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Here are links to the articles cited in the April 28 lecture:

Ibrahim Elbadawi, “Reviving Growth in the Arab World.”
Iikka Korhonen, “Does Democracy Cure a Resource Curse?”
Dani Rodik, "Where Did All the Growth Go? External Shocks, Social Conflict and Growth Collapses."
Marcus Noland, "Explaining Middle East Authoritarianism."

The link for the Berleman and Thum reading for April 2 is no longer active. Please use this link instead.

The link for the Lincoln reading on April 30 is no longer active. Please use this link instead.

Additional optional reading: "Secrets of the Wizard of Oz," BBC News, 17 March 2009.

"Lessons from the Great Depression for Economic Recovery in 2009," Remarks by Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, presented at the Brookings Institution, March 9, 2009

Additional optional reading for February 5: "The Wizard of Oz as a Monetary Allegory," Hugh Rockoff, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98, 1990, pp. 739-760

Please note that a revised syllabus was posted to this page on 1-14-09.

Econ 115, The World Economy in the Twentieth Century

Spring 2009

Lecture: TuTh 1230-2P , 390 Hearst Min
Instructor: Professor B. J. Eichengreen
Office: 603 Evans
E-mail: eichengr@econ.berkeley.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 2-4 pm
Please call or email Cheryl Applewood in advance for an appointment: 643-9044 / capple@econ.berkeley.edu

Class Information

Economics 115 is an upper division course for undergraduates. Advanced concepts, where used, are developed from first principles, although students who have taken Intermediate Macroeconomics and Microeconomics will find the material most accessible. Some knowledge of international economics is also helpful. Class meets three hours a week, section meets one hour a week.

Syllabus and Reading List

Course Readings

Readers are available from Copy Central on Hearst at Euclid by North Gate. Only items that cannot be downloaded from the web are included in the reader. A few items are not available in the reader or the web because permission to reprint or link was denied. Copies of these items are on reserve at Moffitt Library. The text for the course is Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, 2nd Edition (Princeton University Press, paperback, 2008), for sale at the ASUC store and your favorite on-line bookseller. The book and reader are also on reserve at Moffitt.