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November 08, 2007

Second Paper: Looking Forward to Your Concentration

Due 5 PM December 4.

Do either (1) or (2):

Pick an issue in contemporary political economy connected with your four-course Political Economy concentration-to-be. Briefly!--in 1400-2000 words--use what you have learned in your historical context courses and in Political Economy 100 and 101 to set out an analytic framework for analyzing that issue.
The reading list for this course has set out a bunch of intellectual "cage matches"--occasions where two smart people assigned disagree about the fundamentals of some issue. Some examples: Hobson v. Schumpeter, Keynes v. Friedman, Fallows v. Scott, Stiglitz v. Keynes, Anderson v. Polanyi, Keynes v. Orwell. Pick an issue, two thinkers assigned in this course who have different views on it, and briefly!--1400 to 2000 worth--referee their cage match: who wins? and why?

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The Eighteen-Year-Old is going to college, which means that I need to think about making more money. (The idea that one might write checks to rather than receive checks from universities still seems very strange to me.) So I have signed up with the Leigh Speakers' Bureau which also handles, among many others: Chris Anderson; Suzanne Berger; Michael Boskin; Kenneth Courtis; Clive Crook; Bill Emmott; Robert H. Frank; William Goetzmann; Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin; Paul Krugman; Bill McKibben; Paul Romer; Jeffrey Sachs; Robert Shiller;James Surowiecki; Martin Wolf; Adrian Wooldridge.
J. Bradford DeLong is a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, chair of its political economy major, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and was in the Clinton administration a deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. His best work extends from business cycle dynamics through economic growth, behavioral finance, political economy, economic history, international finance to the history of economic thought and other topics.
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