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DRAFT Syllabus Econ 1 Fall 2010 U.C. Berkeley
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Economics 1: Principles of Economics
**Department of Economics University of California at Berkeley Fall 2010
Course website: http://delong.typepad.com/econ_1_fall_2010/
Lecturer: J. Bradford DeLong delong@econ.berkeley.edu Evans 601
Head GSI: Mike Urbancic urbancic@berkeley.edu Evans 508-2
Professor's Office Hours: Brad DeLong, Evans 601. Drop-in hours W2-4 and (most) F12-1 in Wheeler Auditorium.
Head GSI's Office Hours: Mike Urbancic Evans 508-2. Until...
A Purge at the Cato Institute
Dave Weigel writes: A Purge at the Cato Institute?
I am told that the question mark should be a period.
Summer Reading Assignment for Econ 1, U.C. Berkeley, Fall 2010
Date May 9, 2010 4:04 PM PDT
From Brad DeLong brad.delong@gmail.com
Subject Summer Assignments for Econ 1, Fall 2010
Body Before you show up here in the fall for Econ 1, please read:
The whole book of Partha Dasgupta, Economics: A Very Short Introduction (ISBN #: 0192853457 Publisher: Oxford) http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Very-...
The "Introduction" and chapters 1 through 5 of Book I (i.e., I:1-5) of Adam Smith, An Inquiry...
Hoisted from the Archive: Friedrich Hayek's "Shut Up and Be Grateful You Are Alive!" Argument
From July 8, 2003:
Note: Hayek and Democracy: I have long been of the opinion that Friedrich Hayek saw more deeply into why the market economy is so productive--the use of knowledge in society, competition as a discovery procedure, et cetera--than neoclassical economics, with its Welfare Theorems that under appropriate conditions the competitive market equilibrium (a) is Pareto-Optimal or (b) maximizes a social welfare function that is the sum of individual utilities in which each...
Department of "Huh?!": HAMP Edition
Tracy Alloway:
Moving targets, US housing edition: If at first you don’t succeed . . . move the goal-posts. In the grand tradition of stimulus policy gone wrong, that seems to be just what the US Treasury has done in relation to its Hamp mortgage modification programme. Via Mike Konczal over at Rortybomb, who attended one of the blogger-meets at the Treasury last week:
They are sticking by HAMP. The narrative seemed to change from helping homeowners to spacing out the...
H. G. Wells Interviews Vladimir Lenin, 1920
Vladimir Lenin in 1920:
Even now, all the agricultural production of Russia is not peasant production. We have, in places, large scale agriculture. The Government is already running big estates with workers instead of peasants, where conditions are favourable. That can spread. It can be extended first to one province, then another. The peasants in the other provinces, selfish and illiterate, will not know what is happening until their turn comes...
From H.G. Wells's Russia...
H. G. Wells Liveblogs the Consolidation of the Bolshevik Regime
Wells, 1920:
The vindictive French creditor, the journalistic British oaf, are far more responsible for these deathbed miseries [of Russia:] than any communist...
From H.G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows, 1920:
Russia in the Shadows: We spent a fortnight and a day in Russia, passing most of our time in Petersburg, where we went about freely by ourselves, and were shown nearly everything we asked to see.... In Petersburg I did not stay at the Hotel International, to which foreign...
Moderate Muslims
Clair Berlinski:
Moderate Islam and the Things People Miss: I posted a link to our conversation about whether Islam itself is the enemy to my Facebook page. Some of my friends here in Istanbul (who are Moslems, and, as the word "friend" suggests, not my enemy) weighed in with responses that I think confirm my assertion that the Islamic world is not monolithic. In particular, my friend Babür left a long, thoughtful response....
I later left this comment: I've just walked down a...
August 22, 2010
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