This course fulfills the Writing Intensive requirement for the Economics major. . You must choose tw ...
This course fulfills the Writing Intensive requirement for the Economics major. . You must choose two books from the list below. You will write an essay describing how these books relate to the themes we discussed in class. The paper should start with an introduction that lays out what books you have chosen and briefly describes their main hypotheses. You should then spend a significant portion of the paper overviewing the main arguments of the books. Please explain what the arguments are and how the author(s) substantiate the arguments. Importantly, you must then discuss how do these arguments relate to the material we’ve covered in class? Finally, evaluate whether the books you chose complement each other or are they critiques? The paper should be typed in a reasonable font. Double spaced with reasonable margins. The paper should be around 15 pages (this is only a guideline). Timur Kuran. The long divergence: How Islamic law held back the Middle East. Princeton University Press, 2012 Deirdre N McCloskey. The bourgeois virtues: Ethics for an age of commerce. University of Chicago Press, 2010 Kenneth Pomeranz. The great divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy, volume 28. Princeton University Press, 2009 Philip T Hoffman. Why did Europe conquer the world? Princeton University Press, 2017 Walter Scheidel. The great leveler: Violence and the history of inequality from the stone age to the twenty-first century. Princeton University Press, 2018 Robert C Allen. The British industrial revolution in global perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2009 Joel Mokyr. The Enlightened economy an economic history of Britain 1700-1850. Yale University Press, 2010. Jared Rubin. Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West got rich and the Middle East did not. Cambridge University Press, 2017 Noel D Johnson and Mark Koyama. Persecution & toleration: The long road to religious freedom. Cambridge University Press, 2019 Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty. Penguin Press, 2019 Douglass C North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R Weingast. Violence and social orders: A conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history. Cambridge University Press, 2009 Jared M Diamond. Guns, germs and steel: a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years. Random House, 1998
