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ECON 191 Syllabus (Spring 2021)
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ECON 191 Economic Thought of Nobel Prize Winners

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Prize Winners' Lectures, Biographies, and Supplemental Reading

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Week 1: Introduction
  • Ragnar Frisch (1969)
  • Jan Tinbergen (1969)

Week 2: Micro Foundations
  • Kenneth J. Arrow (1972)
    • Arrow, Kenneth J. "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care." The American Economic Review, 53(5), 1963, pp. 941-973.
  • John R. Hicks (1972)

Week 3: Nonmarket Behavior
  • Ronald H. Coase (1991)
    • Coase, Ronald. "The Nature of the Firm." Economica, 4(16), 1937, pp. 386-405.
  • Gary Becker (1992)

Week 4: Information
  • George J. Stigler (1982)
    • Stigler, George J. and Gary S. Becker. "De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum." The American Economic Review, 67(2), 1977, pp. 76-90.
  • A. Michael Spence (2001)

Week 5: Labor Markets
  • Peter A. Diamond (2010)
  • Dale T. Mortensen (2010)
  • Christopher A. Pissarides (2010)

Week 6: Game Theory
  • John F, Nash, Jr. (1994)
  • Robert J. Aumann (2005)
  • Thomas C. Schelling (2005)

Week 7: Macro Foundations
  • Paul A. Samuelson (1970)
  • Edmund S. Phelps (2006)

Week 8: Monetary Theory (Phillips Curve Debate)
  • Milton Friedman (1976)
  • Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (1995)

Week 9: Growth Theory
  • Simon Kuznets (1971)
  • Tjalling C. Koopmans (1975)
  • Robert M. Solow (1987)

Week 11: International Trade
  • Bertil Ohlin (1977)
  • Paul Krugman (2008)

Week 12: Political Economy
  • Friedrich von Hayek (1974)
    • Hayek, F.A. "The Use of Knowledge in Society." The American Economic Review, 35(4), 1945, pp. 519-530.
  • James M. Buchanan, Jr. (1986)

Week 13: Institutional
  • Elinor Ostrom (2009)
  • Oliver E. Williamson (2009)

Week 14: Development
  • Amartya Sen (1998)
  • Angus Deaton (2015)

Week 15: Experimental
  • Vernon Smith (2002)
  • Richard Thaler (2017)

Week 16: Missing Giants
  • Linda Datcher Loury
    • Loury, Linda Datcher. "Some Contacts Are More Equal Than Others: Informal Networks, Job Tenure, and Wages." Journal of Labor Economics, 24(2), 2006.
  • Joan Robinson
    • Robinson, Joan. "The Production Function and the Theory of Capital." The Review of Economic Studies, 21(2), 1953, pp. 81-106. [SJSU Library TBD]


Optional: Explanatory Videos

Instructor's Note: I may add articles to this page over the course of the semester. I will notify users that content has changed and will also mention the update in class.​ ​

Week 2: Micro Foundations
  • Allais Paradox (optional)
  • Hicksian Demand (optional)
  • Arrow's Impossibility Theorem (optional)

Week 6: Game Theory
  • Bayes' Theorem
  • Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating
  • Game Theory 101: Focal Points (YouTube)

Week 78 Monetary Theory
  • The Phillips Curve may be broken for good (The Economist)
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