黄春兴：经济学文献阅读与写作 Reading and Writing in Economics

黄春兴台湾清华讲义 ECON500500 2007/09/12 经济学文献阅读与写作 Reading and Writing in Economics 研一必修，3学分 时间：R2R3R4，地点：人社院A401 教师：黄春兴 (人社院A403，Tel: 5742890 Email: cshwang@mx.nthu.edu.tw) 一、课程说明： 本课程在于提升经济学研究所硕士班学生的两项能力： 1.对经济学领域之发展的全面性认识； 2.综述经济概念与经济文献的写作能力。 二、上课教材与指定书籍： 本课程将采用Mark Skousen的The Making of Modern Economics（New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2001），简洁回 顾经济思想的发展，并将取材著名经济学家回顾其研究生涯所发表的前瞻性文章，深入理解这些领域的重要性及其局限。此外，同学们亦得参加每周二的系研讨会，认识经济学各领域的最新发展。 三、教学与成绩考核：  每周之第一小时的上课内容为Mark Skousen一书。修课同学将分成三组（每组5-6人)，各组轮流报告各章内 容。我会于上课时就该组中随机抽出一人单独报告，成绩则算为该组各成员之个人成绩。  每周之第二与第三小时将讨论著名经济学家之文章。我将分配教学进度之文章，让修课同学在课堂上报告， 然后开放课堂讨论。成绩为该同学之个人成绩。  学期中每位同学均得就著名经济学家之文章部分撰写四篇短文章和一篇长文章。短文章为单一经济学家之文章内容的简短摘要，字数必须控制在800-1000间（字数很重要，这是训练课），也必须是一篇结构完整的短文， 不得为条列式；缴交日期为10/4、10/18、11/15、11/29。长文章为一篇综述性文章，题目可就教学进度的几个主 题中任选，字数在2500-3000之间；缴交日期为1/3。  修课同学必须出席每星期二的系研讨会，并于演讲后签名。若缺席三次或以上，本学期该课程成绩以不及格论。每位同学得就其中两次演讲内容撰写摘要报告，其格式与上述短报告相同。两次缴交报告日期分别为 11/1和12/13。  修课同学的学期成绩计算如下表 分组报告 个人报告 短报告 长报告 上课出席 合计 20% 15% 30% 15% 20% 100% 四、教学进度 1. Relevance in Economics Boulding, Kenneth, “Economics as a Moral Science”, The American Economic Review, 1968, pp. 1-12. Harberger, Arnold C., “The Search for Relevance in Economics,” The American Economic Review, 83 (2), May 1993, pp. 1-16. Shultz, George P., “Economics in Action: Ideas, Institutions, Policies”, The American Economic Review, 85(2), May 1995, pp. 1-8. Stein, Herbert, “The Washington Economics Industry”, The American Economic Review, 76 (2), May 1986, pp. 1-9. 2. Task for Economists Debreu, Gerard, “The Mathematization of Economic Theory”, The American Economic Review, 81 (1), May 1991, pp. 1-7. Buchanan, James M., “What Should Economists Do?” Southern Economic Journal, 30, Jan. 1964, pp.213-22. Fauhaber, Gerald, and William J. Baumol, “Economists as Innovators: Practical Products of Theoretical Research”, Journal of Economic Literature, 26, June 1988, pp. 577-600. Vickrey, William, “Today’s Task for Economists”, The American Economic Review, 83(1), March 1993, pp. 1-10. 3. Knowledge and Rationality Hayek, F. A., “Economics and Knowledge“, Economica, 4(13), Feb. 1937, pp. 33-54. Arrow, Kenneth J., “Methodological Individualism and Social Knowledge”, The American Economic Review, 84(2), May 1994, pp. 1-9. Sen, Amartya, “Rationality and Social Choice”, The American Economic Review, 85(1), May 1995, pp. 1-24. Kahneman, Daniel, “Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavior Economics”, The American Economic Review, 93(5), Dec. 2003, pp. 1449-1475. 4. Institutions and Growth Menger, Carl, “On the Origins of Money”, translated by C.A. Foley, Economic Journal, 2, 1892, pp. 239-55. Alchian, Armen, and Harold Demsetz, "The Property Rights Paradigm", Journal of Economic History (1973): 174-83. Coase, Ronald, “The Institutional Structure of Production”, Nobel Lecture in Economic Science, Dec 1991. (Check website) Fogel, Robert W., “Catching up with the Economy”, The American Economic Review, 98(1), March 1999, pp. 1-21. 5. Globalization Schelling, Thomas, “Some Economics of Global Warming”, The American Economic Review, 82(1), March 1992, pp. 1-14. Fischer, Stanley, “Globalization and Its Challenges”, The American Economic Review, 93(2), May 2003, pp. 1-30. 注：Mark Skousen的The Making of Modern Economics电子版，可以在人大经济论坛、经济学家论坛下载。