Readings List
Spring 2008 ECN 111B
Economic History

• Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Third Edition, New York:  Harper & Row, pp. 61-86.Stanley.

• Shiller, Brad, The Inequality Myth, WSJ, March 10, 2008.
  

• Lebergott, Wealth and Want, New Jersey:  Princeton University Press, 1975, pp. 88-107.

• Jeremy Atack and Peter Passell, A New Economic View of American History (1994), Ch. 14 on The South after the Civil War, pp. 376-401.

• Gavin Wright, Old South, New South (1986), Ch. 8 on the new economy of the postwar South, pp. 239-274, notes on 299-303.

• Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch. “Historical Background to Current Immigration Issues”, in James P. Smith and Barry Edmondston (eds.), The Immigration Debate, 1998.

• Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode, “The Transformation of Northern Agriculture 1910-1990,” in Stanley Engerman and Robert Gallman (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III, The Twentieth Century, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 693-742.

• Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode, “The Red Queen and the Hard Reds:  Productivity Growth in American Wheat, 1800-1940,” The Journal of Economic History 62:4.

• Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, “The Tuberculous Cattle Trust’: Disease Contagion in an Era of Regulatory Uncertainty,” Journal of Economic History, vol. 64 (December 2005), 929-63.

• J. Bradford DeLong and Barry Eichengreen, “The Marshall Plan:  History’s Most Successful Structural Adjustment Program,” in Rudiger Dornbusch et al., Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East Today, Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press, 1993, pp. 189-230.