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.
- Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in Economics
By Vernon L. Smith. Reading for week of October 7, 2003. - The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
By Robert A. Pape. Reading for September 30th, 2003. - Openness and Aggressive Monetary Policy: An Empirical Study of Inflation Volatility and Persistence
By: Melody Lo, Sunny Wong, and Kim Granato. This is the reading for September 23rd, 2003. - Democracy and National Economic Performance: The Preference for Stability
By Dennis P. Quinn and John T. Woolley. Reading for week of September 16, 2003. - Endogenous Constitutions
By: Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni Reading for the week of September 9, 2003. - Voter Competence in Direct Legislation Elections
By: Elisabeth R. Gerber and Arther Lupia. Reading for the week of August 19th, 2003. - Making Capitalism Work for Everyone
By: Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales. Reading for the week of August 5th, 2003. - How Love Evolved from Sex and Gave Birth to Intelligence and Human Nature
By Cort Pedersen, M.D. Reading for week of July 29, 2003. - Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College
By: Stacy Berg Dale and Alan Krueger. Reading for the week of July 22nd, 2003. - Some Lessons From Transaction-Cost Politics for Less-Developed Countries
By: Avinash Dixit. Reading for the week of July 15th, 2003. - The Evolution of the Social Contract
By Adam Gifford, Jr. Reading for week of July 8, 2003 - A Continuous Schumpeterian Conception of Democracy
By: James Raymond Vreeland article for July 1,2003 - Why Have Women Become Left Wing? The Political Gender Gap and the Decline in Marriage
By Lena Edlund and Rohini Pande. Reading for week of June 24, 2003. - Managing Turbulence in the World Economy
By Dani Rodrik. Reading for week of July 17, 2003. - Political Regimes and Economic Growth
By Adam Przeworski et al. Reading for the week of June 10, 2003. - The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime
By John Donohue and Steven Levitt. Reading for week of June 3,2003. - The Political Economy of Growth: Democracy and Human Capital
By Matt Baum and David Lake. Reading for week of May 27,2003. - An Economic Analysis of a Drug Selling Gang's Finances
By Steven Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. Reading for week of May 6, 2003. - Economic Globalization and Democracy: An Empirical Analysis
by Auan Li and Rafael Reuveny. Reading for week of May 6,2003. - The Effect of IMF Programs on Economic Growth
by James Vreeland and Adam Pzreworski. Reading for week of April 29, 2003 - History, Institutions, and Economic Performance:The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India
By Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer. Reading for week of April 22, 2003. - Why the Welfare State Looks Like a Free Lunch
By: Peter H. Lindert,Reading for the week of April 15th, 2003 - People's Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes
By: Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales - The Golden Age of European Growth Reconsidered
By Peter Temin. Reading for week of April 1, 2003. - How Did Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Become Heavily Indebted? Reveiwing Two Decades of Debt Relief
By William Easterly. Reading for week of March 25, 2003.