Economics 1015
Readings

• How Trade Barriers Keep Africans Adrift: West's Farm Subsidies Drive Ghanians Out of Rice Market, Fueling Poverty and Migration By JULIANE VON REPPERT-BISMARCK
• Unfunded State and Local Health Costs: $1.4 Trillion. Cato Institute. 2006
• P=MV/Q by By ROBERT D. MCTEER. WSJ January 23, 2007
• GDP 3rd Quarter 2006. U.S. Dept. of Commerce
• Michael Spence. “What Drives High Growth Rates?” WSJ (2007)
• Joe Haslag on Earnings Tax (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2007)
• “What Should Bill Gates Do?” WSJ Jan. 2007
• The Parking Fix: Free-market economists are overhauling a frustration of American life -- and erasing what may be one of the last great urban bargains. By CONOR DOUGHERTY WSJ February 3, 2007
• As Two Economists Debate Markets, The Tide Shifts WSJ 2004
• The Cost of Coverage By Amy Finkelstein, February 28, 2007; WSJ
• Economic Report of the President 2007.  Ch. 4 “Fiscal Challenges Facing Medicare”
• Economic Report of the President 2006  Ch. 4.  “Improving Incentives in Health Care Spending.”
• Devon Patrick and John Goodman. “The Market for Medical Care: Why You Don’t Know the Price; Why You Don’t Know the Quality; And What Can Be Done About It” National Center for Policy Analysis, #2967 (March 2007).
• Antos and Rivkin. Restoring Fiscal Sanity: The Health Spending Challenge. Washington DC: Brookings. 2007.
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 6
• John Goodman. “Perverse Incentives in Health Care.” WSJ April 5, 2007
• President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security (2001)
• Social Security & Medicare Trustees 2006 Annual Report (short version)
• Gary Becker.  "A Political Case for Social Security Reform."  WSJ (Feb. 15, 2005)
• How to Replace the Earnings Tax in Kansas City by Joseph H. Haslag