Humberto Barreto

History of Economic Thought

Welcome to my course.

Here are the handouts I will use in class, readings I assign, and links to audio and video that I use.

History of Economics websites and my book on the entrepreneur are at the bottom.

I will update this page as we work our way through the class.

Any Reading, Audio, or Video that has a Perusall link means that it is to be done on the Perusall site.

Last Update: 10 May 2023 -- FINAL!

Chapter	Sections	In Class Files	Reading	Audio	Video
Introduction		Syllabus and Econ chart Introduction GGSVideoHandout			Guns, Germs, and Steel--Conquest Transcript
Pre-Smithian Economics	Scholastics, Mercantilists, Physiocrats	Pre-SmithianEconomics	Landes Perusall	OneTinSoldier.mp3 (Lyrics)
	Economic Revolution	MarketSystem?	WP, Ch 1 + 2 Perusall mp3 below	Planet Money: First Short	Ascent of Money: Stock Market pw HistEcon
	Intro	SmithOutline	WP, Ch 3.Smith mp3 below Perusall	RobertsTMSvWN
	Theory of Growth		SmithWN (Intro and Ch1,2,3) Assignment	Freakonomics: In Search of the Real Adam Smith
	Invisible Hand	permit.xls	Blinder Perusall		The Invisible Hand and the Market System Perusall
			Signaling Perusall
Smith Paper Due at 1:40pm on Feb 20 Paper AssignmentS23	Education		SmithEducYouth Rosen West		Friedman: Free to Choose Perusall Transcript
	Conclusion	SmithSummary		Monotonous Job	LATimes
Chapter	Main Headings	In Class Files	Reading	Audio	Video
Ricardo	Intro	RicardoOutline EnglishPop.xls	WP, Ch 4.Ricardo Perusall RicardoWPNote
	Ricardian Rent	RRTGraphs	BarretoRRT tiny.cc/boothrental	IllegalHair	Jeopardy!
	Unemployment	Getting Ricardo	OnMachinery Perusall		March of the Machines pw is HistEcon
	Conclusion	Blaug on Ricardo
Chapter	Main Headings	In Class Files	Reading	Audio	Video
Marx	Intro	MarxOutline	WP, Ch 6.Marx Perusall	Imagine
		Heilbroner on Marx	BookReview British Museum	Dawkins
	Historical Environment	Rosenberg	Bettman Reading (HW for March 3) Bettman Archive	GhostMapTranscript GhostMapAudio
	Capital	Capital Snippets	WorkingDay Reading Working Day Questions	Marx CapitalAudio	Marx Documentary pw is HistEcon Marx Documentary audio
		Engels' Pause	Piketty Perusall
	Marxism		FriedmanWorldIsFlat BennettUnderpants		Kist Mentality
	Socialist Calculation Debate		Red Plenty		SocCalcThreeVideos
	Conclusion	Conclusion
Chapter	Main Headings	In Class Files	Reading	Audio	Video
Marginal Revolution	The Birth of Modern Economics	Neoclassical	WP, Ch 7.VictorianWorld Perusall
	Veblen		WP, Ch 8, Veblen Perusall VeblenHW
Chapter	Main Headings	In Class Files	Reading	Audio	Video
Keynes	Intro	KeynesOutline GreatDepFRED.xls GDP.xls (HW due Friday)	WP, Ch 9.Keynes Perusall		Keynes Early Bio (3 min) Hitler 1932 (1 min)
	Unemployment		KeynesGTCh1&2 (0ptional reading)		Keynes Full Bio (Blaug) pw = HistEcon
Keynes Paper Draft: Apr 7, 1:30PM Final: Apr 12, 1:30PM PaperAssignmentS23	Inequality	Capital.xlsm (will be presented in class)	SecondMachineAge (due Apr 3) Skidelsky Piketty Plotnick, et al.	Planet Money: Socialism 101(March 26, 2021, 23 min)	Inequality and the Market System Perusall
	The Future of Capitalism		KeynesGTCh24 KeynesEconPoss
	Other Sources		Biz Incomes Growing Inc Ineq Rise of Ineq		Capital Documentary
	Peer Review				No One Writes Alone
	Demography	PopPyr.xlsm
		Search for Keynes
Chapter	Main Headings	Handout	Reading	Audio	Video
Schumpeter	Intro	SchumpeterOutline	WP, Ch 10.Schumpy Perusall		Schumpeter Bio pw = HistEcon
	Mathematics of Growth		MaddisonData.xls Here's the Macro site, if you are curious: Macro with Excel
	KSD		GrowthExcel (in class) SchumpyKSD KSD Questions
	The Future of Capitalism	SchumpeterQuotes		Freakonomics Earth 2.0 (28:40, 12Apr2017)
Chapter	Main Headings	Handout	Reading	Audio
Knight	Intro	KnightOutline	BioReadings Perusall
	Externality	(handout is in KnightOutline above)		CoaseontheCoaseTheorem (Short Clip: 2.5 min) FullCoaseInterview (62 min)
	Risk v. Uncertainty		KnightKeynes Perusall
	Entrepreneurship		KnightRUP RUP Questions
Chapter	Main Headings	Handout	Reading	Audio	Video
Entrepreneurship	Intro	Overview LandesIntro			Entrepreneurship Perusall
	Economic Development	RMG Data	Easterly
	Social Entrepreneurship		de Soto MysteryK Perusall		Power of the Poor pw is HistEcon
Chapter	Main Headings	Handout	Reading	Audio	Video
Conclusion	20th Century History and Ideas				CommandingHeights Video pw is HistEcon CommandingHeights Questions
	The End of the Worldly Philosophy?		WP.Ch11.End? Perusall

Worldly Philosophers Audio

You can listen to the 6th edition (I don't know of any audio for the 7th edition) of Heilbroner. There were 9 CDs and I ripped them to mp3 files. They do not exactly match the chapters so you have to listen and match up the disk number to the book (or pdf reading from above). Hope this helps.

My Entrepreneurship Book

If you want to read more on entreprenurship in the history of economics, here is my book, The Entrepreneur in Microeconomic Theory: Disappearance and Explanation.

If you want a "real" paperback version, click here. If you are crazy enough to buy it, I'll happily autograph it for you.

History of Economics on the Web

History of Economic Thought: http://www.hetwebsite.net/het/ (biographies of economists and descriptions of schools of economic thought)

Economists' Portraits:http://hope.econ.duke.edu/media/economists-portraits (pictures of economists)

Library of Economics and Liberty: http://www.econlib.org/ (free books online)

Liberty Fund: http://www.libertyfund.org/ (really cheap classics)

McMaster Archive: http://historyofeconomicthought.mcmaster.ca/ (free works online from little known economists and philosophers)

History of Economics Society: http://www.historyofeconomics.org/ (academic organization for historians of economics)

I moderate the SHOE (Societies for the History of Economic Thought) email discussion list and you can look at the archives here:

https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/shoe.html

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