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Gavin Cameron's lectures for HT 2007:

·  Economic Growth in the Golden Age     pdf

·  Economic Growth after the Fall     pdf

Tutorial readings for OECD option paper.
Other readings for OECD option paper.

Jenny Corbett's lectures:
Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4

Gavin Cameron's lectures for MT 2004:

·  Economic Growth in the Golden Age     pdf

·  Economic Growth after the Fall     pdf

·  European Monetary Union     pdf

·  The Trouble with Bubbles     pdf

You may also find the following paper interesting: 'Macroeconomic Performance in the Bretton Woods Era, And After', in Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Winter 2002 issue.

Here are some readings for these lectures:

  1. Lecture 1: Economic Growth in the Golden Age
    • William Baumol, Richard Nelson and Edward Wolff, Convergence of Productivity (OUP: Oxford), 1994, especially chapters 2 (Maddison) and 4 (Abramovitz).
    • Broadberry, S. (1994) 'Technological Leadership and Productivity Leadership in Manufacturing Since the Industrial Revolution: Implications for the Convergence Debate', Economic Journal, 104: 291-302.
    • Crafts, N. and Toniolo, G. (1996) Economic Growth in Europe Since 1945 (CUP: Cambridge) especially chapters 1 (Crafts & Toniolo), 2 (Eichengreen), 5 (Boltho) and 6 (Bean and Crafts).
    • Dowrick, S. and Nguyen, D. (1989) 'OECD comparative economic growth 1950-85: catch-up and convergence', American Economic Review.
    • Flath, D. (2000) The Japanese Economy (OUP: Oxford) chapters 9 and 16.
    • Kindleberger, C. (1967) Europe's Post-war Growth: The Role of the Labour Supply (University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, Michigan).
    • Maddison, A. (1991) Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development (OUP: Oxford), chapter 5.


or

    • Maddison, A. (1987) 'Growth and slowdown in advanced capitalist economics: techniques of quantitative assessment', Journal of Economic Literature.
    • Olson, M. (1982) The Rise and Decline of Nations (New Haven: Yale University Press).
    • Romer, P. (1996) 'Why, Indeed, in America? Theory, History, and Economic Growth', American Economic Review, pp. 202-206: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W5443.pdf
    • Temin, P. (2002) 'The Golden Age of European Growth Reconsidered', European Review of Economic History.
    • Temple, J.(2001) 'Structural change and Europe's Golden Age', Bristol University Economics Discussion Paper 01/519, 2001. download

2.                       Lecture 2: Economic Growth After the Fall
As for lecture 1, and

o                        Bruno, M. and Sachs, J. (1985) Economics of Worldwide Stagflation (Blackwell: Oxford).

o                        Cameron, G. (2003) 'Why did UK manufacturing productivity growth slow down in the 1970s and speed up in the 1980s?', Economica, February, vol. 70, no. 277, pp. 121-141. download

o                                          Cameron, G. and Wallace, C. 'Macroeconomic Performance in the Bretton Woods Era, And After', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Winter, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 479-494. download

o                                          Crafts, N. and Mills, T. (2000) 'After the Golden Age: A Perspective on Growth Rates that Speeded Up, Slowed Down, and Still Differ', The Manchester School, 2000, 68-91.

o                                          Zvi Griliches 'Productivity, R&D, and the Data Constraint', The American Economic Review, March 1994, pp. 1-23.

3.                       Lecture 3: European Monetary Union

o                        Artis, M. and Nixson, F. (2001) The Economics of the European Union (OUP: Oxford) 3rd ed, chapters 12 (Artis and Bladen-Hovell) and 13 (Ongena and Winkler).

o                        Bernanke, B., Laubach, T., Mishkin, F. and Posen, A. (1999) Inflation Targeting (Princeton University Press: Princeton), chapter 12.

o                        De Grauwe, P. (2000) Economics of Monetary Union (OUP: Oxford), 4th ed.

o                        Economic Policy (1998) Issue No 26 especially papers by Dornbusch et al, Eichengreen & Wyplosz and Obstfeld & Peri.

o                        El-Agraa, A. (2001) The European Union: Economics and Policies(Prentice-Hall: Harlow) 6th edition, chapter 17 (Mayes).

o                        Forder, J. and Huhne, C. (2001) Both Sides of the Coin (London: Profile Books), 2nd edition.

o                        H.M. Treasury (1997) UK Membership of the Single Currency: An Assessment of the Five Economic Tests (H.M. Treasury: London): http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/mediastore/otherfiles/single.pdf

o                        Krugman, P. (1989) 'The case for stabilizing exchange rates' Oxford Review of Economic Policy, reprinted in Tim Jenkinson ed. (1996) Readings in Macroeconomics, 1st edition (OUP: Oxford) chapter 5.

o                        Krugman, P. and Obstfeld, M. (1997) International Economics: Theory and Policy (Addison Wesley: New York) 4th ed., chapters 20.

o                        Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 1998, Vol 14, No 3, issue on EMU (particularly Assessment by Allsopp & Vines, papers by Eichengreen, Artis and Maclennan, Muellbauer & Stephens).

o                        Obstfeld, M. (1997) 'Europe's Gamble', Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

o                        P Krugman (1995) Currencies and Crises (MIT) chapter 11.

Here's how to print multiple slides from Acrobat on one page:
i. double-click on the pdf lecture link in your web-browser. This should start Acrobat within your browser.
ii. go to Page Setup in the File menu
iii. in the Page Setup dialog box, click on Printer (which is in the bottom right-hand corner).
iv. In the Page Setup Printer dialog box, click on Properties
v. In the Properties dialog box, click on Features.
v. In the Features dialog box, there should be a multiple pages per sheet option.

These should work, but obviously might depend upon which browser and version of Acrobat you are using (I'm using Internet Explorer 5.0 and Acrobat Reader 4.0).

Click here for the Oxford Economics Dept web-page for this paper.

 

 


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