Scarcity and productivity I

Readings due before class on Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Required

• 3.1–3.5 in The EconomyThe CORE Team, The Economy: Economics for a Changing World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), http://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/.
  
  
• Chapter 6 in Naked EconomicsCharles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, 2nd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010).
  
  
• Charles Duhigg, “Warning: Habits May Be Good for You,” New York Times, July 13, 2008
• Randall Munroe, “Cost of Pennies”
• Randall Munroe, “Working”