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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND ECONOMICS 
ECONOMICS 231/232 SUPPLEMENTAL ECONOMICS READINGS Use the first links to go to a set of readings which have been edited specifically for your course. The lower links take you to the original source documents, which in some cases are much longer. |
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| Week Two | Adam Smith (1723-1790), Wealth
of Nations (1776), Book 1, Chapters 1, 2, and 3
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/smith/index.html |
Ann-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781),
Reflections
on the Formation of Wealth (1766, English edition 1793), Sections
1-50
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/turgot/reflecti |
| Week Four | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873),
Principles
of Political Economy (1848, seventh ed. 1871), Book 3, Chapter
2
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/mill/prin/book3/bk3ch02 |
Ann-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781),
Reflections
on the Formation of Wealth (1766, English edition 1793), Sections
51-101
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/turgot/reflecti |
| Week Six | Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929),
Theory
of the Leisure Class (1899), Chapter 4, "Conspicuous Consumption"
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/veblen/leisure/chap04.txt |
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873),
Principles
of Political Economy (1848, seventh ed. 1871), Book 1, Chapter
7
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/mill/prin/book1/bk1ch07 |
| Week Eight | Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929),
"The Limits of Marginal Utility" (1909)
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/veblen/margutil.txt |
Karl Marx (1818-1883), Capital
(1867), Book 1, Chapter 25, Section 3
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/marx/cap1/chap25 [note: Section 3 starts on approximately p. 10 of 73.] |
| Week Ten | Arnold Toynbee (1852-1883), Lectures
on the Industrial Revolution in England (1884)
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/toynbee/indrev |
Adam Smith (1723-1790), Wealth
of Nations (1776), Book 1, Chapter 4
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/smith/index.html |
| Week Twelve | Karl Marx (1818-1883), Capital
(1867), Book 1, Chapter 16
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/marx/cap1/chap16 |
Carl Menger (1841-1921), "On the
Origin of Money" (1892)
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/menger/money.txt |
| Week Fourteen | John Stuart Mill (1806-1873),
Principles
of Political Economy (1848, seventh ed. 1871), Book 2, Chapter
14
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/mill/prin/book2/bk2ch14 |
David Hume (1711-1776), "Of the
Balance of Trade" (1777)
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/hume/ |
| Week Sixteen | The Constitutions of Clarendon
(1164)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/constcla.htm |
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), "On
Lowering the Coins" (1736)
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/swift/index.html |
| 1. "3ll3" = "3LL3" in the McMaster University website addresses. | ||
| 2. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations is also available at http://www.bibliomania.com/NonFiction/Smith/Wealth/index.html | ||
| 3. Please complete the assigned readings prior to the week listed. | ||