MONEY+ILLUSIONS




 * READINGS: **
 * Paul Krugman & Robin Wells, Macroeconomics, [|Chapter 13: Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve System] **
 * *Gregory Clark "[|Introduction: The Sixteen-page Economic History of the World]" from Farewell to Alms. **
 * *Paul Krugman [|Babysitting the Economy] **
 * Paul Krugman [|Latin America's Swan Song] **
 * Steve Randy Waldma**n [|What is a Bank Loan?]


 * Colloquy on Money: **
 * *Brad DeLong Is Macroeconomics Hard? **
 * *Brad DeLong [|A Time to Spend] **
 * Brad DeLong [|Depression Economics in a Nutshell] **
 * Nick Rowe [|If Cows Were Money . . .] **
 * Nick Rowe [|Unobtanium and Walras' Law] **
 * Arnold Kling [|A Rant against Monetarism] **


 * Ernest Gellner Nations and Nationalism on [|agricultural]and[| industrial]society **


 * *Matt Ridley [|Ideas Having Sex] **
 * Review of Kenneth Pomeranz's __The Great Divergence__ "[|Coal, Colonies, and the Rise of the West]" **
 * Wikipedia article on the [|Great Divergence] **
 * *Nick Szabo's explanation of the [|Kula Ring] **
 * Sparknotes [|summary of Chapter 4] of Karl Marx's Das Kapital on money (CMC v. MCM) **
 * Review of Karl Polanyi's [|//The Great Transformation//](Fictitious Commodities) at EH.net. **

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