Reading Groups
International Political Economy Reading Group
The International Political Economy Reading Group gives UCLA faculty the opportunity to discuss new directions for research using work in progress by leading scholars from around the world to stimulate debate.
- "Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa"
by Robert Bates, John Coatsworth, and Jeffrey Williamson. Reading for week of December 5, 2006. - Are We Collapsing? A Review of Jared Diamond's 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed'
by Scott E. Page. Reading for week of November 28, 2006. - 1491
by Charles C. Mann. Reading for week of November 21, 2006. - Inside the Black Box of 'White Flight': The Role of Suburban Political Autonomy and Public Goods
by Leah Platt Boustan. Reading for week of November 14, 2006. - Slavery, Institutional Development, and Long-Run Growth in Africa, 1400-2000
by Nathan Nunn. Reading for week of November 7, 2006 - Iraq War Casualties and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election
by David Karol and Edward Miguel. Reading for week of October 31, 2006. - THE FAILURE TO SEE THAT THE SHAH MIGHT FALL: The Jervis Post-Mortem for the CIA in Retrospect
by Robert Jervis. Reading for week of October 24, 2006. - Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. Reading for week of October 17, 2006. - Oil and Patriarchy
by Michael Ross. Reading for week of October 10, 2006. - Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets
by Ray Fisman and Edward Miguel. Reading for week of October 3, 2006. - Geography vs. Institutions Revisited: Were Fortunes Reversed?
by Adam Przeworski. Reading for week of June 6, 2006. - Democracy and Protectionism
by Kevin H. O'Rourke and Alan M. Taylor. Reading for week of May 30, 2006 - The Diffusion of Development
by Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg. Reading for week of May 16, 2006 - The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting
by Stefano Della Vigna and Ethan Kaplan. Reading for week of May 9, 2006. - Oil for What? -- Illicit Iraqi Oil Contracts and the U.N. Security Council
by Paul Heaton. Reading for week of May 2, 2006. - Developments in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being
by Daniel Kahneman and Alan B. Krueger. Reading for week of April 25, 2006. - The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. Reading for week of April 18, 2006. - Myths and Realities of American Political Geography
by Edward L. Glaeser and Bryce A. Ward. Reading for week of April 11, 2006. - Democracy and Economic Growth: A meta-analysis
by Hristos Doucouliagos and Mehmet Ulubasoglu. Reading for week of March 21, 2006. - How's Your Government? International Evidence Linking Good Government and Well-Being
by John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang. Reading for week of March 14, 2006. - The Gift of Dying
by Alwin Young. Reading for week of March 7, 2005. - Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth Since World War II
By Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken. Reading for week of February 28, 2006 - Constitutions, Politics, and Economics: A Review Essay on Persson and Tabellini's The Economic Effects of Constitutions
by Daron Acemoglu. Reading for week of February 21, 2006. - A Measure of Media Bias
by Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo. Reading for week of February 14, 2006 - A Flat World, A Level Playing Field, a Small World After All, or None of the Above?
By Edward E. Leamer. Reading for week of February 7, 2006.