Institutions, power, and inequality

Readings due before class on Thursday, October 24, 2019

Required

Important: The PDFs of the North and Putnam chapters are posted on iCollege.

• Introduction and 5.1–5.10 in Economy, Society, and Public PolicyThe CORE Team, Economy, Society, and Public Policy, 2019, https://www.core-econ.org/espp/.
  
  
• Tweet by Jennifer Victor
• Freakonomics Radio, “Earth 2.0: What Would Our Economy Look Like?,” April 12, 2017
• At least one of these episodes (both if you’re adventurous):
  • Planet Money, “The Dollar at the Center of the World,” episode 553, July 16, 2014
  • Planet Money, “Retraining Day,” episode 750, January 27, 2017
• Chapter 1 in Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic PerformanceDouglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
  
  (Remember to use your grad school reading skills here! Don’t try to read every word! Skim to understand the argument.)
• Chapter 6 in Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern ItalyRobert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi, and Raffaella Y. Nanetti, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
  
  (Remember to use your grad school reading skills here! Don’t try to read every word! Skim to understand the argument.)