925 708 0467; delong@econ.berkeley.edu J. Bradford DeLong is a professor of economics and an associate ...

George Pólya: How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1400828678 George Pólya: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning ...

Central Bank Credibility and Consistency: The Analytics http://j-bradford-delong.net/macro_online/credibility_analytics.pdf Inflation, Unemployment, and Stabilization ...

Arguments that looser monetary policy right now would be too risky: The Jeremy Stein argument: At very low interest rates, banks will gamble not quite for resurrection but for (apparent) profitability ...

Moses Finley (1965): Technical Innovation and Economic Progress in the Ancient World https://delong.typepad.com/finley-technical.pdf Moses Finley: The World of ...

1 qualitative review question 1 BIG IDEA question 1 calculation question 2 minutes: what did we learn last time? 5 minute discussion (17 minutes): Lecture/Document ...

J. Bradford DeLong (2008): 1870: The Real Industrial Revolution: The most important fact to grasp about the world economy of 1870 is that the economy then belonged much more to its past of the Middle ...

From Greg Clark (2001), "The Secret History of the Industrial Revolution": The modest productivity growth rates of the Industrial Revolution owed mostly to productivity gains in one sector, textile ...

Via Andrew Sullivan, Damon Linker: I agree that the strong second-generation neocon emphasis on nationalism and warmaking as a means to overcoming domestic nihilism does lean in the direction of ...

Weekly Memo Questions Bank: https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/memo-questions.html The Usefulness? of Economic History https://delong.typepad.com/teaching ...