International Political Economy (Spring 2009)

Over the last week or so, I’ve come across several interesting articless, &c. There’s also a very interesting interview with Barry Eichengreen in the Berkeley series “Conversations with History.”

And a number of you have continued on the discussion board also posting things. I encourage you all to follow up those links as well. (Great posts, ladies & gents!)

So, this might provide interesting summer reading and listening.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5e61e20c-0f44-11de-ba10-0000779fd2ac.html

http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13576264&source=hptextfeature

http://www.reason.com/news/show/28241.html

And if you think I’m keen on Locke, see what Hamilton scholar Robert Wright named his son:

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB122186662036058787-lMyQjAxMDI4MjIxMDgyNjA2Wj.html

Have a great summer!

I’m sure a lot of you are curious how to insert the £–because, like me, you’re always using the £ as your standard currency example. Here’s how to do it:

Mac: Option + 3

Windows: ALT key then press 0 1 6 3

I’ve had mixed luck with the latter. (Typical M$ requires several extra keystrokes for no good reason!)

Here is a link to other useful shortcuts for the :

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Symbols-on-a-Mac

We’ll talk about the Washington Consensus tomorrow. Here are two related links:

http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/paper.cfm?ResearchID=488

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/09/AR2009040903241.html

If you have trouble with that second link, you can access the material through Eres.