Handbooks and reading lists in Political Economy

Stephen Kinsella, University of Limerick

Handbook and reading list from a 12-week course given in Autumn 2019.

Published or updated: 2019

Gérard Roland, University of California, Berkeley

Reading list for a 13-lecture course delivered in 2017, based around Persson and Tabellini's Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy.

Published or updated: 2017

Introduction To Political Economy

Daron Acemogl & Benjamin Olken, MIT

Graduate-level introduction to political economy, with reading lists, lecture slides and problem sets.

Published or updated: 2017

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)

Political Economy I

Suzanne Berger and Michael Piore, MIT

Syllabus, reading list, reading questions and essay suggestions from a graduate level course taught in Spring 2016.

Published or updated: 2016

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)

Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform

Douglas W. Rae, Yale University

Video lectures from a course delivered in 2009. "In this course, we will seek to interpret capitalism using ideas from biological evolution: Firms pursuing varied strategies and facing extinction when those strategies fail are analogous to organisms struggling for survival in nature. For this reason, it is less concerned with ultimate judgment of capitalism than with the ways it can be shaped to fit our more specific objectives -- for the natural environment, public health, alleviation of poverty, and development of human potential in every child. Each book we read will be explicitly or implicitly an argument about good and bad consequences of capitalism."

Published or updated: 2009

Licence: Standard YouTube Licence