EP 405: Essential Readings for the mid-semester examination

[Raghav Taparia]

Here, the attached readings are numbered from 9 to 14, for continuity. These six readings and the 4 others mentioned below are the total of 10 readings which will constitute the mid-semester examination. There must be no confusion about this.
EP 405: The mid-semester examination will include these 10 readings. The four readings not attached are the following: Pat Hudson's is available in the internet. I have given its web page address. Gareth Austin's can be xeroxed by students from a copy which will be kept in CESP office for borrowing for xerox. AJR and RC Allen are in journals which are easily available in JNU library.
Please note:The questions in the mid semester will cover all these 10 readings. All questions and hence all these readings are compulsory:  

1.North-Wallis-Weingast 

2.  North-Weingast

3. Clark

4.  Sussman-Yafey

5. Acemoglu-Robinson

6. Mokyr, Industrial Revolution 

7.      D. Acemoglu, S. Johnson & J. Robinson, ‘Reversal of Fortune: geography and institutions in the making of the modern world income distribution’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (Nov 2002), 1231-79.

8.   Gareth Austin, 'The "Reversal of fortune" thesis and the compression of history: perspectives from African and comparative economic history', Journal of International Development, 2008, 20 (8), pp.996-1027.

9.   R.C. Allen, 'Why the Industrial Revolution was British: commerce, induced invention and the scientific revolution‘, The Economic History Review, May 2011, Vol 64, Issue 2.

10.    Pat Hudson, Industrial Revolution A New History 12 July 2011 (web) http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/the_industrial_revolution_a_new_history

Best wishes,

PRADIPTA CHAUDHURY