Must- and Should-Reads: April 14, 2017
- Barry Eichengreen and Brad DeLong (2013): New Preface to Charles Kindleberger, “The World in Depression 1929-1939”: “Anyone fortunate enough to live in New England in 1970-1985 or so and possessed of even a limited interest in international financial and monetary history… http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/04/new-preface-to-charles-kindleberger-the-world-in-depression-1929-1939.html
- Dani Rodrik: A Foreword to Kari Polanyi Levitt: “I first encountered Karl Polanyi as an undergraduate, in a course on comparative politics… http://rodrik.typepad.com/dani_rodriks_weblog/2017/03/a-foreword-to-kari-polanyi-levitt.html
Interesting Reads:
- Justin Fox: The De-Electrification of the U.S. Economy: “The ‘old thermoelectric power complex’ was decidedly not on the cusp of a big boom in 1999…” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-12/the-de-electrification-of-the-u-s-economy
- Afaf Lutfi Sayyid-Marsot (1984): Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali https://books.google.com/books?id=KCz7N-GYKRcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_book_other_versions#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Carlos F.Diaz Alejandro (1984): Essays on the Economic History of the Argentine Republic http://amzn.to/2p0D08V
- Peter Evans (1995): Embedded Autonomy http://amzn.to/2p0ID74
- William A. Darity Jr. and John Schmitt: Equitable Growth in Conversation: “A new graduate student really has to make a very careful choice about which department to go to, and once there, who they should work with in that department. I would say that’s the research that needs to be done carefully, rather than telling people they shouldn’t go into economics….” https://equitablegrowth.org/labor-markets/equitable-growth-in-conversation-an-interview-with-william-a-darity-jr-sandy-of-duke-university/
- Notes: Working, Earning, and Learning In the Age of Intelligent Machines http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/notes-working-earning-and-learning-in-the-age-of-intelligent-machines.html
- Weekend Reading: Barry Eichengreen and Bradford DeLong (2012): New preface to Charles Kindleberger, “The World in Depression 1929-1939” http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/weekend-reading-barry-eichengreen-and-bradford-delong-2012-new-preface-to-charles-kindleberger-the-world-in-depression.html