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Reading the Economic History Reading List of the Very Sharp Pseudoerasmus

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Well, the stars have aligned. I will be teaching nothing but economic history next year: Survey (graduate students), 20th Century (undergraduates), American (undergraduates), and European (graduate students). This provides, I think, an opportunity for a complete rethink of the curriculum: what to teach them and how to teach it... Searching for inspiration, random googling for things I have not read before leads me to the [economic history reading list](https://pseudoerasmus.com/economic-history-books/) of the smart-and-mysterious Pseudoerasmus, who thinks like a very sharp Jeffrey Williamson student and who claims to dwell in Chokurdakh in the Sakha Republic, population 2,367: Yes, that Chokurdakh. You have heard of it: So let me run through his reading list and pick up things he lists--and things that his listings make me think of--that I think have a very high value/length ratio: **Very Short Introductions:** * Robert Allen: *Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction* : **Yes, definitely** * Partha Dasgupta: *Economics: A Very Short Introduction* : **Not on Pseudoerasmus's list, but it might be good to assign an introduction to economics--and this, I think, is it** * Avinash Dixit:* *Microeconomics: A Very Short Introduction* **Or possibly this would be the better introduction to economics as a way of...

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