SJSU Macroeconomics Chapters 3 8 9 Brief Summary & TED Presentation Analysis

A brief written summary of the readings assigned, this written summaries must be at least 400 words long.

Readings:

N. Gregory Mankiw, Macroeconomics, 9th edn, Chapters: 3, 8, 9.

And

1.* Twenty-minute video of Hans Rosling’s TED presentation (February 2006):http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_sh…ver_seen.html.

2.* Stephen Davies, “The History of ‘Underdevelopment’,” The Freeman, 56(June 2006) : 32-33, http://www.fee.org/files/docLib/davies6-06.pdf.

4.* John Tierney, “Betting on the Planet,” New York Times Magazine (2December 1980), http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/02/magazine/betting-on-the-planet.html?pagewanted=1.

5.* James Surowiecki, “Exporting IP,” New Yorker (May 14, 2007);http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2007/05/14/070514ta_talk_surowiecki.

6. Benjamin Powell, “Some Implications of Capital Heterogeneity,” fromHandbook of Contemporary Austrian Economics, edited by Peter J. Boettke(Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010), pp. 124-35.