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So You Want to Learn About Economics

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The coolest papers I know

Economics can be intimidating to get into from the outside. I want to show you why I get so excited about economics. I have 11 papers that make me go “woah”, and notes on each of them. Before anything else, here’s the list: Friedrich von Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society”, 1945 (*) R.A. Radford, “The Economic Organization of a POW Camp”, 1945 (*) Klein, Crawford, and Alchian, “Vertical Integration, Appropriable Rents, and the Competitive Contracting Process”, 1977 (*) Clark, “Why Isn’t the Whole World Developed? Lessons from the Cotton Mills”, 1987 (*) Bulow and Roberts, “The…

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