Summer Reading Plan

The spring semester is over for about two weeks now, and it is yet again the time to make grand plans in life.

Even though I've passed my economic history class, of the 800 page reader I've probably only read one third thoroughly, and of one third of the reader that I have actually not read, nor flipped, nor glimpse, nor touch on, and they shall be read...

• Malthus, Thomas. 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population. Selection reprinted in Kapp and Kapp, pp. 117-38.
• Ricardo, David. 1817. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (3e, 1821), chs. 2, 5.
• Mill, John Stuart. 1848. Principles of Political Economy, Book IV, chs. 4-6; Book V, ch. 11.
• Bastiat, Frédéric. 1845. “A Petition”. Translated in Economic Sophisms (1964), pp. 56-60.
• Ricardo, David. 1817. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (3e, 1821), ch. 31.
• Malthus, Thomas. 1820. Principles of Political Economy, selection reprinted in Kapp and Kapp, pp. 184-93.
• Carey, Henry C. 1857-60. Principles of Social Science, selections reprinted in Patterson, pp. 448-53.
• Weber, Max. 1904. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, ch. 2.
• Veblen, Thorstein. 1899. The Theory of the Leisure Class, chs. 1-2.
• List, Friedrich. 1841. The National System of Political Economy, selections translated in Newman, pp. 298-318.
• Owen, Robert. 1821. “Report to the County of Lanarck”, reprinted in Kapp and Kapp, pp. 232-44.
• Mill, John Stuart. 1848. Principles of Political Economy, Book II, ch. 1; Book IV, ch. 7.
• Marx, Karl. “Estranged Labor”, in The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, translated in The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert C. Tucker (2e 1978), pp. 70-81.
• Marx, Karl. 1859. Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy, selection translated in Patterson, pp. 636-37.
• Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. 1848. Manifesto of the Communist Party, translated in Tucker, pp. 473-91.
• Marx, Karl. 1849. Wage Labor and Capital. Translated in Tucker, pp. 203-18.
• Marx, Karl. 1853. “The British Rule in India”. N.Y. Daily Tribune, reprinted in Karl Marx on Colonialism and Modernization, ed. Shlomo Avineri (1968), pp. 83-89.
• Marx, Karl. 1867. “Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation”, in Capital, vol. 1, translated in Tucker, pp. 436-38.
• Engels, Friedrich. 1883. “Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx”, reprinted in Tucker, pp. 681-82.
• Veblen, Thorstein. 1909. “The Limitations of Marginal Utility”, reprinted in Newman, pp. 524-30.
• Marshall, Alfred. 1890. Principles of Economics (8e 1920), pp. v-xi, xiv-xv.
• Lenin, V.I. 1917. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, selections reprinted in Wright, pp. 44-59.
• Schumpeter, Joseph. 1919. “The Sociology of Imperialisms”, selections reprinted in Wright, pp. 69-88.
• Veblen, Thorstein. 1921. The Engineers and the Price System, pp. 52-67.
• Hayek, Friedrich. 1945. “The Use of Knowledge in Society”. American Economic Review, reprinted 1977.
• Schumpeter, Joseph. 1939. Business Cycles, pp. 130-38.
• Keynes, John Maynard. 1937. “The General Theory of Employment”. Quarterly J. Economics, reprinted in Newman, pp. 714-21.
• Keynes, John Maynard. 1936. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, ch. 24.
• Friedman, Milton. 1968. “The Role of Monetary Policy.” American Economic Review 58: 1-17.
• Rostow, W.W. 1960. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (3e, 1990), ch. 2.

Game Theory Papers
Ten Little Treasures of Game Theory and TEn intuitive Contradictions by Jacob K. Goeree and Charles A. Holt
Nash Equilibrium and the History of Economic Theory by Roger B. Myerson

Books
Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
Monkey Business by John Rolfe and Peter Troob

And finally finishing A Random Walk Down Wall Street