Category: Economics

I had to present on path dependence recently. Paul David’s famous QWERTY paper (American Economic Review P&P, 1985) was covered, as was Paul Pierson’s Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics (American Political…

I wrote up an “Introduction to Social Science” reading list for interested students in Econ 101. I printed out ten copies and brought them along on Friday, and allocated them on the basis of who…