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.
- Virtual Worlds: A First Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier
By Edward Castronova. Reading for week of March 18th - Political Institutions, Policy Choice, and the Survival of Leaders
By: Bueno de Mesquita et al.Reading for week of March 11, 2003 - Clientelism, Credibility and Democracy
By: Philip Keefer. Reading for the week of March 4, 2003. - Islam and Authoritarianism
By Steven Fish. Reading for week of February 25, 2003. - International Economics: Theory and Practice- Chapter 6
By Paul R. Kurgman and Maurice Obstfeld. Reading for week of February 18,2003. - The First Property Rights Revolution
By Samuel Bowles and Jung-Kyoo Choi. Reading for the week of January 28, 2003. - Lobbying and Legislative Bargaining
By: Elhanan Helpman and Torsten Persson. Reading for week of January 21, 2003. - Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade?
By: Andrew Rose. Reading for week of January 14, 2003. - How Does Natural Resource Wealth Influence Civil War?
By: Michael Ross, Reading for the week January 7, 2003 - Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development
By: Dani Rodrik, Arvind Subramanian, Francesco Trebbi. Reading for December 17, 2002 - States and Markets: The Advantage of an Early Start
by Valerie Bockstette, Louis Putterman
Reading for week of December 10, 2002 - Homo Economicus Goes to War: Methodological Invidividualism, Rational Choice and the Political Economy of War
By C. Cramer, University of London, UK. Reading for week of November 26th, 2002. - Order, Disorder and Economic Change: Latin America vs. North America
by Douglass C. North, William Summerhill, and Barry R. Weingast. Reading for Week of October 1st, 2002 - How Do Self-enforcing Institutions Endogenously Change? Institutional Reinforcement and Quasi-Parameters
By: Avner Greif and David D. Laitin. Reading for week of November 19th,2002. - Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics
By: Ed Leamer. Reading for week of November 12th,2002 - Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-Run Economic Performance
By: Deepak Lal. Reading for week of November 5th,2002 - Fiscal Decentralization, Legislative Institutions and Particularistic Spending
By: Alberto Diaz-Cayeros et al. Reading for week of October 29th, 2002 - Explaining Murderous Ethnic Cleansing
By Michael Mann. Reading for week of October 22th, 2002 - Tropics, Germs, and Crops:How Endowments Influence Economic Development
By William Easterly and Ross Levine. Reading for Week of Oct. 15th, 2002 - The Roots of Latin American Protectionism: Looking Before the Great Depression
By: John H. Coatsworth and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Reading for Week of Oct. 8th,2002 - Odyssey Through Copyrights Vicarious Defenses
By: David Nimmer. Reading for week of Sept. 24th, 2002 - A Vision of the Growth Process
By: Arnold C. Harberger. Reading for week of September 10th,2002 - The Deaths of Manufacturing Plants
By Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen .Reading for the week of September 17th,2002 - A Theory of Collective Reputations (with applications to the persisitence of corruptions and to firm quality)
By: Jean Tirole, Reading for the week of May 12th, 2002. - Biogeography and Long-Run Economic Development
By: Douglas Hibbs and Ola Olsson. Reading for the week of May 7th, 2002.