Barry Eichengreen (Evans 603, W 2-4, 2-0926, eichengr@econ.berkeley.edu)
Brad DeLong (Evans 601, T 9-11, W 3+, 3-4027, delong@econ.berkeley.edu)
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004-2_archives/000380.html
Requirements Paper Guidelines
October 20-27, 2004: Markets and Their Alternatives; the Ancient Economy
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.
November 3: Malthus and Surplus
Gregory Clark (1992), "The Economics of Exhaustion, the Postan Thesis, and the Agricultural Revolution," Journal of Economic History 52:1 (March), pp. 61-84.
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" (EH.NET).
Thomas R. Malthus (1795), "An Essay on the Principle of Population" Book 3.
November 10: 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).
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.
Adam Smith (1776), The Wealth of Nations, Book V.
November 17: 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).
December 1: 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.
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 8: 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).
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848), "The Communist Manifesto."
December 15[?]: Fortune's Favorites
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.
December 10: Paper: literature review and hypothesis statement due.
Posted by DeLong at October 20, 2004 08:20 AM | TrackBackJust curious: is the Patrick O'Brien listed in the Fortune's Favorites section also the author of the Aubrey/Maturin novels?
Posted by: Charles Kinbote at October 13, 2004 02:20 PMA work of art.
Thanks Brad. I only wish you put this up before my exams!
Posted by: restlessgeist at October 13, 2004 03:29 PM"Any chance of a series of live web broadcasts? No?"
(Sighs, despairing).
no wonder education in the land of Yanks is declining when they only have to read this much!!!
Posted by: Homer Paxton at October 13, 2004 05:48 PMI know it isn't meant for the likes of me, but Jstor, Jstor, Jstor is really frustrating. Any other sources?
Posted by: kharris at October 14, 2004 06:56 AMBrad:
Thanks for posting this. I'm an inverterate reader of other people's syllabi, especially when it's something I know, like, nothing about. This list has the useful plus of being mostly articles too. I might actually be able to finish it.
Posted by: Tracy Lightcap at October 14, 2004 07:20 AMIf you wanted to really educate your students, you'd assign Henry George's _Progress and Poverty_.
Sigh. We don't have economic history down here at UCSD. At least not in the econ grad program.
Posted by: Chris at October 14, 2004 11:31 AMWow, with links and everything. Thank you for posting this! Instructive and helpful for know-nothings like me.
Posted by: blahgstein at October 16, 2004 07:53 AMGreat, interesting looking class, and I echo the appreciation for links, super helpful...oh but couldn't all classes be this straightforward....
Posted by: Jen at October 20, 2004 03:40 PMRoman auctions:
http://www.agorics.com/Library/Auctions/auction9.html
Posted by: Kosh at October 20, 2004 04:42 PMkharris:
If you don't have JStor access, you pretty much have to go to the library of your local college/university. These journals should be held by most academic libraries...
Posted by: Bob Violence at October 21, 2004 10:01 AMAh. I may have found the article I should have assigned for today's economic history class:
Mark Elvin (1984), "Why China Failed to Create an Endogenous Industrial Capitalism: A Critique of Max Weber's Explanation," Theory and Society 13:3 (May), pp. 379-91.
On the other hand, I may not. Elvin's article more-or-less requires that one have recently read (and remember) Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
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instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at
a hundred miles an hour ... booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at
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