All Readings

All Readings

MICROECONOMICS

The Pricing of Computer Chips by Intel

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

Nurse Shortage Blamed on Economics (AP, 2/14/99)

BRANDING, ECONOMIES OF SCOPE

H-P to Create Subsidiary to Sell Cheap Brand of Ink-Jet Printers (WSJ, 1/6/99)
Coca-Cola to launch a range of clothing (WSJ, 1/21/99)
Intel to Keep 'Pentium' Name For Its Next-Generation Chip (WSJ, 1/8/99)
A case of diseconomies of scope? Hershey plans to sell pasta brands (WSJ, 11/10/98)
Coke plans to sell plain water (WSJ, 11/3/98)
Does Starbuck have economies of scope? (WSJ 3/16/99)

DISCRIMINATION

Technology facilitates price discrimination (Forbes, November 2, 1998)
Techies in Asia frustrate plans by DVD makers to divide world (WSJ, 3/16/99)
Discriminating cleaners (Slate, July 1998)
Indiscriminate pricing (from The Economist)
When discrimination is illegal: an interesting consequence regarding credit cards (WSJ, 11/10/98)

STRATEGIES TOWARD RIVALS

Market entry strategies: Pioneers versus late arrivals (from Strategy and Business) [PDF]
Toy's R Us anticompetitive measures (October 1998)
Price-fixing: Shoe Stores Battle Nine West over Pricing System (NYT, 1/13/99)
Pepsico Accuses Coca-Cola of Unfair Business Practices in Lawsuit (NYT, 5/8/98)
Compaq to sell its PCs directly (WSJ, November 11, 1998)
U.S. Sues to Bar Northwest Air From Key Stake in Continental (NYT, 10/24/98)
AOL-Netscape merger: Wall Street Journal
How the Antitrust Wars Wax and Wane (NYT, 4/11/98)
Many Industries are Congealing into Lineup of Few Dominant Giants (WSJ, 3/8/99)
Dell doesn't want to be the first-mover (WSJ, April 9, 1999)

BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE

Electronic Commerce Lifts Delivery Concerns' Volume (WSJ, 12/30/98)
Delivering the Internet Goods: FedEx Profit Surge Shows How Shipping Firms Are Benefiting (WP, 3/19/99)
Auto Makers Beat Glut With Extras, Innovations (WSJ, 1/8/99)
Computer and Economic Growth (NYT, 4/14/99)

PERSONNEL ECONOMICS

Stock options as executive pay
Stock pricing and workers retention (WSJ, 11/3/98)
Wal-mart sues Amazon.com for trying to steal its people (October 1998)

PERSONALITIES

A Real-World Economist: Krueger and Empiricists Challenge Theorists (NYT 4/20/99)
Who is Paul Krugman? (A critical article by Robert Kuttner in the American Prospect)
An interview with Paul Krugman (Strategy and Business, 4/98)
How Columbia University tried to recruit Robert Barro (NYT, 4/8/98)
Who is Joseph Stiglitz? (From the New York Times)
Shoeless Joe Stiglitz (The American Prospect July-August 1999)
Who is Stanley Fischer? (From the New York Times)
Who are Krugman, Sachs, Stiglitz? (From the Wall Street Journal)
The rivalry between Jeffrey Sachs and Larry Summers (From the Washington Post)
Something about Larry (WP 3/14/99)
Robert Rubin (by Jacob Weisberg in NYT Magazine 7/19/98)
An article on Rubin, Greenspan, and Summers (Time magazine 2/99)
On Scholes and Merton (1997 Nobelists)
More on Scholes and Merton (New York Times, November 14, 1998)
Who is Merton Miller (NYT, 2/21/99)
On Amartya Sen (1998 Nobelist)
Amartya Sen Wins Nobel Prize (NYT, LAT, WSJ clippings, press release)
Who is Robert Mundell (Nobel 1999)
Remembering Mahbub ul Haq (WP, 10/23/98)
On Alec Cairncross (The Economist)
On Doug Henwood (Salon 12/21/98)
On Robert Heilbroner (NYT, 1/23/99)
On Wassily Leontief (NYT obituary, 2/7/99)
On Veblen and the Theory of the Leisure Class
On Walter Salant (NYT obituary May 2, 99)--An influential Keynesian in the 1950's and 1960's
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and their Russian scandal (WSJ, 2/5/99)
Shleifer won Clark Medal (NYT, 4/26/99)
Interviews with Economists (in The Region, a publication of Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank)
Great Economists and Their Times (from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco site)
Portrait: John Rawls (The Prospect, June 1999)
Ronald Coase and Internet economics [NYT, 10/2000]

Economists as gurus
A Doctorate too Dry for Its Own Good? (NYT Apr 11, 99)
M.B.A. Boom Fades as Candidates Seek Instead the Rewards of the Internet (NYT, Nov 28, 99)
On economic jargon (The Economist, 1/23/99)
On economic forecasts: A Science Truly Dismal at Prediction (NYT 2/23/99)
News from the lab (The Economist May 1999)--

What makes economics less than a proper science, sceptics often argue, is that you cannot do controlled experiments. Many economists disagree

Companies Hire Fewer Economists (WSJ, 4/29/99)
Basics of hedge funds, including Krugman's article [from Slate magazine]

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MACROECONOMICS

Federal Reserve Purposes and Functions
Fundamental Facts about U.S. Money (FRB Atlanta)
Genuine or Counterfeit? (How to tell counterfeit currency)
Checkbooklet
U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction (document from San Francisco Fed)
US Monetary Policy and Financial Markets
Understanding Open Market Operations
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about U.S. Savings Bonds
What is a dollar worth?
Points of Interest (Answers such questions about interest rates as, "Why do interest rates increase or decrease?" and "Why are some rates higher than others?")
A critical review of Supply-Side Economics
A Better CPI (from San Francisco Fed)
On John Maynard Keynes (Time magazine 3/29/99)
The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes (entire book)

U.S. ECONOMY

Thinking Twice about Tax Breaks (NYT, 2/11/99)
Social Security: The Basics with a Tally Sheet (NYT, 1/28/99)
Getting Married Pays (WSJ, 2/12/99)
On school voucher.
Charter Schools Are Starting to Prod Public Schools Toward Competition (WSJ, 2/12/99)
Study Suggests Competition Benefits Religion (NYT, 6/6/98)
Carrying Economics into Religion (NYT, 1/30/99)

NEWS ARTICLES

The bankers' regime (By Robert Reich)
Economists simply shrug as savings rate declines (NYT, 12/21/98)
Why is Keynesianism Fading With So Much of the World in Recession? (WSJ, 2/5/99)

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

The Foreign Exchange Market in the United States (pamphlet written by the Fed)
Strong Dollar, Weak Dollar: Foreign Exchange Rates and the U.S. Economy
The Great Trade Debate: From Rhetoric to Reality (a summary of a conference on globalization and U.S. trade policy)
In the Wake of NAFTA, Family Firm Watches Its Business Head South (WSJ 2/23/99)
The U.N. Report on the Rich-Poor Gap in the World
Protecting the Losers in the Global Spread of Capitalism (NYT, 11/14/98)
Collapse of a World Safety Net (an op-ed article by Ethan Kapstein, LAT 1/30/99)
Bhagwati on international capital movement (WSJ, November 16, 1998)

IMF

Barry Eichengreen: Building a Consensus (Financial Times, 2/2/99)
Stanley Fischer: Reforming the International Monetary System (David Finch speech in Melbourne 11/9/98)

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