Barry Eichengreen (Evans 603, TBA, 2-0926, eichengr@econ.berkeley.edu)
Brad DeLong (Evans 601, Th 12:30-2:30, 3-4027, delong@econ.berkeley.edu)
October 22, 2003: Markets and Their Alternatives; the Ancient Economy (Reading Notes)
Robert M. Solow (1985), "Economic History and Economics," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 75 (May): 328-331.
M. I. Finley (1970), "Aristotle and Economic Analysis," Past and Present, No. 47. (May), pp. 3-25.
M. I. Finley (1965), "Technical Innovation and Economic Progress in the Ancient World," Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 18, No. 1, Essays in Economic History Presented to Professor M. M. Postan), pp. 29-45.
Peter Temin (2001), "A Market Economy in the Early Roman Empire"
J. Bradford DeLong (2003), "Thinking About Aristotle of Stagira and Moses Finley."
J. Bradford DeLong (1997), "The 'Embedded Economy' Thesis"
Michael Kremer (1993), "Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990," Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (August), pp. 681-716.
Avner Greif (1989), "Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders," Journal of Economic History 49:4 (December), pp. 857-882.Those who do not think that they have enough to do may also read:
Morris Silver (1983), "Karl Polanyi and Markets in the Ancient Near East: The Challenge of the Evidence," Journal of Economic History 43:4 (December), pp. 795-829.
October 29: Malthus and Surplus (Reading Notes)
Gregory Clark (1992), "The Economics of Exhaustion, the Postan Thesis, and the Agricultural Revolution," Journal of Economic History 52:1 (March), pp. 61-84.
David Weir (1984), "Life Under Pressure: France and England," Journal of Economic History 44 (March): 27-47.
Richard H. Steckel (2001), "Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe" (Cambridge: NBER Working Paper 8542).
Richard H. Steckel (1995), "Stature and the Standard of Living," Journal of Economic Literature 33:4 (December), pp. 1903-1940.
Alfred Conrad and John Meyer (1958), "The Economics of Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South," Journal of Political Economy 66:1 (1958), pp. 95-130.
Evsey Domar (1970), "The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis," Journal of Economic History, pp. 18-32.
Peter H. Lindert (1986), "Unequal English Wealth since 1670," The Journal of Political Economy 94:6 (December), pp. 1127-1162.
Joel Mokyr (1998), "Review of Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel" (Invisible College: EH.NET).
November 5: Institutions
Douglass North and Barry Weingast (1989), "Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England," Journal of Economic History 49 (December): 803-832.
J. Bradford DeLong and Andrei Shleifer (1993), "Princes and Merchants: City Growth Before the Industrial Revolution," Journal of Law and Economics 36:5 (October), pp. 671-702.
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson (2000), "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation" (Cambridge: NBER Working Paper No. w7771).
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson (2001), "Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution" (Cambridge: NBER Working Paper No. w8460).
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson (2002), "The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth" (Cambridge: NBER Working Paper No. w9378).
Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff (1994), "Factor Endowments, Institutions and Differential Paths of Development Among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States," (Cambridge: NBER Working Paper no. h0066.
November 12: Commerce
Jan de Vries (1994), "The Industrious Revolution and the Industrial Revolution," Journal of Economic History 54:2 (June), pp. 249-70.
Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson (2002), "From Malthus to Ohlin: Trade, Growth and Distribution Since 1500" (Cambridge: NBER Working Paper w8955, May).
Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson (2001), "After Columbus: Explaining the Global Trade Boom 1500-1800" (Cambridge: NBER Working Paper w8186, March).
Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson (2000), "When Did Globalization Begin?" (Cambridge: NBER Working Paper w7632, April).
W.M. Matthews (1968), "The Imperialism of Free Trade: Peru, 1820-1870," Economic History Review pp. 462-519.
November 19: The British Industrial Revolution
Joel Mokyr (1988), "Is There Still Life in the Pessimist Case? Consumption during the Industrial Revolution, 1790-1850," Journal of Economic History 48:1 (March), pp. 69-92.
Peter Temin (1997), "Two Views of the Industrial Revolution," Journal of Economic History 57:1 (March), pp. 63-82.
C. Knick Harley (1982), "British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution," Journal of Economic History 42:2 (June), pp. 267-289.
Gregory Clark (1994), "Factory Discipline," Journal of Economic History 54:1. (March), pp. 128-163.
David Landes (1986), "What Do Bosses Really Do?" Journal of Economic History 46:3 (September), pp. 585-623.
Jeffrey G. Williamson (1984), "Why Was British Growth So Slow During the Industrial Revolution?" Journal of Economic History 443. (September), pp. 687-712.
December 3: Industrialization and Its Consequences
George Boyer (1998), "The Historical Background of the Communist Manifesto," Journal of Economic Perspectives 12:4 (Autumn), pp. 151-174.
Nicholas Crafts (1998), "Forging Ahead and Falling behind: The Rise and Relative Decline of the First Industrial Nation," Journal of Economic Perspectives 12:2 (Spring), pp. 193-210.
C. Knick Harley (1988), "Ocean Freight Rates and Productivity, 1740-1913: The Primacy of Mechanical Invention Reaffirmed," Journal of Economic History 48:4 (December), pp. 851-876.
Nicholas Crafts (2002), "The Solow Productivity Paradox in Historical Perspective," (London: CEPR Discussion Paper no.3142).
December 10: Fortune's Favorites
Patrick O'Brien (1982), "European Economic Development: the Contribution of the Periphery," Economic History Review, 1-18.
Richard Easterlin (1981), "Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?" Journal of Economic History 41:1 (March), pp. 1-19.
Angus Maddison (1983), "A Comparison of Levels of GDP Per Capita in Developed and Developing Countries, 1700-1980," Journal of Economic History 43:1 (March), pp. 27-41.
Gavin Wright, "The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940," American Economic Review 80 (1990), pp.651-668.
Paul M. Romer (1996), "Why, Indeed in America?" American Economic Review (May)
Lant Pritchett (1997), "Divergence, Big Time," Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer), pp. 3-17.
December 12: Paper literature review and hypothesis statement due.
Closing in on a reading list...
Posted by: Brad DeLong on October 16, 2003 08:33 PMSounds quite interesting.
Maybe I'll go back to school.
Posted by: Jim Glass on October 20, 2003 01:35 PMEvery time you've posted a reading list in the past year or so, Berkeley's gone up in my grad school wishlist!
Posted by: M.E.G. on October 20, 2003 05:52 PMTest...
Posted by: Brad DeLong on November 5, 2003 11:29 AM