Beginning Econ at UChicago?

White_Rabbit
Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:19:57 +0000

Well I’ve taken two Econ classes at the junior college level. I also spend alot of time reading books on Econ. He asked me what I was interested in and I said Developmental Econ and Econ History among other things. I said that I had read several books on development including Sach’s The End of Poverty and Development as Freedom by Sen. I said I also really liked Ferguson’s stuff on Econ History. I asked him if he had any recommendations. So he said that he prefers papers to books and that I might find one of his papers interesting. So he rummaged in a case/bookshelf and handed me “Health as human capital: Synthesis and extensions.” I’ve been reading it, but it is about thirty pages and at times math heavy.