October 07, 2002
2002-10-07: Notes: IASTP Chairs Meeting/Robinson Seminar

2002-10-07: Notes: IASTP Chairs Meeting/Robinson Seminar

Allow use of extension courses for GPA? Allow online courses for major?

Concurrent enrollment extension yes. Other extension no.

102, 195--what to do. Totally intractable problem.

Steve Weber Open Source Book:

Economics 236 Syllabus:

1. Models
2. Effects of Monetary Policy
3. Central Banking -- Taylor Rules, Inflation Targeting, Greenspan in the Nineties
4. European Unemployment -- Blanchard
5. Bubbles

Jim Robinson (Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson), "A Reversal of Fortune: Institutional Roots of Prosperity"

--Unequal World
--Proximate vs. Fundamental Explanations
--Geography: Montesquiou, Machiavelli, Marshall. Diamond, Sachs.
--Culture: Weber. Landes, Huntington.
--Institutions: Locke, Smith. Olson, North.
--Institutions: organization of society, rules of the game, shaping incentives.
--Deal with interactions later. Do first-order effects now.

--Correlation Between Latitude and Prosperity (today, not 500 years ago).

--Malaria (criticisms)

--Religion

--Institutions: protection against expropriation.

--Reverse Causality

--South Korea vs. North Korea: 16 times in 2000.

--Political Institutions, Economic Institutions, Informal Institutions.

--Interaction of Institutions and Industrialization Opportunities During the Nineteenth Century

--Colonies of Settlement and Colonies of Plunder: Why did European colonialists set up better institutions in settler colonies.

Miguel, Gertler, and Levine.

Easterly vs. Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson.

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