Institutional Economics

Institutional Economics - Syllabus

Historical Perspective of Modern Economics - Syllabus (pdf file)

• Chinese History in Economic Perspective. University of California Prss, Berkeley - by Rawski, Thomas G., and Lillian M. Li (editors) 1992
• CORRUPTION by Roger Bowles
• Recent trends in economic theory : implications for development geography by Erik S. Reinert and Vemund Riiser
• Recommended Readings and Websites Covering Recent Trends in Macroeconomic Theory
• What’s wrong with contemporary economics? PAUL STREETEN
• Revolution and Evolution in Twentieth-Century Macroeconomics by Michael Woodford
• Speculative Microeconomics for Tomorrow's Economy by J. Bradford DeLong
• AGGREGATION IN PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS: WHAT APPLIED ECONOMISTS SHOULD KNOW by Jesus Felipe and FM Fisher
• Aggregate production functions and growth economics by Jonathan Temple
• The Challenge of Total Factor Productivity Measurement by Erwin Diewert
• THE MEASUREMENT OF AGGREGATE TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH by W. Erwin Diewert and Alice O. Nakamura
• Is a theory of total productivity really needed? by Jesus Felipe and SL McCombie
• Productivity Growth: Theory and Measurement by David T. Owyong
• ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE OECD AREA: RECENT TRENDS AT THE AGGREGATE AND SECTORAL LEVEL by Stefano Scarpetta, Andrea Bassanini, Dirk Pilat and Paul Schreyer
• Learning and the Embodied Mind (website)
• Prologue: Economics and the Wealth of Nations and People by Samuel Bowles
• THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT by Douglass C. North

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber (1905/1930)