Firms and markets I

Readings due before class on Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Required

• 8.1–8.6 in The EconomyThe CORE Team, The Economy: Economics for a Changing World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), http://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/.
  
  
• Play at least 15 minutes of “Universal Paperclips”WARNING: This game can take over your life for the next day or so, which can be really fun and rewarding, but also it will seriously for real consume every waking moment for a few hours. This is your official warning.
  
  
• Michael Eisen, “Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies,” April 22, 2011
• José-Daniel Reyes, “Quinoa: The Little Cereal That Could,” March 19, 2013
• Jeremy Cherfas, “Your Quinoa Habit Really Did Help Peru’s Poor. But There’s Trouble Ahead,”, March 31, 2016