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.
Ph.d. Macro reading list
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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.
“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”.
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
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?
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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