For what its worth here are a couple of suggestions relating to
Blair's question.
I too find that students are confused by critiquing the text. It
raises the very reasonable question as to why it is assigned in the
first place. Solution: assign the text as representative of one
paradigm in
Mike M. posts on the topic of the views of the right wing have been
food for thought. Francis "the end of history" Fukiyama was recently
interviewed on the BBC pedalling essentially the same line as Olasky.
It seems to me there currently exists two partially incompatible
right wing
While we're talking about books, I have a request also. In my senior
seminar, the students are interested in reading a paperback in the area of
urban economics and/or environmental economics. These should NOT be text
but they should not be graduate level monographs. I need something that a
Dear Penners:
I find Terry's historical approach VERY VALUABLE. I use it too. One final
suggestion -- if you can successfully squeeze in the THEORY of
macroeconomics into the first 10 weeks of the semester, I like the end with
three-four weeks of a LABORATORY story -- Using the last 20-25
I don't know how economics courses are taught these days, but one method
of teaching some of use, I notice especially in the labor field, is
problems and simulations. The students get into the role play and seem
to learn their labor law much better than a more traditional walk
through,
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Subject:[PEN-L:2729] intermediate macro
Okay folks, I'm teaching intermediate macro at a small college with
students who are mostly business school
Terry says that the left has had problems addressing family values. He is
correct only in so far as our analysis has not been heard. Terry, as well
as anybody else on this list, knows what low wages and unemployment do to
families.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State
Back in the days when I taught macro (intro generally), I had a lab component
to the course every week through the semester. The students had a database of
the last 30 or so years of US history -- about 70 variables. Through simple
spreadsheet manipulations, they "tested" the various
Communitas by Paul and Percival Goodman
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Subject: [PEN-L:2741] Re: Urban economics texts?
Date: Monday, February 05, 1996 5:36AM
While we're talking about books, I have a request also. In my senior
seminar, the students are interested in reading a paperback in the area
From: "William S. Brown (907) 465-6423/789-2448"
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Subject: Israeli/Palestinian economics
... stripped of the religious dimension, what are the economic issues
behind the war.
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Sorry I have no written references to offer. This sounds a
fascinating and most appropriate
It's also out of date (1978), but there is
William K. Tabb and Larry Sawers, eds.
_Marxism and the Metropolis_, Oxford U. Press.
More recent, but probably only useful as a supplementary
especially in response to the now widely touted arguments
of Joel Garreau in his _Edge Cities_ is
At 5:35 AM 2/5/96, Mike Meeropol wrote:
While we're talking about books, I have a request also. In my senior
seminar, the students are interested in reading a paperback in the area of
urban economics and/or environmental economics. These should NOT be text
but they should not be graduate level
With the subject of textbooks on at pen-l, I have a weird request. I am
looking for a Microeconomics textbook that is easy to read and explains
the neoclassical approach rather well, including the math part. In other
words the best book that the (perfect) market has to offer wrt neoclassical
Hello, Pen-lers!
I am trying to obtain two series of statistics for Mexico for the years
1910-1965. The first measure is real GDP growth per capita and the
second is real GDP per capita. Can anyone suggest a possible source for
these figures?
Steven Zahniser
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Subject: Re: manufacturing vs. services
On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, dilek cetindamar karaomerlioglu wrote:
I really don't understand how to draw a line between services and
manufacturing and how it is used as if they are rival developments
in an economy.
I would start by asking what is the point of
MOSCOW HOMELESS RAVAGED BY COLD, HIGH ALCOHOL USE
MOSCOW -- A grim new barometer of freedom has come into
existence in the Russian capital this winter -- a daily
count of homeless drunks found dead from the cold.
At least 320 Muscovites have frozen to death on
the capital's mean streets
Re Hall and Taylor's Macro text. For what it is worth, they are closer
to New Keynesians than New Classicals. They don't argue that markets
clear all the time.
Chris Niggle
University of Redlands
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Subject: roma and sinti
I urgently need to know how you say "Roma" and "Sinti" in English!
Those are names of two "branches" of European gypsies, both of which
were persecuted by the Nazis. The "Roma" live in Austria, I think
the "Sinti" people might be
Lisa Rogers wrote:
'Services' are consumed and that is the end, just as with consumable
commodities such as food itself. As wealth / pleasure are measured
in part by quantity / quality / variety of consumption, as everybody
needs / wants to consume some stuff, then production for
The last mail I had from Phil (January 30, 1996) was
[EMAIL PROTECTED]. I think this is the same
address that Steve posted.
Paul Phillips
The source for Mexican GDP per capita (current and real) is Estadisticas
Historicas de Mexico, edited by Instituto Nacional de Geografia e
Informatica, Insurgentes Sur 795, Col. Napoles, Mexico 03810, D.F. Phone.
(525)6874691 and 6872911. Such publication is in CD now. If you require
only GDP
I would give a strong endorsement to THE GREEN ECONOMY as well. (I've already
plugged Goodstein's excellent text as well. Check out the chapter on clean
technology!)
Peter Dorman
Is this an intro text or an intermediate text? I used to use Colander's
intermediate, which I thought was out of print.
Thanks,
Barnet Wagman
Economics
U. of Northern B.C.
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On Mon, 5 Feb 1996, James Michael Craven wrote:
Note:
Take a look at Colander's Economics 2nd Ed.
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