Hello Pen-L ers, After a glorious year as a Scholar-in-Residence, with forays in the Developing World, Europe and the Arctic, I must teach Full Time again in the US for a couple of semesters at a Jesuit University from the Social & Environmental Justice approach. I don't like to waste much time battling neoclassicals, I want them to learn the most effective analysis, history and theory. *Any free e-books?*
*MBA Macro:* I want a Political Economy & non-neoclassical Ecological Economic Crisis approach. The last I taught MBA Macro was in 2009 and I assigned Krugman Depression Economics, Galbraith, Crash of 29, and Goodwin Macro, with supplements of UNDP MDGs, Jeffrey Sachs and Ecological Economics articles. I used Goodwin, because most of our MBA students are adults very rusty or never had economics. I taught as if they were in a think tank, with each team taking up a historical example of economic crisis, and informing the group what lessons were to be had for the the 2008-09 Great Recession onset. Any video of film ideas? I've used interviews of Simon Johnson and William Black before from Bill Moyers. *Poverty & Inequality. What's new, what's better?* (advanced undergrads, Econ, cross listed with African, Latin American, Social Justice & Urban Studies) Most of my 2010 students found Wolff book textbook boring. In 2009 my students were disappointed with Unlevel Playing Fields. In 2009 my student reviews asked for more empirical skills, so I added the Handbook on Inequality to 2010. Unfortunatly, the Handbook works best with STATA, and we have SPSS, Gretl and R at my schoo. In 2010 I assigned: Wolff, Edward N., 2009, Poverty & Income Distribution, Wiley, and Wealth Inequality Reader (2009), Dollars & Sense; Alternative Texts to Wolff (or supplement): Handbook of Poverty & Inequality, 2009, World Bank or Albeda, Randy, et al., 2009, Unlevel Playing Fields, 3rd ed, Dollars & Sense. Alternative Texts to Wealth Inequality Reader: Real World Latin America, 2008, Dan Fireside, et al, Dollars & Sense.& NACLA or Real World Labor, Dollars & Sense. http://dollarsandsense.org/ Supplemental Texts (referred to in class, optional for more in-depth study with class project). Poverty, Aid & the Environment: End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs. Penguin. Poverty Experts & Case Studies: Why Global Poverty? Think Again. A Companion Guide to the Film "The End of Poverty?" 2009, Clifford W. Cobb and Philippe Diaz, published by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation http://www.theendofpoverty.com/companion_book.html *Statistics (Fall-Spring) & Econometrics (Spring).* Most of my Statistics students are from the business school. I teach with a practical hands on empirical approach with software day one. We have SPSS, Gretl and R. (I like STATA best, but its not on the lab computers.)I have yet to find a good affordable book. I've been using Burns, R.B. & Burns, R.A. (2008/9) Business Research Methods and Statistics Using SPSS, SagePub.com I like Stock & Watson best for Econometrics, but would like other recommendations. While we are at it, in the Spring I will likely teach *Economic Development*. I like Chang, Rethinking Development, but its getting a bit dated. I supplement with Ecological Economics. I don't like any textbooks for this course. They are advanced undergrad Econ, cross listed with African, Latin American, Social Justice & Urban Studies.
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