Readings:
Robert Brenner (1976): Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe http://www.jstor.org/stable/650345
Nathan Nunn (2008): The Long-Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/25098896.pdf
Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff (1994): Factor Endowments, Institutions and Differential Paths of Development among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States http://papers.nber.org/papers/h0066
Ralph Austen and Woodruff D. Smith (1992): Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The Slave-Sugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization http://tinyurl.com/dl20090122b
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848): Manifesto of the Communist Party http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman (2013): Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in Nineteenth Century Industrial Britain https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/aer.103.1.107
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Memo Question: What relevance and use does a work like Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848), "Manifesto of the Communist Party" have to twenty-first century economists today?
Warm-Up:
- Looking Back (5 min): Main lessons from last time
- Today (5 min): Interesting points from reaction essays
Core:
- (10 min) Overview
- (5 min) Issues and questions
- (12 min) Brenner:
- Why is this paper being written?
- What are the main arguments?
- What are the major pieces of evidence?
- Why won't those who think differently be convinced?
- Who is right?
- (12 min) Nunn:
- Why is this paper being written?
- What are the main arguments?
- What are the major pieces of evidence?
- Why won't those who think differently be convinced?
- Who is right?
- (12 min) Engerman and Sokoloff:
- Why is this paper being written?
- What are the main arguments?
- What are the major pieces of evidence?
- Why won't those who think differently be convinced?
- Who is right?
- (12 min) Austen and Smith:
- Why is this paper being written?
- What are the main arguments?
- What are the major pieces of evidence?
- Why won't those who think differently be convinced?
- Who is right?
- (12 min) Marx and Engels:
- Why is this paper being written?
- What are the main arguments?
- What are the major pieces of evidence?
- Why won't those who think differently be convinced?
- Who is right?
- (12 min) Naidu and Yuchtman:
- Why is this paper being written?
- What are the main arguments?
- What are the major pieces of evidence?
- Why won't those who think differently be convinced?
- Who is right?
Cool-Down:
- Looking Forward (5 min): Next time
- Looking Forward (5 min): Next reaction question