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Additional Materials and Readings for Courses

This page just collects together the optional or recommended additional readings from several of my courses.

Intermediate Macro Additional Materials

​Additional Reading

 

The Economics of TIME

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Gary Becker's 1965 Classic (Optional and Advanced/Technical)

  • "A Theory of the Allocation of Time," by Gary Becker, The Economic Journal. September 1965.

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Modern FED Policy Framework

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Birth of Money​

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Early Trade Structures

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Friedrich Hayek's 1945 Classic (Optional)

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Additional Material for the More Analysis-Oriented Student

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Game Theory  Additional Materials

BOOKS for the Course

  1. Joel Watson, " Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory (Third Edition)" I found this to be the best undergrad text to use and used it for years.  I highly recommend it.

  2. Chris Ball (draft) "Modelling With Games: An Introduction to Modelling Human Behavior Using Game Theory"

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READINGS

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ADDITIONAL MATERIAL​

  • Mixed Strategies - YouTube Video that's presented similar to the way we do in class. Note: I let p = prob(P2 chooses s1) and q = prob(P1 chooses s1). They switch them in this video. Otherwise, very similar to how I present it.

  • Another version of Harsanyi's Centipede game - YouTube Video, useful for understanding strategies and backward induction, extensive form games.

  • Bridge Burning and Commitment - YouTube Video, useful for extensive forms, SPE, and also understanding the key nature of strategies and commitment

  • Joel Watson's lectures for undergrads. The great thing is that all his notation will be the same as what we use since we follow his textbook closely.​

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