Econ 696
Syllabus
Malthusian model
Rentseeking
Guns, Germs...Institutions
Industrial revolution
Econometric inference
Trade without Law
Political losers
About the Penn World Tables
Mankiw, Romer & Weil
Sachs & Warner
Which variables really matter?
Background for DMW paper on credit field experiment
Bannerjee & Duflo, "Credit"
Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson
Writing Tips
Legal origins
Agriculture
Midterm paper assignment
Democracy: AJRY (2008)
Why No Industrial Revolution in Old China?
More on Old China: sericulture, Greif
More on Old China: Imperial state, law
New China
Final paper assignment
China reading
Agriculture in British Industrial revolution
reading