USEFUL LINKS

Government in markets and social spending
FT Economists’ Forum
Marginal Revolution
Becker-Posner Blog
"The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations" (C. A. Hidalgo, B. Klinger, A.-L. Barabasi, R. Hausmann)
"The Structure of the Product Space and the Evolution of Comparative Advantage" (R. Hausmann and B. Klinger)
"Doomed to Choose: Industrial Policy as Predicament" (R. Hausmann and D. Rodrik)
"What have we learned from market design?" (Alvin Roth)
"Urban Colossus: Why is New York America's Largest City?" (Edward Glaeser)
"Reinventing Boston" (Edward Glaeser)
"Rethinking Social Insurance" (Martin Feldstein)

Institutions and good governance
"The Primacy of Institutions" (Dani Rodrik and Arvind Subramanian) in Finance & Development (June 2003)
"The Natural State: The Political-Economy of Non-Development" (Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast)
"Chapter 1 of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance" (Douglass C. North)
"Order in the Jungle" (The Economist, 13Mar08) – subscription required
"What makes Profit-Maximization Possible" (Martin Wolf)
World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets (World Bank)

Behavioural economics
Nudge (Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein)
Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely)
FT Undercover Economist Blog by Tim Harford
"Behavioural Economics" (Sendhil Mullainathan and Richard H. Thaler)
"Behavioural Economics: Seven Principles for Policy Makers" (Emma Dawnay and Hetan Shah)
"The Marketplace of Perceptions" (Craig Lambert)

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