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Politics

• Matt Bai, "the inside educator," the New York Times October 1, 2006
• Kevin Baker, "stabbed in the back! the past and future of a right wing myth," Harpers June 2006
• Peter Beinart, "and the rehabilitation of the Cold War liberal," York Times April 30 thousand six
• David Brooks, "changing bed fellows," New York Times June 15, 2006
• David Brooks, "party no. 3," New York Times August 10, 2006
• David Brooks, "dollars and sense," New York Times January 26, 2006
• David Brooks, "from freedom to authority," New York Times May 14, 2006
• Nicholas Cofessore, "welcome to the machine: how the GOP disciplined Quay Street and made Bush supreme," Washington monthly July/August 2003
• Cornelia Dean, "at a scientific gathering, US policies are lamented," New York Times that he ran a plea of 2006
• Benjamin DeMott, "junk politics: people whose guide to the post-literate election," Harpers November 2003
• Maureen Dowd, "don't pass the salted peanuts, Henry," New York Times October 4, 2006
• Thomas Frank, "a distant mirror" New York Times August 15, 2006
• Thomas Frank, "the culture crusade of Kansas," the New York Times August 8, 2006
• Thomas Frank, "the funders of liberty," August 29, 2006
• Thomas Friedman, "Let's (third) Party," near Times Mayfair 2006
• Daniel Galvin, "how to grow a Democratic majority," New York Times June 3, 2006
• Bob Herbert, "the stranger in the mirror," near Times September 14, 2006
• Bob Herbert, "the definition of tyranny," New York Times July 17, 2006
• Bob Herbert, "a president who can do no right," New York Times January 26, 2006
• Bob Herbert, "America the fearful," New York Times May 15, 2006
• Paul Krugman, "plus war politics," New York Times June 19, 2006
• Paul Krugman, "black and blue," New York Times July 24, 2006
• Paul Krugman, "the road to Dubai," New York Times March 31 thousand six
• Paul Krugman, "King of pain, " September 18, 2006
• Paul Krugman, "none sense and sensibility," New York Times August 11, 2006
• Paul Krugman, "George the unready," New York Times March 3, 2006
• Adam Liptak, "in leak cases, new pressure on journalists," near Times 3006
• Matt Miller, "beyond Viagra politics," New York Times June 1, 2005
• Matt Miller, "make 150,000% today! looking for a great return on investment ? hire a lobbyist," fortune, Deborah six 2006
• Tom Reiss, "can't happen here?," New York Times October 8, 2006
• Frank Rich, "can't win the war?  On the press!," New York Times July 2, 2006
• Frank Rich, "Will the real traders please stand up?," New York Times May 14, 2000 and six
• Frank Rich, "the Rove da Vinci code," New York Times May 21, 2006
• Frank Rich, "push of a thousand days," near to April 30, 2006
• Frank Rich, "from those wonderful folks who gave you axis of evil," New York Times July 16, 2006
• Frank Rich, "Donald Rumsfeld's dance with the Nazis," New York Times September 3, 2006
• Frank Rich, "five years after 9/11, fear finally strikes out," New York Times August 20, 2006
• Frank Rich, "the passion of the embryos," near Times July 23, 2006
• John Tierney, "disunited states of America," New York Times July 4, 2006
• John Tierney, "can his party be saved?," near Times September 2, 2006
• James traub, "party like it's 1994," near Times March 12, 2006

An Introduction to Economics

• Nobel war maps
• "A nation apart: A survey of America," The Economist 11/8/2003
• Armen Alchian, "Of Golf, Capitalism and Socialism," Wall Street Journal  
• Alberto Alesina & Eliana la Ferrara, "Ethnic diversity and economic performance," Journal of Economic Literature September 2005
• Apul Altman, "Help wanted: academic economists, pro-Bush,"  New York Times 11/27/2005
• David Armstrong, "Dick Cheney's Song of America," Harpers, Oct 2002
• W. Brian Arthur, "Why tech is still the future," Fortune 11/24/2003
• Kevin Baker, "We're in the Army now: The GOP's plan to militarized our culture," Harpers October 2003
• Robert Bates, "On The Politics of Property Rights by Haber, Razo, and Maurer," Journal of Economic Literature June 2004
• Fred Bergstrom, “The risks ahead for the world economy,” The Economist 9/11/2004
• Gordon Bigelow, "Let there be markets: The evangelical roots of economics," Harpers May 2005
• David Brooks, "Changing Bedfellows,"  New York Times June 15, 2006
• David Brooks, "Fly the partisan skies,"  New York Times 4/6/2004
• David Brooks, "The Bursting Point,"  New York Times September 4, 2005
• David Brooks, "The jagged world," New York Times September 3 2006
• David Brooks, "questions of culture," February 19, 2006
• David Brooks, "The era of what's next," NYT 10/26/2006
• Gordon Brown, "Old Europe's Choices," Wall Street Journal 10/16/2003
• Michael Cardarelli, "Why Cranston must charge for sports," Providence Journal

• "Catching up," The Economist, 8/23/2003

• Clayton Christensen, Thomas Craig, and Stuart Hart, "The Great Disruption, Foreign Affairs  2001

• Douglas Clement, "Thinking Like an Economist: A workshop on economic principles," Minn Fed 9/2003

• Deepening democracy in a fragmented world, UN's 2002 Human Development Report,

• "Dept. of Corrections" Harpers 6/2001
• Jared Diamond, "The Ideal Form of Organization," Wall Street Journal 12/13/2000
• Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," WW Norton
• Robert Dreyfuss, "The Thirty-Year Itch," Mother Jones Diary, March/April 2003 Issue
• "Peter Drucker sets us straight," Fortune 1/12/2004
• Peter Drucker, "Beyond the Information Revolution," The Atlantic Monthly 10/1999
• Peter Drucker, "The Age of Social Transformation," The Atlantic Monthly 11/1994
• John Elson, "Has history come to an end" Time, 9/4/1989
• "Europe's Scrap-heap" The Economist 8/18/2001
• "Evident truths," Harpers July 2004

• James Fallows, What is an economy for? The Atlantic Monthly; 1/1994

• James Fallows, "Countdown to a Meltdown," The Atlantic Monthly August 2005

• Franklin Foer, "The Talented Mr. Chavez," The Atlantic Monthly, May 2006

• Thomas Frank, rendezvous with the Bolivian," New York Times September 1, 2006and

• Thomas Friedman, "Latin America's Choice,"  New York Times June 21, 2006

• Benjamin Friedman, “Meltdown: A Case Study,” The Atlantic Monthly August 2005
• Francis Fukuyama, The Great Disruption, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; May 1999
• Daniel Gilbert, "He who casts the first stone probably didn't," NYT 7/24/2006
• Goldilocks Politics," The Economist 12/19/1998
• John Taylor Gatto, "Against School," Harpers September 2003
• "Go west, young Han," The Economist 12/23/2000
• Ted Halstead, The American paradox, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Jan/Feb 2003
• Rob Hebert, "A radical in the White House,"  New York Times April 18, 2005
• Bob Herbert, "Deceit beyond bounds,"  New York Times Aug 10, 2006
• Peter S. Heller, Who Will Pay? Coping with Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges International Monetary Fund November 2003
• Jack High, "To Park or Not To Park: Let the Market Decide." The Margin November 1987
• Arlie Russell Hochschild, A generation without public passion, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Feb 2001
• Robert Hormats, "The Technologies of Freedom," Wall Street Journal  
• "Human evolution: Homo economicus? The Economist, 4/9/2005
• Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilization?"  Foreign Affairs Summer 1993 (Alternative)
• "Introducing Big Government," The Economist 12/31/1999
• Michael Janofsky, "Professor's politics draw lawmakers into the fray,"  New York Times 12/15/2005
• Robert D Kaplan, Was democracy just a moment?, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Dec 1997
• Naomi Klein, "Baghdad year zero: pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia," Harpers September 2004
• David Kein, The People’s Romance: Why People Love Government (as much as they do)," Santa Clara Working Paper May 2005

• Keith Krehbiel,  Legislative Organization, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

• Nicholas Kristof, "Sex. lies, and Bush tapes," NYT 2/4/2004

• Alan Krueger and Jitka Malechova, "Education, poverty and terrorism: Is there a causal connection,?" Journal of Economic Perspectives Fall 3003

• Anne O. Krueger, "Reporting Economics Well," Minn Fed 9/2003

• Paul Krugman, "Bums and Rushes"  New York Times 2/7/2001
• Paul Krugman, “The big uneasy,”  New York Times September 23, 2005
• David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Are Some So Rich and Others So Poor?, WW Norton 1998
• Lewis Lapham, "n message," her purse October 2005
• Christopher Lasch, "The revolt of the elites," Harpers 11/1994
• Ross levine, "law, endowments, and property rights," Journal of Economic Perspectives Summer 2005
• "liberalism regained: building the next progressive majority," Harpers August 2004
• Nathan Littlefield, "The $45 Trillion Problem," The Atlantic Monthly J/F 2004
• Angus Maddison, "Poor Until 1820," Wall Street Journal 1/11/1999
• John Markoff, "A Rebel in Japan, an Inventor is Hailed as an Innovator in US,"   New York Times 9/18/2002
• Casey Mulligan, Ricard Gil, and Xavier Sala-i-Martin, "Do democracies have different public policies than nondemocracies?" Journal of Economic Perspectives Winter 2004

• Bill Moyers, "This is your story - The progressive story of America - Pass it on," Common dreams 6/12/2003

• Casey B. Mulligan, Ricard Gil and Xavier Sala-i-Martin,  Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies than Nondemocracies?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

• Rob Norton, "Dumbed-Down Economics," Fortune 1/7/2002

• Emily Oster, Witchcraft, Weather and Economic Growth in Renaissance Europe, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004
• "Palaeoeconomics: Mrs. Adam Smith," The Economist 12/9/2006
• Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini, Constitutions and Economic Policy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004
• William Pfaff," What we've lost: George AW Bush and the price of torture," Harpers November 2005
• Edmund Phelps, "The Global Crisis of Corporatism," Wall Street Journal 3/25/1999
• Ken Pomerantz, The Great Disruption, Princeton University Press, 2000
• Francine Prose, "Voting democracy off the island: reality TV and Republican ethos," Harpers March 2004
• Jonathan Rauch, "Reversing White Flight," The Atlantic Monthly October 2002
• Frank Rich, "Bring back Warren Harding,""  New York Times September 25, 2005
• Frank Rich, "The culture crusade of Kansas,"  New York Times Aug 8, 2006
• Frank Rich, "The mysterious death of Pat Tillman," New York Times November 6, 2005
• Frank Rich, "Why they won," New York Times November 5, 2004
• Shawn Ritenour, "How Subsidies Kill Symphonies," Wall Street Journal 4/8/1997
• Dani Rodrik & Romain Wacziarg, "to democratic transitions produce bad economic outcomes?," American economic review May 2005
• Jeffrey Sachs, " Welcome to the Asian century," Fortune  4/17/2004
• Jeffrey Sachs, "The geography of economic development," NWC Review, Autumn 2000
• Stephen Sass, "scarcity, mother of invention," near Times August 10, 2006
• Murray Sayle, The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Jun 1998
• S Sato, "Clash of civilizations or self-renovation through mutual learning?," Asia Pacific Review 10/1997
• Thom Shanker & David Stout, "Vietnam arvhive casts a shadow across decades,"  New York Times Nov. 17, 2005
• Robert Shiller, "American Casino," The Atlantic Monthly, March 2005
• Andre Shleifer, "Does competition destroy ethical behavior,? AER May 2004
• Frederick Simpich, "Today's World Turns on oil," National Geographic, June 1941
• Mark Slouka, "Quitting the paint factory," Harpers November 2004
• Rebecca Solnit, "The Uses of Disaster: Notes on bad weather and good government," Harpers October 2005
• Ron Suskind, "Without a doubt," New York Times 10/17/2004
• Jacob Svensson, "Eight questions about corruption," JRP Summer 2005
• "The good (and bad) model guide" The Economist 4/10/1999
• "The road to riches," The Economist 12/31/1999
• The United Nations, Harpers 2005
• "This is Monika. I'm Over the Wall" Wall Street Journal
• Lester Thurow "Building Wealth" The Atlantic Monthly, June 1999
• John Tierney, “Losing that new deal religion,” September 24, 2005
• "To each according to his abilities," The Economist 
• Steven Weinburg, "Five and a half utopias," The Atlantic Monthly January 2000
• Where the liberal things are." Harpers October 2004

• History of Economics

• Nouriel Roubini China's Economy    and  Geo-Strategic Implications of a Rising China on web site under Current Policy Topics

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Data Analysis

• Mining Data
• The Murder Mystery
• Making the Numbers

• "An agriprop guide to cluck and awe," New York Times May 10, 2006

• David Barstow, William Broad, Jeff Gerth, "how the White House embraced disputed arms intelligence," New York Times October 3, 2004

• Ian Buruma, "theater of war," New York Times, September 17, 2006 (a review of Frank Rich's "The greatest story ever sold."

• By the Numbers: China and the United States  The Region, Minn Fed 12/2003

• Carl Canon, "Untruth and Consequences," The Atlantic Monthly, J/F 2007

• Daniel Carlat, "Generic smear campaign,"  New York Times May 9, 2006

• "Catching up," The Economist, 8/23/2003

• Matthew Chapman, "God or gorilla: A darwin descendent at the Dover moneky trial," Harpers February 2006

• Jack Curry, " BASEBALL; Damon's Agent Eager For Stats to Be Binding,"  New York Times 11/22/2005

• Robert Cushing and Bill Bishop, "The rural war,"  New York Times July 20, 2005

• Bob Davis, "Class Warfare: Dueling Professors Have Milwaukee Dazed Over Vouchers," Wall Street Journal October 11, 1996

• John Dean, "Missing weapons of mass destruction: is lying about the reasons for war an impeachable offense?," Common Dreams News Center June 3, 2003

• John DiLulio, Jr. "What the Crime Statistics Don't Tell You," Wall Street Journal January 8, 1997

• "Don't know much about history," NYT July 1, 2006

• Peter Doran, "Cold hard Facts,"  New York Times July 276, 2006

• Stephen Dubner & Steven Levitt, "A star is made,"  New York Times May 7, 2006

• James Fallows, "Low-Class Conclusions," The Atlantic Monthly; April 1993

• Thomas Friedman, "How many Scientists?," NYT March 28, 2007

• Michael Fumento, "Medical Journals Give New Meaning to 'Political Science,'" Wall Street Journal January 21, 1999

• Richard Goodwin, "Making the facts fit the case for war,"  New York Times Feb 8, 2004

• Austan Gollsbee, "How Rankings Rate," New York Times 4/12/2004

• Lori Gotlieb, "How do I love thee?," The Atlantic Monthly March 2006

• Brian Greene, "That famous equation and you," New York Times, September 30, 2005

• Joshua Green, "The numbers war," The Atlantic Monthly May 2006

• "Gut reactions." The Economist, 12/9/1995

• Keith Hammonds, "Billy Beane," Fast Company May 2003

• Gardiner Harris and Janet Roberts, "Doctors' ties to drug makers are put on close view," NYT March 21, 2007

• Bob Herbert, "George Bush's trillion-dollar war," NYT March 23, 2006

• Bob Herbert, "Working the truth beat" NYT April 30, 2007

• "He said, she said, nobody knew," The Economist 11/20/2004

•  Patrick Hruby, "616* (* no asterisk required)," ESPN online Thursday, May 11, 2006 Updated: May 22, 9:10 AM ET

• "If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly," The Economist 8/23/2000

• Jane Katz, "Making the Numbers, How companies manage earnings," Regional Review 2000:1

• Gina Kolata, "Data on deaths from obesity is inflated, US agency says," New York Times 11/24/2004

• Nicholas Kristof, "Don't turn us into poodles,"  New York Times July 4, 2006
• Paul Krugman, "Big Box Balderdash,"  New York Times 12/12/2005
• Paul Krugman, "Enemy of the planet,"  New York Times April 17, 2006
• Paul Krugman, "Secretary, protect yourself,"  New York Times June 2, 2006
• Paul Krugman, "Swift boating the planet,"  New York Times may 29, 2006 -
• Paul Krugman, "Weapons of math destruction,"  New York Times 4/14/2006
• Paul Krugman, Whose crazy now?,"  New York Times mAY 8, 2006
• Paul Krugman, "defending imperial nudity," New York Times, November 4, 2005 for
• Joshua Kurlantzick, ""Economy of scale: President Bush has been no friend to small business," Harpers, July 2004
• Bruno Latour, "The last Critique," Harpers April 2004

• Steven D. Levitt, Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

• Lee McIntyre, "The Murder Mystery," Regional Review 2000:1  Explaining the recent drop in homicide

• Michael Pakko, The Economics of Smoking Bans, The Regional Economsit July 2005

• Kenneth Pollacj, "Spies, lies, and weapons: What went wrong," The Atlantic Monthly Jan/Feb 2006

• John Allen Paulos, "Counting on Dysalculia," Discover March 1994

• Robert Pear, "buying of news by Bush's aides is ruled illegal," New York Times October 1, 2000 if

• Kenneth Pollack, "spies, lies, and weapons: what went wrong." the Atlantic monthly January/February 2004

• Eyal Press, "Do immigrants make us safer?," NYT December 3, 2006

• Frank Rich, "Truthiness 101: From Frey to Alito,"  New York Times 1/22/2006

• Frank Rich, "of mysterious death of Pat Tillman," New York Times November 6, 2005

• Donna Rosato, "Worried About Corporate Numbers? How About the Charts,"  New York Times, September 15, 2003

• Richard Rosenfeld, "What Democracy? The case for abolishing the United States senate." Harpers May 2004

• "School reform in danger,"  New York Times editorial 5/8/2006

• "science ignored, again," New York Times

• Thom Shanker & David Stout, "Vietnam's archive casts a shadow across decades," New York Times November 17, 2005

• "Signifying nothing: Too many economists misuse statistics," The Economist 1/31/2004

• Source of our Problems

• Ron Suskind, "without a doubt," New York Times October 17, 2004

• "The Iraqi war: Counting the casualties," The Economist 11/6/2004

• Linda Tischler, Tech for Toques," Fast Company May 2005

• Edward Tufte, "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint," May 2003

• Louis Uchitelle, "In Home Ownership Data, a Hidden Generation Gap,"  New York Times, September 26, 1999

• Miriam Wasserman, "Mining Data," Regional Review 2000:3

• "White House Effect," Harpers May 2004

• JoAnn Wypijewski, "Judgement days: Lessons from Abu Ghraib courts- martial," Harpers Feb 2006

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Opportunity Cost

• Jack Beatty, "The Right Thing?," The Atlantic Monthly October 2004
• Jack Beatty, The Butcher's Bill, The Atlantic Monthly December 2004
  Choices
• Linda Blimes, "waging the into our war" US Today, ??
• Linda Blimes & George Stiglitz, " The Economic costs of the Iraq War: An appraisal three years after the beginning of the conflict,"
• "EVA Analysis" University of Illinois, Chicago
• James Fallows, "Bush's Lost Year," The Atlantic Monthly October 2004
• Fortune series on business choices6/27/2005
• Michael Useem and Jerry Useem, "Great Escapes"
• "Jim Collins on Tough Calls"
• "20 That Made History"
• Ronald Glasser, "A War of disabilities: Iraq's hidden costs are coming home," cuff July 2005
• Ted Koppel, "The long, cost-free war," NYT 11/6/2006
• Rauch, "if you keep son reigned, Levy is going to break: the loss of New Orleans wasn't just a tragedy, it was a plan," This Reason, September 19, 2005
• SBA, "How much is your time worth?,"  
• Jane Spencer, "How much is your time worth?,"  Wall Street Journal 2/26/2003
• "Shawn Tully, "America's Greatest Wealth Creators," Fortune 11/9/1998
• Louis Uchitelle, "Disasters waiting to happen,"  New York Times September 11, 2005
• Louis Uchitelle, "When talk of guns and butter includes lives lost,"  New York Times January 15, 2006

• Cost-Benefit Analysis Guide for NIH ITs
• John L. Moore, Cost-Benefit Analysis: Issues in Its Use in Regulation, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division,
  June 28, 1995
• Mind Tools, Cost/benefit analysis
• Thayer Watkin, Introduction to Cost Benefit Analysis

http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/cost_of_war_in_iraq.pdf

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International trade

• Cletus C. Coughlin, "The Controversy Over Free Trade: The Gap Between Economists and the General Public,"  FRBSF Review J/F 2002
• Paul Kennedy, "Introduction" in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
• George Melloan, "Denying China Trade Won't Soften It's Tough Guys," Wall Street Journal 3/14/2000
• International Trade: First step
• "A Taste of Adventure," The Economist, December 19, 1998
• Hummels, "Transportation costs and international trade in the second era of globalization," JEP Summer 2007
• Leamer, "A Flat World, a level playing field, a small world after all, or none of teh above? A review of Friedman's The World is Flat," JEL March 2007
•  World of Spice, American Spice Trade Association
• Thee Age of Discovery 1340-1600 (map), from Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923
• Historical maps of the world
• British Empire timeline
• The British Empire
• Map - British Empire

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Supply & demand

• Hollywood Stock Exchange
• Iowa Electronic Markets
• Political markets
• The Pharmacist Shortage in Pharmacist Workforce: Study of Supply and Demand for Pharmacists  
• World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates
• Supply of and Demand for Electricity in California
• William James Adams, "markets: beer in Germany in United States," JEP Winter 2006
• Gary Becker, "It's Simple: Hike the Minimum Wage, and Put People out of Work" Business Week 3/6/1995
• Becker & Elias, "Introducing incentives in the market for live and cadaveric organ donations," JEP Summer 2007

• Chris Berdik, "Fair Trade: An economic solution to the kidney shortage," BC Magazine Fall 2006

• Berg, Forsythe, Nelson, Reitz, "Results from a Dozen Years of Election Futures Markets Research," 2000
• Jane Black,the the the "the race to satisfy caviar craving," New York Times September 27, 2006
• John Campbell, "The Market for Hotels: If they come, will you build it?" Regional Review 1998:2
• Carrie Conway, Diagnosis: Shortage. The Past, Present, and Future of the Registered Nurse Workforce, Regional Review 2001:3
• "Drowning in coffee," The Economist 9/20/2001
• Kenneth Couch, " Distribution and Employment Impacts of Raising the Minimum Wage," FRBSF Economic Letter, 2/19/1999
• Conor Dougherty, "The parking fix," WSJ Feb 3, 2007
• Stephen Dubner & Steven Levitt, "flesh trade: weighing the repugnance factor," New York Times July 9, 2006
• Robert Frank, "Pricing the ballgame,"  New York Times 12/4/2002
• "Guessing games," The Economist 11/20/2004
• Wade Graham, "A Hundred Rivers Run through It," Harpers June 1998
• Erica Goshen & Colin Drozdowski, "The Recent Rise in the Value of Education: Market Forces at Work," Economic Commentary 8/15/1992
• Howard, "Producing organ donors," JEP Summer 2007
• David kay Johnston, "Taking control of electric bills, hour by hour," NYT Jan 8, 2007
• Jeremy Kahn, "The man who would have us bet on terrorism,"   Fortune 9/15/2003
• James McFarland, "free-market football," near Times April 29, 2006
• Paul W. Rhode and Koleman S. Strumpf,  Historical Presidential Betting Markets, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2004
• Roth, "Repugnancy as a constraint on markets," JEP Summer 2007
• Steven Saul, Making a fortune by wagering that drug prices tend to rise,  New York Times 1/26/2005
• Ronald Schmidt, "Diamonds and water: a paradox revisited," FRBSF Weekly Letter 12/4/1992
• Kim Sosin's interactive site at the University of South Carolina 
• Nicholas Stein, "Crisis in a Coffee Cup," Fortune 12/9/2002
• "Surely not rent controls?" The Economist 4/8/1995
• Bob Tedeschi, "I'll trade you my Titanic for your Spiderman," New York Times October 16, 2006  - online barter of dvds
• US Department of Health and Human Services, The Pharmacist Shortage in Pharmacist Workforce: Study of Supply and Demand for Pharmacists  Report to Congress
• Robert Valetta, "The minimum wage," FRBSF Economic Letter 10/11/1996
• David Warsh, "In which the Internet threatens Holland," Boston Globe 
• Miriam Wasserman, "Trouble in Coffee Lands," NE Fed Regional Review, 2002:2
• Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz, Prediction Markets, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Swpring 2004
• World Agricultural Outlook Board, Office of the Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates
• Madeline Zavodny, "Why minimum wage hikes may not reduce employment," FRBtl Economic Review 1998:2

Oil & energy

• Richard Anderson and Jason Buol, "What is driving oil prices?,"  Regional Economist Jan 2005
• Tim Appenzeller, "The end of cheap oil," National Geographic June 2004

• Robert Barskey and Lutz Kilian, "Oil and the macroeconomy since the 1970s," Journal of Economic Perspectives Fall 2004

• California Energy Commission, Estimated Gasoline Price Breakdown and Margins

• Jon Berger, "The truth about Oil," Fortune October 3, 2005
• Jon Berger, "The great corn rush," Fortune April 6, 2007
• Chronology of world oil prices
• Ted Conover, "Fuel lines," NYT March 11, 2007

• Anthony H. Cordesman, Geopolitics and Energy, Key Trends: 2000-2020, Center for Strategic and International Studies July 2002.

• Current Energy, Supply of and Demand for Electricity in California charts for CA and other places
• Tom Daschle and Vinod Kholsla, "Miles per cob,"  New York Times 5/8/2006
• Thomas Friedman, "As energy prices rise, its all downhill for democracy,"  New York Times 5/5/2006
• Thomas friedman, "The new sputnik challenges: they all run on oil,"  New York Times 1/20/ 2006
• Thomas Friedman, "The Post Post-Cold War,"  New York Times 5/10/2006
• S. Julio Friedmann & Thoms Homer-Dixon, "Out of the energy box," Foreign Affairs N/D 2004
• Fueleconomy.gov
• Richard Lugar, "Energy Security: Cause for Cooperation or Competition?," Transcript from talk at Brookings March 13, 2006
• Amy Myers Jaffe and Robert A. Manning, "The Shocks of a World of Cheap Oil," Foreign Affairs January/February 2000 
• Kevin L. Kliesen,  Rising Oil Prices and Economic Turmoil: Must They Always Go Hand in Hand? Regional Economist January 2001
• Abraham Lustgarten, "the dark magic," Fortune October 3, 2005
• Mabro, "OPEC behavior 1960-1998: A review of the literature," Journal of Energy Literature, 1998
• Leonardo Maugeri, "Two cheers for expensive oil," Foreign Affairs M/A 2006
• "Money to burn: why oil exporters' enormous surpluses may last longer this time," The Economist 4/2/2006
• "Oil in Troubled Waters," The Economist  4/30/2005
• "chttp://web.nps.navy.mil/~relooney/Stratfor_Oil_1.htm," Stratford.com 2002
• William Powers, "All smoke, no fire in Bolivia,"  New York Times 5/6/2006
• Oliver Ryan, "The Rainwater prophecy," Fortune 12/26/2005
• Schwartz, "Oil's New Mr. Big," Fortune October 3, 2005
• Robert Semple, "The end of oil,"  New York Times March 1, 2006
• William Sharpe, "Winners and Losers in Oil-Price Fall" Wall Street Journal 3/24/1986
• "The oil industry: Steady as she goes," The Economist 4/22/2006
• Daniel Yergin, "Ensuring energy security," Foreign Affairs M/A 2006
• David Zweig and Bi Jianhai, China's Global Hunt for Energy, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005
• OECD, Energy: The Next Fifty Years  1999 International Futures Programme
  • "the long-term future for energy: an assessment of key trends and challenges"
  • "world energy prospects to 2020: issues and uncertainties"
  • "global energy perspectives: 2050 and beyond"
  • "energy demand patterns towards 2050"
  • "systems options for sustainable development"

Bubbles

• Asset price bubbles: Implications for monetary, regulatory, and international policies (Special Issue) Sept 2002 No. 181b
• "Bursting bubbles" The Economist 8/6/1994
• Garber, P.M., "Famous first bubbles," Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol.4 (2) Spring 1990
• David Grainger, "Bubble in the Heartland," Fortune 11/25/2002
• Daniel Gross, "Ready for everything under the solar panel?,"  New York Times 1/1/2006
• Paul Krugman, "Greenspan and the bubble," New York Times August 29, 2005
• David Leonhardt, "Be warned: Mr. bubble's word again," New York Times August 21,  2005
• Andrew Sorkin, "The Great Buyout Bubble, " returns November 13, 2005
• Adam Zaretsky, "Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble," St. Louis Fed,  Regional Economist, April 1999
• American Financial Panics
• The South Sea Bubble of 1720
• The Mississippi Bubble? - 1720
• The Crime of 1873
• "Keeping The Money Where It Will Do Most Good", the Panic of 1873 in the pages of Harper's Weekly
• The Free Silver Movement [influenced dy the Panic of 1873]
• The Panic of 1893
• "The Silver Panic", by Lawrence W. Reed
• The Panic of 1907, "Paul Warburg's Crusade to Establish a Central Bank in the United States," By Michael A. Whitehouse
• The Stock Market Crash of 1929
• "Evolving Post-World War II U.S. Inflation Dynamics", by Timothy Cogley

Housing

• The Market for Hotels: If they come, will you build it?
• Appreciating the House
• The center restored: Chicago's residential price gradient reemerges
• Bret & Tricia Beard, "Getting real about real estate," Fortune Dec. 25, 2006
• "Close to Bursting," The Economist, May 31, 2003
• Erik Eckholm, "Foreclosures force suburbs to fight back," NYT March 23, 2007
• Edward Glaeser et al, "why have housing prices going up?," AEA May 2005
• "Going through the roof," The Economist 3/30/2002
• David Grainger, "Riding the Boom," Fortune 5/30/2005
• Richard Green & Susan Wachter, "the American mortgage in-store call an international context," JEP Fall 2005
• Charles Himmelberg, Christopher Mayer, & Todd Sinai, "assessing high house prices: bubbles, fundamentals and misperceptions," JEP Fall 2005
• Michael Hudson, "The new road to serfdom," Harpers May 2006
• Jane Katz , Running in Cycles Boston Fed Regional Review 2/3 2004 
• John Krainer, "House Price Bubbles," FRBSF Economic Letter, 3/7/2001
• Ellen Kratz, "Fear of Falling," Fortune 12/26/2005
• Paul Krugman, "No bubble trouble?"  New York Times 1/2/2006
• Paul Krugman, "housing gets overly," New York Times August 25, 2006
• Paul Krugman, "Bursting bubble blues," NYT Oct 30, 2006
• John M. Quigley and Steven Raphael,  Is Housing Unaffordable? Why Isn’t It More Affordable? , Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004
• Nouriel Roubini Housing and Housing Market Bubbles on web site under Current Policy Topics
• Janny Scott & Randal Archiobald, "across nation, housing costs rise as burden," New York Times October 3, 2006
• Robert Shiller, "The stock market in historical perspective," Irrational Exuberance
• Robert Shiller, "Safe as Houses,"  Wall Street Journal 12/17/2002
• "The global housing market: flimsy foundations," The Economist 12/11/2004
• Shawn Tully, "Is the housing boom over?” Fortune, September 20, 2004
• Miriam Wasserman, Appreciating the House, Regional Review 1998:2
• David Wheelock, "what happens to banks when house prices fall? US regional housing bus of the 1980s and 1990s," St. Louis Review, September October 2006

Stocks

• Wayne Angel, "The Bubble Won't Burst,"  Wall Street Journal February 3, 1999
• Herbert Baer, "Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble," Chicago Fed Letter,  Nov. 1988
• "Bubble, Bubble," The Economist March 25, 2000
• Golob & Bishop, "What long-run returns can investors expect from the stock market?," KC Economic Review 1997:3
• Peter Fortune, "A primer on US stock price indices," NEER N/D 1998
• Glassman & Hassett, "Dow 36,000," The Atlantic Monthly 9/1999
• Paul Krugman, "Coming down to earth," NYT May 19, 2007
• George Melloan, "Is Crash Talk Trash Talk? Well, Not Entirely," Wall Street Journal 4/14/1997
• Tracy, Schneider, Chan, "Are stocks overtaking real estate in household portfolios?," FRBNY Current Issues, April 1999
• Bharat Trent, "Evaluating the stock market," FRBSF 6/30/2000

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Investing

• ACGNJ Investing SIG Links Page
• Moody's Investors Service
• Publicly Traded Companies Financial Data Page - from NCS
• PR Newswire

Financial calculators

• BankRate

• Interest.com

• HSH Associates

• Kiplinger

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Elasticity

• Anna Bernasek, "Real energy savers don't wear cardigans. Or do they? New York Times November 13, 2005
• The price elasticity of demand
• "ESTIMATION OF THE RESIDENTIAL PRICE ELASTICITY OF DEMAND FOR WATER BY MEANS OF A CONTINGENT VALUATION APPROACH."

• The Price Elasticity of Demand for Credit in LDC, Yale 2006

Households/demographics

Demographics

World

•  "Global Demographic Change: Economic Impacts and Policy Challenges" KC Fed 2004,
• Peter S. Heller, Who Will Pay? Coping with Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges International Monetary Fund
  November 2003
• IMF -- The Global Impact of Demographic Change
• The Global Demographic Transition, World Economic Outlook, IMF World Economic Outlook, September 2004
• Richard Johnson, Economic Policy Implications of World Demographic Change  KCER 1:2004
• Paul Kennedy, "Must it be the West vs the Rest," The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Dec 1994
• Ronald Lee, The Demographic Transition: Three Centuries of Fundamental Change   Journal of Economic Literature Dec 2003
• Philip Longman, "The Global baby Bust," Foreign Affairs M/J 2004
• Geoffrey McNicoll, "Population and development: An introductory view." Population Council Working Paper
• Beth nonte Russell, "The mystery of the Chinese baby shortage," NYT Jan 23, 2007
• Michael Teitelbaum et al, "Demography is not destiny," Foreign Affairs S/O 2004

US

• Sam Roberts, "To be married means to be outnumbered," NYT 10/15/2006

Age

• "All our tomorrows, A Survey of the Economics of ageing," The Economist 1/27/1996

• "Beanie boom and bust: will share prices crash as baby boomers sell their assets to pay for retirement? the economist May 13, 2006

• "Bright young things, A Survey of the Young," The Economist 12/23/2000

• Caring for a Large Geriatric Generation: The Coming Crisis in U.S. Health Care Levy Institute 2003/3

• Gail Naron Chalow, "Anya Kamentz on Generation Debt," Special to the Jewish Times Feb. 26, 2006

• "Corporate America's legacy costs," The Economist October 15, 2005

• Sara Davidson, "A longer, better life," NYT May 6, 2007

• Arlene Dohm, "Gauging the labor force effects of retiring baby-boomer," Monthly Labor Review July 2000  (PPT)

• Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven, "War between the Generations: Federal Spending on the Elderly Set to Explode," Cato Policy Analysis No. 488, September 16, 2003.

• "Forever young: A survey of retirement," The Economist 3/27/2004

• "Golf in America: Blues on the green," The Economist Oct 14, 2006

• Erica L. Groshen and Thomas Klitgaard, "Live Long and Prosper: Challenges Ahead for an Aging Population," NY Fed Current Issues, February  2002 

• Amy Hoak, "Advertising's generation gap," Market Watch March 6, 2007

• Kevin Kliessen, Assessing the Generational Gap in Future Living Standards through Generational Accounting," Regional Economist April 1997

• Paul Krugman, "America's Senior Moment," The New York Review of Books," March 10, 2005

• Roger Lowenstein, "The end of pensions," New York Times, October 30, 2005

• Lorne Manly, "TV's silver age," NYT May 6, 2007

• Charles Mann, "The Coming Death Shortage," The Atlantic Monthly May 2005

• Daphne Merkin, "Reinventing middle age," NYT May 6, 2007

• Alicia Munnell, "Retirement Blues,"  BC Magazine

• OECD Aging Society

• Rauch, "Taking Stock," The Atlantic Monthly, J/F 2003
• rETIREMENT AND BANKS: fROM CHEQUE BOOKS TO CHECKING PULSES," tHE eCONOMIST aPRIL 14, 2007

• William Rukeyser, "Let's do the hobble," The Atlantic Monthly July 1995

• Danielle Sachs, "Scenes from the culture clash," Fast Company J1n/Feb 2006

• "State pension systems that mimic private accounts," The Economist Feb 18, 2006

• "Will share prices crash as baby-boomers sell their assets for retirement?, The Economist May 13, 2006

• Andrew Zolli, "The population hourglass," Fast Company March 2006

Ethnicity

• "Black power: America's Blacks have growing political clout," The Economist Feb 3, 2007

• Sam Dillon, "in schools across US, the melting pot overflows," near Times August 27, 2006

• David Fasenfest..., Living Together: A new look at racial and ethnic integration in metropolitan neighborhoods, 1990-2000, Brookings April 2004

• William Frey, "Diversity spreads out: Metropolitan shifts in Hispanic, Asian, and Black Populations Since 2000, Brookings March 2006

• Miriam Jordan & Valerie Bauerlein, "Bank of America Casts Wider net for Hispanics," WSJ Feb 13, 2007

• Robert Kaplan, "Travels into America's Future, Southwest" The Atlantic Monthly July 1998

• Robert Kaplan, "Travels into America's Future, Mexico" The Atlantic Monthly July 1998

• Pico Lyer, "Where World's Collide," Harper's August 1995

• Matt Richtell & Ken Belson, "Cell carriers seek growth by catering to Hispanics,"  New York Times May 30, 2006

• Shelby Steele, "The age of white guilt," Harper's August 1995

• Toussaint-Comeau, Changing Hispanic demographics: Opportunities and constraints in the financial market (Special Issue) Chicago Fed Letter, Aug 2003 

States / Region

• Harlow Hyde, "Slow death in the great plains," Atlantic Monthly June 1997

• Christopher Caldwell, The Southern Captivity of The GOP, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Jun 1998

• Richard Florida, "where the brains are: America's educated elite is clustered in a few cities-and leaving the rest of the country behind," the Atlantic monthly October 2006

• Michael Lind, "The New Continental Divide" The Atlantic Monthly (January/February 2003)

• Jordan Rappaport, U.S. Urban Decline and Growth, 1950 to 2000,  KC Fed, Economic Review, Third Quarter 2003 

• Witold Rybczynski, Downsizing cities, The Atlantic Monthly; Boston; Oct 1995

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Immigration

• Richard H. Adams Jr., 2003. "International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain: A Study of 24 Labor-Exporting Countries," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3069, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
• Agiomirgianakis, George & Zervoyianni, Athina, 2001. "Globalization of labor markets and macroeconomic equilibrium," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 10(2), pages 109-133, 0. [Downloadable!]
• Daniel Altman, "Immigration math: It's a long story,"  New York Times June 18, 2006
• "An immigration bottom line,"  New York Times May 21, 2006
• A price worth paying?" The Economist 6/1/2002
• A world of exiles," The Economist 1/4/2003
• Pratibha Basrao, 2003. "The Impact of the Construction Sector in the Catching up Process of the Czech Republic and the Role of Labor Migration in that Context," NEURUS papers neurusp7, NEURUS - Network of European and US Regional and Urban Studies. [Downloadable!]
• Roy Beck, "The ordeal of immigration in Wasau," The Atlantic Monthly April 1994
• George Borjas, "The economics of immigration," Journal of Economic Literature, Dec 1994
• George Borjas, The New Economics of Im