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Readings

Required Readings
Akerlof, George A. "Behavioral Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Behavior." American Economic Review 92, no. 3 (June 2002): 411-433.

Becker, Gary. The Economic Approach to Human Behavior. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990, chap. 1, 8, 12 and 13.
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Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." In Four Essays on Liberty. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969.
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Dimaggio, Paul, and Walter Powell. "Introduction." In The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Federalist Paper #10. (PDF - 2 MB)

Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962, pp. 1-55, 108-137, 161-190.
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Hall, Peter, and David Soskice. Varieties of Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 1-68.

Hayek, Frederich. Individualism and Economic Order. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949, chap. 1, 2, 4, and 5.
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Howard, M. C., and J. E. King. The Political Economy of Marx. New York: New York University Press, pp. 1-180.

Keynes, J. M. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1997, chap. 1-3, 8-13, and 24.

Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Locke, John. Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690). Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986, chap. 1- 5 and 7-9. (PDF)
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Marx, Karl. Capital. In Marx-Engels Reader. Edited by Robert C. Tucker. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 1978, pp. 294-465.

Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto. In Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 469-500. (PDF)

Marx, Karl. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. (Read in entirety, not in Tucker version) (PDF)

Marx, Karl. "Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ." In Marx-Engels Reader, pp. 3-6.

North, Douglass. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971, chap. 1-4.
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Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon Hill, 1944, chap. 3-14.
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Rubin, I. I. Essays on Marx's Theory of Value. Detroit, Mich.: Black & Red, 1972, Introduction, chap. 1, 8, and 18.

Romer, Paul. "The Origins of Endogenous Growth." Journal of Economic Perspectives 8, no. 1 (1994): 3-22.

Sahlins, Marshall. Culture and Practical Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976, chap. 1, 3, and 5.
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Stiglitz, Joseph E. "Information and the Change in the Paradigm in Economics." American Economic Review 92, no. 3 (June 2002): 460-501.

Swidler, Ann. Talk of Love: How Culture Matters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, chap. 1, 2, 5, 8, and Conclusion.

Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Translation and introduction by Stephen Kalberg. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, Introduction, chap. 1-3 and 5.
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Recommended Readings
Dobb, Maurice. Theories of Value and Distribution since Adam Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975.

Gramsci, Antonio. Prison Notebooks. Edited and translated by Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1971, pp. 1-276.

Hall, Peter, and Rosemary Taylor. "Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms." Political Studies 44, no. 5 (December 1996): 936-957.

Harsanyi, John. "Rational-Choice Models of Political Behavior vs. Functionalist and Conformist Theories." World Politics 21 (October 1968-June 1969): 513-537.

Mankiw, Gregory. "A Quick Refresher Course in Macroeconomics." Journal of Economic Literature 28, no. 4 (1990): 1645-1660.

Solow, Robert. "Perspectives on Growth Theory." Journal of Economic Perspectives 8, no. 1 (1994): 45-54.