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Ph.d. Macro reading list
Here is my Ph.d. Macroeconomics reading list for the Fall semester. It is about 15 percent different from last year's list. Keep in mind that many topics are missing but of course there is a class Macro II in the spring.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on August 14, 2006 at 11:31 AM in Economics | Permalink
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What's the common theme? Null results. What causes business cycles? What is risk? I think philosophy has had more luck with the meaning of life.
Posted by: eric at Aug 14, 2006 4:14:02 PM
I think the common theme is either right wing economists or the minneapolis fed quarterly review.
Posted by: anon at Aug 14, 2006 6:15:58 PM
"I think the common theme is either right wing economists or the minneapolis fed quarterly review."
Why, yes! Because the one thing doctoral students in economics have time for is post-Keynesian nonsense and Marxian "economics".
Posted by: Arsene at Aug 14, 2006 8:16:21 PM
After reading "Econospinning" Id admonish the students to read DeLongs blog
at their own risk, not their own "discretion".
Seriously, Im rather surprised, though, students would be advised to read
a blog that betrays such blatant partisanship and shameless distortion.
Posted by: anne at Aug 14, 2006 8:24:57 PM
Looks good.
Are all of these on JSTOR? Or, will you put links to them on your website?
See you in a couple weeks Prof. Cowen.
-Scott Wentland
Posted by: Scott W at Aug 14, 2006 8:26:54 PM
The common theme for the new entries is "Greg Mankiw."
At least, that's what my from-memory comparison to last year says.
Posted by: Jason Briggeman at Aug 15, 2006 2:10:51 AM
If I were a teacher I would probably omit the recently popular Mankiw's piece on dynamic scoring. It's neither back-of-the-envelope nor it is any guide. The most serious objection, however, is that it focuses on long-term effects of tax cuts while neglecting important short term effects of tax cuts on tax compliance.
I have yet to find a good paper on tax compliance, by the way. Any advices?
Posted by: PK at Aug 15, 2006 3:54:42 AM
shurely the first Mankiw one is an NBER working paper now, not an unpublished manuscript?
Also in general ... I know this is a summer reading list, but these references really strike me as being pitched quite low in technical terms for a PhD program in macroeconomics, aren't they? Is this a reading list for people joining the PhD program from non-economics first degrees?
Posted by: dsquared at Aug 15, 2006 7:03:36 AM
Davis and Henrekson have a nic epaper on the effects of taxes on tax compliance -- "tax effects on work activity, industry mix, and shadow economy size: evidence from rich country comparisons" -- it's an NBER working paper.
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