I spent the holidays in the U.S. so I had time to update my bookshelves with some volumes I wanted to get for a while...
POLITICAL ECONOMY
The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy (Oxford Handbooks of Political Science) By: Barry R. Weingast and Donald Wittman (eds.).
Principled Agents?: The Political Economy of Good Government (Lindahl Lectures on Monetary and Fiscal Policy) By: Timothy BesleyEconomic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
I will be using the Oxford Handbook as one of the main sources for my political economy class this spring term--taking the place of Mueller's previous compilation: its several chapters provide an up to date survey on what has become a quite large literature. Besley and Acemoglu/Robinson will only be suggested readings--these two volumes comprise something like the most current theoretical framework for political/institutional economics.
ECONOMETRICS
Microeconometrics: Methods and Applications By: A. Colin Cameron, Pravin K. Trivedi
Quoting from the authors' website:
"Distinguishing features include emphasis on nonlinear models and robust inference, as well as chapter-length treatments of GMM estimation, nonparametric regression, simulation-based estimation, bootstrap methods, Bayesian methods, stratified and clustered samples, treatment evaluation, measurement error, and missing data."
"Distinguishing features include emphasis on nonlinear models and robust inference, as well as chapter-length treatments of GMM estimation, nonparametric regression, simulation-based estimation, bootstrap methods, Bayesian methods, stratified and clustered samples, treatment evaluation, measurement error, and missing data."
This volume has very nice supplement materials available on the web:
GENERAL INTEREST
Stumbling on Happiness By: Daniel Gilbert
ECONOMIC THOUGHT
The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Knud Haakonssen
Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek by Bruce Caldwell
