MACROECONOMICS READING CLUB

For those of you who study macroeconomics and finance, here are some interesting articles on macroeconomic issues:

Menzie Chinn, The Employment Situation in the Graphs, Econobrowser, December 4, 2009 (link)

Menzie Chinn, Debt and Interest Rates; Some Empirical Evidence, November 23, 2009 (link)

Olivier Blanchard, Marianna Riggi, The Price of Oil and the Macroeconomy, Vox, December 7, 2009 (link)

Roel Beetsma, Massimo Guliodori, The Macroeconomic Costs and Benefits of the Economic and Monetary Union, Vox, November 27, 2009 (link)

SELECTED READINGS IN ECONOMICS

Here's my current reading list of economics books:

Paul Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld, International Economics, Theory and Policy, Addison-Wesley, 1997
Dominick Salvatore, International Economics, 8th Edition, Wiley, 2004
Simon Kuznets, Economic Growth of Nations, Harvard University Press, 1971
Alan Walters, Britain's Economic Renaissance, Oxford University Press, 1986
Christian Montet, Daniel Serra, Game Theory & Economics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
Paul Krugman, Pop Internationalism, MIT Press, 1996
Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity, W.W. Norton & Company, 1994

MY READING LIST IN THESE DAYS

In previous days, there has been much less blogging on my blog due to study course and a growing list of obligations regarding studying and reading the required material. In Friday, there will be more blogging as I've already picked the selected writing and analytical topics. Here is what I read in these days:

Paul A. Samuelson, William D. Nordhaus: Economics, 16th edition,
Douglas G. Baird, Robert H. Gertner, Randal C. Picker: Game Theory and the Law,
Gordon Tullock: The Rent-Seeking Society
Gordon Tullock: Virginia Political Economy,
Gordon Tullock: Bureaucracy,
Gordon Tullock: The Calculus of Consent,
Ludwig von Mises: Human Action,
Richard Posner: Economic Analysis of Law

ALAN GREENSPAN'S THE AGE OF TURBULENCE

Here's a new book written by former chairman of the FED, Alan Greenspan (link).

And here is a book review by J. Bradford DeLong published in LA Times (link).