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(pdf) (tex) Past final exams - Thanks Anthony, Simone, Monica, and Marti!
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(pdf) History paper - Without Consent but With Contract: Incentives, Monitoring, and Manumission in Louisiana, 1719-1820
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Readings
The links to these readings
will be removed at the end of the IAP (or sooner upon request by any of
the authors, publishers, or anyone else with legal power). They are
intended for academic use related to the Fall semester course 14.731, and
are aimed at reducing library/search time for its students. In order
to obtain access, please send me an e-mail at mlp at mit dot edu.
September 7th (Lecture 1) -
The
Economy of the Early Roman Empire (Temin)
September 12th (Lecture 2) -
The
Industrial Revolution (Ashton) - Not available
September 14th (Lecture 3) -
The Great
Divergence in European Wages... (Allen)
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement (Grief, Milgrom, Weingast)
September 19th (Lecture 4) -
Guns,
Germs, and Steel, ch. 18 (Diamond) - Link to course website
The
Colonial Origins of Comparative Development (Acemoglu, Johnson,
Robinson)
September 21st (Lecture 5) -
The World
We Have Lost, chs. 4-5 (Laslett) - Link to course website
An
Historical Perspective on Economic Aspects... (Lee) - Link to course website
The Life
Table and its Construction (Chiang) - Link to course website
September 26th (Lecture 6) -
Malthus
Was Right After All (Boyer)
Some
Dimensions of the 'Quality of Life' During the British Industrial Revolution
(Crafts)
A Theory
of Technophysio Evolution... (Fogel, Costa)
September 28th (Lecture 7) -
Constitutions and Commitment (North, Weingast)
Networks
of Information, Markets, and Institutions... (Neal, Quinn)
Rediscovering Risk (Brunt)
October 3rd (Lecture 8) -
The
British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (Allen)
Credit
Rationing and Crowding Out During the Industrial Revolution (Temin, Voth)
Time and
Work in Eighteenth-Century London (Voth)
October 5th (Lecture 9) -
Economic
Backwardness in Historical Perspective, ch. 1 (Gerschenkron) - Link to course website
How Do
Patent Laws Influence Innovation (Moser)
The
European Grain Invasion, 1870-1913 (O'Rourke)
October 12th (Lecture 10) -
Economic
Crises and the European Revolutions of 1848 (Berger, Spoerer)
Making
Democracy Work, ch. 5 (Putnam) - Link to course website
Monetary
Union, Institutions, and Financial Market Integration (Toniolo, Conte,
Vecchi)
October 17th (Lecture 11) -
Factor
Endowments, Institutions, and Differential Paths... (Engerman, Sokoloff)
- Link to course website
Exports
and Inequality (Frank)
Mexico
Before 1982 (Haber) - Not yet available
October 19th (Lecture 12) -
Education
in Africa (Gallego) - Not yet available
An
Economic History of South Africa, chs. 3-4 (Feinstein) - Link to course website
October 24th (Lecture 13) -
Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East, 1820-1950 (Pamuk)
Farm to
Factory, chs. 1-2 (Allen) - Link to course website
The
Macroeconomics of NEP (Johnson, Temin)
October 26th (Lecture 14) -
The Early
Modern Great Divergence (Broadberry, Gupta)
The Opium
Wars, Opium Legislation, and... (Feige, Miron)
Economic
Change in China, c. 1800-1950, chs. 2, 4, 7 (Richardson) - Link to course website
October 31st (Lecture 15) -
The
Japanese Economy, ch. 2 (Flath) - Link to course website
An
Empirical Assessment of the Comparative Advantage... (Bernhofen, Brown)
November 2nd (Lecture 16) -
The
Aftermath of Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" (Irwin)
Women,
Children, and Industrialization in the Early Republic (Goldin, Sokoloff)
Is
Deposit Insurance Necessary? (Calomiris)
November 7th (Lecture 17) -
Without
Consent or Contract, ch. 3 (Fogel) - Link to course website
A
Peculiar Population (Steckel)
November 9th (Lecture 18) -
Paternalism in Agricultural Labor Contracts... (Alston, Ferrie)
Slavery
and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital (Sacerdote)
Determining the Impact of Federal Antidiscrimination Policy... (Heckman)
November 14th (Lecture 19) -
Understanding the Gender Gap, chs. 4-5 (Goldin) - Link to course website
Pensions
and Retirement (Costa)
November 16th (Lecture 20) -
Scale and
Scope, ch. 2 (Chandler) - Link to course website
Monopolization by "Raising Rivals' Costs" (Granitz, Klein)
November 21st (Lecture 21) -
Lessons
from the Great Depression, chs. 1-2 (Temin) - Not available
Nonmonetary Effects of the Financial Crisis... (Bernanke)
The
Macroeconomics of the Great Depression (Bernanke)
November 28th (Lecture 22) -
Lessons
from the Great Depression, ch 3 (Temin) - Not available
The Great
Depression as a Watershed (Obstfeld, Taylor) - Link to course website
Interpreting the "One Big Wave" in U.S. Long-Term... (Gordon) - Link to course website
November 30th (Lecture 23) -
Cowards
and Heroes (Costa, Kahn) - Not yet available
How Much
Did the Liberty Ship Builders Learn (Thompson)
December 5th (Lecture 24) -
New
Estimates of Prewar Gross National Product and Unemployment (Romer)
Estimating Real Income in the United States from 1888-1994 (Costa)
December 7th (Lecture 25) -
The Great
Compression (Goldin, Margo)
Decreasing (and then Increasing) Inequality in America (Goldin, Katz) - Link to course website
The Wage
and Length of the Work Day (Costa)
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