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Burda & Wyplosz: Macroeconomics 4e

Part II (Chapters 3-7)

Chapter 3

nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1987/solow-lecture.html
Robert Solow's Nobel lecture is, like everything that man has written, a good read: Note the very interesting Addendum, August 2001 to Solow's Nobel lecture!

www.stanford.edu/~promer/pubs2005.html
Selected nontechnical articles on economic growth by Paul Romer

Chapter 4

www.polwiss.fu-berlin.de/tu/english/database.html
Database Trade Unions and Labor Relations at the Freie Universität Berlin

www.etui-rehs.org/about_us/links/other_useful_links/european_sites
Links page at the European Trade Union Institute site.

www.iza.org/
Professor Klaus Zimmermann's Institute for the Study of Labour in Bonn (especially the vast collection of downloadable discussion papers).

Chapter 5

www.mark-knutson.com/
For the website dedicated to Charles K. Ponzi

www.cnn.com/WORLD/9701/25/albania/
A news report on the political fall-out from the investment scheme that rocked Albania.

www.econlib.org/library/best.html#ricardo
The relevant equivalence quote from David Ricardo. Note you will have to scroll down to see that particular quote.

Chapter 6

www.minneapolisfed.org/pubs/region/96-12/tobin.cfm
Interview with James Tobin where he talks about many things, including the q named after him.

Chapter 7

www.economist.com/markets/Bigmac/index.cfm
PPP students can be given the Big Mac Index from the Economist, no fries.

web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/DATASTATISTICS/ICPEXT/
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The World Bank's International Comparison Program PPP data are not as tasty but they are better for you. More information on the topic at the OECD Purchasing power parities (FAQs) www.oecd.org/topicstatsportal/0,2647,en_2825_495691_1_1_1_1_1,00.html#500300

www.oecd.org/site/0,2865,en_21571361_31596493_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt. The purpose of the site is to facilitate timely and frequent access by a broad range of users to one data set that brings together data that are currently compiled and published by the contributing international agencies (BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank) on components of countries' external debt and international reserve assets.