Institutions I

Readings due before class on Monday, March 5, 2018

Required

• 5.1–5.7 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 12 in Naked EconomicsCharles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, 2nd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010).
  
  
• Freakonomics Radio, “Earth 2.0: What Would Our Economy Look Like?,” April 12, 2017
• At least one of these episodes (both if you’re adventurous):
  • Planet Money, “The Dollar at the Center of the World,” episode 553, July 16, 2014
  • Planet Money, “Retraining Day,” episode 750, January 27, 2017