Firms and markets II

Readings due before class on Monday, February 26, 2018

Required

• 8.7–8.11 in The EconomyThe CORE Team, The Economy: Economics for a Changing World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), http://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/.
  
  
• “Continued Existence Of Edible Arrangements Disproves Central Tenets Of Capitalism,”, The Onion, March 31, 2011
• “Is Santa a Deadweight Loss?,” The Economist, December 20, 2001
• Planet Money, “Why Economists Hate Gifts,” December 23, 2011
• Maurice E. Stucke, “Is Competition Always Good?,” March 25, 2013
• At least one of these episodes (both if you’re adventurous):
  • Planet Money, “The Tale Of The Onion King,” episode 657, October 14, 2015
  • Planet Money, “Mavericks, Monopolies And Beer,” episode 438, February 23, 2013