Mon Nov 21: U.S. Income Inequality I
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, "The Inheritance of Inequality" http://www.umass.edu/preferen/gintis/intergen.pdf.
Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty (2004), "Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998," Quarterly Journal of Economics http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/saez/pikettyqje.pdf.
Mon Nov 28: U.S. Income Inequality II
Wed Nov 30: The East Asian Miracles
Dani Rodrik (1995), "Getting Interventions Right: How South Korea and Taiwan Grew Rich" http://www.nber.org/papers/W4964.
Fri Dec 2: The Rise of China
OECD (2005), Economic Survey of China 2005 http://www.oecd.org/document/21/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35331797_1_1_1_1,00.html (read executive summaries of chapters only).
Mon Dec 5: The Rise [?] of India
Dani Rodrik and Arvind Subramanian(2004), "From Hindu Growth to Productivity Surge: The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition" http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~drodrik/IndiapaperdraftMarch2.pdf.
Wed Dec 7: Review
Tue Dec 13, 8-11 AM, 180 Tan: Final Exam
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