The two principal texts for this seminar will be Michael Melvin’s International Money and Finance and Paul Krugman’s The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008.
Each student will also read one of the following ancilliary texts:
- Dean Baker, Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy
- George Cooper, The Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles and the Efficient Markets Fallacy
- Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money
- John Bellamy Foster, The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
- Michael Lewis, Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
- Charles Morris, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
- Kevin Phillips, Bad Money, Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
- Barry Ritholz, Bailout Nation: How Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World
- Robert Shiller, The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Crisis Happened
- George Soros, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
- Martin Wolf, Fixing Global Finance
We will also be following current events in national or international newsmedia.