Course Materials
Syllabus
Homework Assignments
Old Exams
Interesting Links
The Economist (British, moderate, good worldwide coverage)
The New York Times (Especially the Economic Scene column every Thursday in the Business section)
The Brookings Institution (Thoughtful moderate economic commentary)
The American Enterprise Institute (Thoughtful conservative economic commentary)
The Economic Policy Institute (Thoughtful liberal economic commentary)
The Economists' Voice (Serious articles by well-known economists)
Economics Letter from the San Francisco Fed (Short research-based articles on macro topics)
Greg Mankiw's Blog (Well respected moderately conservative macroeconomist at Harvard)
Brad DeLong's Blog (Well respected moderately liberal macroeconomist at Berkeley)
Environmental Economics Blog (Specializing in natural resources and environmental issues)
US Government Economic Statistics (All the recent numbers on GDP, unemployment, inflation, ...)
Board of Governors Federal Reserve System (All the money supply and interest rate data)
World Bank (International statistics and analysis)
Jokes about Economists (Ha ha ha)
Interesting Books
Diane Coyle, Sex, Drugs, and Economics: An Unconventional Introduction to Economics
Robert Frank, The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose
Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich are Rich, the Poor are Poor - and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers.
Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics
Steven Landsburg, The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Burton Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street
John McMillan, Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets
Richard Thaler, The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life
Charles Wheelen, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science