Econ 210a: Fall 2006: Trade and Industriousness: Recommended, Highly Optional, Readings

Recommended (but not required: only for those of you with great interest and copious amounts of spare time) readings for October 25:

• Adam Smith (1776), The Wealth of Nations, entire http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWNtoc.html
• Douglass North and Barry Weingast (1989), "Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England," Journal of Economic History 49:4 (December), pp. 803-832 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28198912%2949%3A4%3C803%3ACACTEO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
• William Baumol (1990), "Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive," Journal of Political Economy 98:5(1) (Oct), pp. 893-921 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-3808%28199010%2998%3A5%3C893%3AEPUAD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
• Peter Temin (2001), "A Market Economy in the Early Roman Empire," Journal of Roman Studies 91, pp. 169-181. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0075-4358%282001%2991%3C169%3AAMEITE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N *Kevin H. O'Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson (2001), "After Columbus: Explaining the Global Trade Boom 1500-1800" (Cambridge: NBER Working Paper w8186, March) http://papers.nber.org/w8186