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US Political Economy-

History 20th Century+    

Decades Evaluated  

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Law Coding and the Financial Crisis

Tax Changes for a Post COVID America

Taxing The Rich

The Limits of Liberty:
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Classical Liberalism

Debt, Taking A Stand On Our National
Demand And Supply Of Public Goods, The
Demand And Supply Of Public Goods, The

Economics for the 99% Booklet
Econometrics from Bookboon
Econometrics  
Econometrics by Bruce Hanson
of U of Wisconsin (2015)
Econometrics, Financial
Econometrics, Probability, Statistics and Lecture Notes

Econometrics Video Lectures
Economic Analysis of Law

Economic Analysis, Introduction to
requires calculus
Economic Development
Economic Development
Economics in One Lesson

Economics, Living
Economy, Online of the U.S.

Field Guide to the U.S. Economy
Fiscal Foundations, History of Successful for US pp181-224

Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food


Global Competitiveness Report 2011–2012, The
Global Imbalances and the Collapse of Globalised Finance
Green New Deal: Using Climate Policy to Address Inequality

IB Economics from Wikibooks
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Network, The Wealth of: How Social

Production Transforms Markets, Freedom
 
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Strategy for Information Markets

Tax System for the United States, A New
Tax, The Power to
The Demand And Supply Of Public Goods
The Joy of Economics
The Rise and Decline of Nations
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms
Transportation Economics Wikibooks

The Demand And Supply Of Public Goods
The Joy of Economics
U.S. Economy, Outline of the

What Has Government Done to Our Money?

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1984     1984 Spark Notes
Animal Farm Audio Book   Animal Farm YouTube Spark's
Affluent Society, The
Atlas Shrugged from Ayn Rand Collection
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     AR and C Hutchens On God 18 min   Christopher Hitchens vs. Ayn Rand
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Brave New World audio  Spark Notes
A. Huxley Interview
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Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy J. Schumpeter video
Civil Disobedience, On the Duty of
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Communism, The Principles, F, Engels
Communist Party, The Manifesto of the Capital: A Critique of Political Economy,
Vol. I. The Process of Capitalist Production
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy,
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. I
II. The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Critique of Pure Judgment, E. Kant a new philosophy
Das Kapital C. Marx changes the next century
Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville
You Tube Audio       Audio The
Economic Consequences of the Peace, The Keynes
Employment, Interest and Money, General Theory of

Federalist, The Founders design a democratic government
France. Reflections on Revolution in E Burk on government
Free to Choose 10 videos M. Friedman
Frenzied Finance: Crime of Amalgamated , T._Lawson 1906
Gilded Age The Mark Twain’s book on a
wealthy society
How the Other Half Lives 1890's tenement life

Human Action Mises's defense of capitalism
International Trade, Studies in Theory of
J. Viner

Jungle, The  Upton Sinclair

Knowledge in Society, The Use of F.Hayek

Letter on England Voltaire
Leviathan T. Hobbs begins social contract discussions
summary
Liberty, The Limits of  James Buchanan

Lombard Street: a Description of the Money Market
Muckrakers and their works
Octopus, The A Story of California. Book 1 of a trilogy 
Political Economy, Elements of  James Mill
Politics 1   Book 2   youtube 1   youtube 2 
Politics as a Vocation pdf Max Weber

Politics as a Vocation

Population, An Essay on the Principle of T. Malthus
Power Elite, The Study of power distribution in 1950's America
Prince, The Machiavelli defines cutthroat politics

Progress and Poverty Henry Georg Excerpt
Republic, The Plato begins the discussion of political economy
Revolution in France, Reflections on E. Burke
Letters on a Regicide Peace
Thoughts on Present Discontents

Rights of Man, The T. Paine joins the founders of Democracy

Road to Serfdom, The
Second Treatise of Civil Government, The J. Lock

Social Reform or Revolution R. Luxemburg

The State & Revolution, V. Lenin

Theory of the Leisure Class Audio   T. Vebl3n
Theory of Moral Sentiment, The  Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Audio 1   2 and 3

Woman, A Vindication of the Rights of by Mary Wollonecraft
Worldly Philosopher, The

 

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Western Civilization Economic History

Political Eras 1788-2016

Political Cycles 1896-2019

Trump's New Political Era?

6 Political Eras 1788-2016

Presidential Election/Contributions

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3. Economic Wellbeing

4. Building Our Democratic
Federalist Capitalistic Republic

5. Populism in the 21st Century

6. History of U.S. Political Economy

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Politics
Political Systems
The Fourth Turning 

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Prelude
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1. Global Economic Growth and the Rise of Populism

2. U.S. Russia, China, Rivals,
 Adversaries, Enemies

3. Understanding China

4. 21st Century Geopolitical Options

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 S Gandesha, M Sandel, _Zeihan
 

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7. Fourth Turning

8. Grand Strategy

9. Lost Hegemony?

International Greatness 

Economic Greatness

 

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Generations and The Fourth Turning 2p
by W. Strauss and N. Howeh
Biographies Edited by Walter
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Presidents
Presidential Courage 8p
Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 by M. Beschloss 
Nixonland
The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
American Dynasty 6p
Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush, K Phillips
Thomas Jefferson 8p
The Art of Power 2012  Jon Meacham 
Second Chance
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Turning Points in American History 10p
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Our Democratic Federalist Republic

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2019 Economic Report of the President

Defending the One Percent
Political History
  
Political Eras
   
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Is U.S. Free Enterprise Working?
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1984     1984 Spark Notes
Animal Farm Audio Book
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Affluent Society, The
Atlas Shrugged from Ayn Rand Collection
    
Ayn Rand Interview 27 min. video
    
Ayn Rand 1 of 4 83 min.
     AR and C Hutchens On God 18 min
     Christopher Hitchens vs. Ayn Rand
87 min
    
Editorial on Ayn Rand
Bees The Fable of
Brave New World audio  Spark Notes
     A. Huxley Interview 29 min video
    
Who are We A. Huxley 69 min video
    
Today's 1957 World A. Huxley

Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy  J. Schumpeter video
Civil Disobedience, On the Duty of  Thoreau audio
Communism, The Principles, F, Engels

Communist Party, The Manifesto of the

Critique of Pure Judgment, The E. Kant a new philosophy
Das Kapital C. Marx changes the next century
Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville

You Tube Audio       Audio The
Economic Consequences of the Peace, The Keynes
Economics of imperfect competition. The, Robinson audio
Employment, Interest and Money, General Theory of
Federalist, The Founders design a democratic government
France. Reflections on Revolution in E Burk on government
Free to Choose 10 videos M. Friedman
Frenzied Finance: Crime of Amalgamated , T._Lawson 1906
Gilded Age The
Mark Twain’s book on a wealthy society
How the Other Half Lives 1890's tenement life
Human Action Mises's defense of capitalism
Imperfec Competion, The Economics of
Joan Robinson
International Trade, Studies in Theory of
J. Viner

Jungle, The  Upton Sinclair

 

Knowledge in Society, The Use of F.Hayek


Letter on England Voltaire
Leviathan T. Hobbs begins social contract discussions
summary

Liberty, The Limits of  James Buchanan

Lombard Street: a Description of the Money Market
Muckrakers and their works
Octopus, The A Story of California. Book 1 of a trilogy
Political Economy, Elements of  James Mill

Politics 1   Book 2   youtube 1   youtube 2  Aristotle

Politics as a Vocation pdf Max Weber

See Politics as a Vocation

Population, An Essay on the Principle of T. Malthus
Power Elite, The Study of power distribution in 1950's America
Prince, The Machiavelli
defines cutthroat politics

Progress and Poverty Henry Georg Excerpt
Republic, The Plato begins the discussion of political economy

Rights of Man, The T. Paine joins the founders of Democracy

Road to Serfdom, The F.A. Hayek
Second Treatise of Civil Government, The J. Lock

Social Reform or Revolution R. Luxemburg

The State & Revolution, V. Lenin

Theory of the Leisure Class Audio   T. Vebl3n
Theory of Moral Sentiment, The  Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Audio 1   2 and 3
Woman, A Vindication of the Rights of by Mary Wollonecraft
Worldly Philosopher, The

5. Classics in the Making

The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Columbia Katharina Pistor

Liberal Democracy in Peril?

Austerity - History of a Dangerous Idea 67min. 
Author Interview
56 min.
 

The Great Deformation 68 min.
David Stockman Author Interview
57 min.


New 21st Century Thoughts On Capital

T. Piketty 21 min. Debate 79 min

Globalization and Its Discontents by

Joseph Stiglitz  Discussion 62 min.

Steve Kr\eene
The New Economics-a-manifesto

 

6. Top Podcasts
1. Michael Munger on the Sharing Economy
2. Marc Andreessen on Venture Capital and the Digital Future
3. Bryan Caplan on College, Signaling and Human Capital
4. R. Roberts, M. Munger, Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
5. S. Altman Start-ups, Venture Capital, and Y Combinator
6. Nina Munk on Poverty, Development, and the Idealist
7. D. G. Myers on Cancer, Dying, and Living
8. Daron Acemoglu on Inequality, Institutions, and Piketty
9. William Easterly on the Tyranny of Experts
10. Jonathan Haidt on the Righteous Mind
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Economic Cycles Studies

Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?

US Economic Normality 1945-2015  p 2
Post WW2 Competitive Adjustment
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Liberalism, Constitutionalism and Democracy
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The Law of Returns Under Competitive Conditions, Piero Sraffa. Sraffa makes an early case against marginalist theories of the firm based on their observed behavior, particularly their use of spare capacity and absence of increasing marginal costs.
 

Economic Philosophy, Joan Robinson. Gives an overview of economic thought, showing how it is almost always impossibly intertwined with ideology.
 

IS/LM: an explanation, John Hicks. The creator of IS/LM critiques IS/LM, based largely on the confusion surrounding Keynes’ use of ‘uncertainty’.
 

Modern critiques

What Is Neoclassical Economics?, Yanis Varoufakis and Christian Arsnberger. The article that was set for our first reading group, this tries to define neoclassical economics rigorously.
 

What is this ‘school’ called neoclassical economics?, Tony Lawson. Does the same as the above article, but adopts a slightly different, broader definition to Varoufakis and Arsnperger.
 

Neoclassical Economics: A Most Peculiar Failure, Yanis Varoufakis. Notes the surprising resilience of the neoclassical paradigm given its remarkable failure in the recent crisis.
 

Debunking Economics, Steve Keen. Takes aim at numerous neoclassical theories for internal inconsistency, and presents an alternative model of the macroeconomy, suitable for modeling financial crises.
 

The Skeptical Economist: Revealing the Ethics Inside Economics, Jonathan Aldred. Throws doubt on a lot of the ‘value-free’, market-based ideas implied by economics and economists.
 

Georgism/Land Economics
 

Progress and Poverty, Henry George. Regarded by himself and his followers as the ultimate solution, this book outlines the role land plays in extracting economic rent, making the economy less productive and producing poverty.
 

The Use of Knowledge in Society, Friedrich Hayek. Hayek defends a market economy over planning on the basis of imperfect knowledge and disequilibrium.
 

History of Thought
 

The Worldly Philosophers, Robert L Heilbroner. The classic text for the history of thought, that should need no introduction. Sketches out the development of economic thought from Adam Smith through Karl Marx to neoclassical economists and Keynes.
 

Adam’s Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology, Duncan Foley. Has the same theme as above, but also traces the history of the idea that the economic sphere is a separate, ‘natural’ phenomenon with which we cannot interfere. An excellent introduction to the history of thought from a heterodox perspective.

Marxism
 

Reclaiming Marx’s Capital: A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency by Andrew Kliman. An excellent and simple exposition of the labour theory of value. Mathematical, but mostly just tables and arithmetic, and clears up the confusion. Aims to show that the labour theory of value is a coherent, valid theory, though it makes no attempt to discern whether it is correct.
 

The Failure of Capitalist Production: Underlying Causes of the Great Recession. The same author as above tries to make the empirical case for the labour theory of value based on the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, and relates it to the 2008 financial crisis. Paste this link into your browser to get 30% off this book! http://bit.ly/qcCMGr
 

hemed ‘post crash’ reading list.
 

Institutional Economics

How Markets Work: Demand, Supply and the ‘Real World’, Robert Prasch. Builds up some alternative theories of demand-supply and makes some interesting ethical/political observations along the way. Short, readable and available from the University Library.
 

Institutional Economics: Surveying the ‘Old’ and the ‘New’, Geoff Hodgson takes a look at both ‘types’ of institutional economics, debating the relative pros and cons of each.

erso Books have also published a Marxist-t
 

Organisations and Markets, Herbert Simon argues that organisations – firms, governments, unions and so forth – are really the dominant way resources are allocated in society, and that economics should shift away from its focus on markets to reflect this.
 

Anthropology
 

Debt: the First 5000 Years, David Graeber. Graeber outlines what he calls the “myth of barter”, stated by many economics textbooks, which argues that money arose because it helped people exchange cows and chickens more easily. He shows that this is not borne out by the historical record: historically, societies have engaged in ‘trade’ through credit relations.
 

Austrian Economics
 

Keynes Betrayed: The General Theory, the Rate of Interest and ‘Keynesian’ Economics, Geoff Tily. Discusses the difference between ‘Keynes’ as taught in classrooms and Keynes’ own theories. Relevant to contemporary debates about monetary policy.
 

The Financial Crisis
 

No One Saw This Coming“, Dirk J Bezemer. Notes the 11 economists who made sound predictions of when the financial crisis would happen and how it would happen.
 

Whoops!, John Lanchester. The most readable introduction to the financial crisis, written by a journalist. Great if you can’t separate your AIGs from your CDOs.

 

Au

ECONNED, Yves Smith. Probably the best book on ‘what happened’ the financial crisis, and also links in the role of economic theories.

 

The Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions, Irving Fisher. Short outline of how an indebted economy can suffer from prolonged deflationary depressions, written by Fisher after his faith was shaken in the 1929 stock market crash. Relevant to the recent crisis.

Other Sciences on Economics
 

Economyths, David Orrell. An Applied mathematician takes his toolkit to mainstream economics. Highly readable and a great introduction to the dynamic thinking used in many natural sciences.
 

The New Evolutionary Economics, Jason Pott. A biological/game theoretical/Schumpeterian perspective on firms, complexity and expectations.
 

The Origin of Wealth, Eric Beinhocker. Uses complexity science and ideas from various disciplines, most notably biology, to model the economy as a network.
 

Worrying Trends in Econophysics, Keen et. al. A group of heterodox economists criticise physicists’ attempts at economics. Econophysicist Joseph McCauley also has a rebuttal.
 

Mainstream Economics
 

The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford. The best introduction to economists’ ‘way of thinking’: readable, lucid, and informative.

 

The Accidental Theorist, Paul Krugman. A nice collection of short stories designed to elucidate certain theories endorsed by mainstream economists.
 

Taking Economics Seriously, Dean Baker. Defends the field of economics from some common criticisms, arguing that it has tools suitable for event such as the crisis – if only economists would use them.
 

Development

The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly. An empirical, mainstream survey of various development panaceas and their discontents.

 

Kicking Away the Ladder, Ha-Joon Chang. Dr Chang, who spoke in our first guest lecture, discusses the rich countries’ use of industrial policy during their development phase, and their subsequent dismissal of the policy for currently poor countries.

 

Bad Samaritans, Ha-Joon Chang. The follow up to the above, this is more polemic and looks at the interests and institutions behind ‘free trade’ deals. Contains resposnes to critics of KAtL (such as Easterly above).

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Post WW 2 Global Economic Growth, Competitive Adjustments, Rise of Populism

Post WW 2 Economic Chronology

Neo Liberal Economist Caused Financial Collapse

Democracy Failures Caused Latest Popularism

Understanding Left Right Populism

Populism is the Rise

Wage Stagnation Causes

Trump's New Political Era?

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Russia Moscow Rules

 

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