Remember, there are still people starving as we speak.
Submissions
- 361 Midterm - Tit-for-Tat, Footbinding.pdf
- 361 Final - Game Theory, Financial Markets, Distributive Justice.pdf
Applying Game Theory
- Robert Axelrod - The Evolution of Cooperation
- Robert Frank - Passions within Reason
- J.L. Mackie - Ending Foot Binding and Infibulation: A Conventional Account
- Friedrich Hayek - The Social Uses of Information
- Michael Rosenberg - Pure Theory of Labor Market Monopsony
- Milton Friedman - Externality
- Writing Assignments
Market Failures
- Jonathan Anomaly - Public Goods and Government Action
- Jean Hampton - Free Rider Problems in the Production of Collective Goods
- Elinor Ostrom - Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms
- Robert Frank - Darwinian Economy, Chapters 1-3
- Writing Assignments
Measuring Amount of Market Failure
- Michael Munger and Mario Villarreal-Diaz - The Road to Crony Capitalism, Independent Review
- Joseph Stiglitz - The Price of Inequality, Chapter 2: Rent Seeking and Chapter 3
- Thomas Picketty
- Robert D. Kirkby - Summary of Picketty
- Picketty Explained Blog - Summary of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Writing Assignments
Solutions to Market Failure
- Amartya Sen - Equality of What?
- John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism, Chapter 1, Chapter 2 (pp. 4-11), Chapters 3, 4
- John Rawls - A Theory of Justice
- Robert Nozick - Anarchy, State, and Utopia
- Derek Parfit - Equality and Priority
- Writing Assignment