Readings and My Notes on Macroeconomics, Finance and Econometrics


GROWTH THEORIES AND BUSINESS CYCLES
  • My essay titled Productivity Paradox can be found here.
  • My essay titled Growth Empirics can be found here.
  • My notes titled Solow Growth Model can be found here.
  • My essay titled Central Banking objective and Limitations of the Real Business Cyle can be found here.
  • My critical essay titled Does Macroeconomics needs Micro Foundations is here.
  • My critical essay titled Monetary Policy and Inflation is here.
  • My Replication Paper on Real Exchnage Rate and Nominal Exchange Rate is here.
  • My Notes on Price Rigidities and Nominal Rigidities is here.
  • My critical essay on Conventional Monetary Policy and Unconventional Monetary Policy is here.

POLITICAL ECONOMY
  • My essay on Democratization and Economic Development can be found here.
  • My notes on Capitalism can be found here.
  • My critical essay on Approches to Political Economy can be found here.
  • My critical essay on Adam Smith’s Theory of Natural and Market Prices can be found here.
  • My notes on Centrally Planned Economy can be found here.
  • My essay on Political Economy can be found here.
  • My essay on Austrian School of Economics can be found here.
  • My essay on Capital Gains Tax can be found here.
  • My essay on Globalization can be found here.
  • My essay on Market Strcuture and Firm’s R&D activity can be found here.
  • My essay on Economically Disruptive Innovation of Blockchain and Bitcoin can be found here.
  • My essay on Spillover Effect of Mass Layoff can be found here.
  • My critique on the Inequalities of Gender can be found here.
  • My paper on Why did countries grow or not can be found here.
  • My essay on the Relationship between Gender and Global Political Economy can be found here.
  • My essay on Artificial Intelligence and Economic Decision Making can be found here.
  • My essay on Economics of Competition and Strategy can be found here.

LABOUR MARKET
  • My essay on Female Labor Force Participation in India can be found here.
  • My paper titled Labor Market Persistence During Recession can be found here.
  • My notes on Gender Difference in the Labor Market can be found here.
  • My essay on Economic History and Industrial Development can be found here.
  • My piece on Randomized CT can be found here.
  • My notes on Beveridge curve can be found here.
  • My essay on Minimum Wage and Unemployment can be found here.
  • My essay on Information assymetry and Unemployment Insurance can be found here.

DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
  • My notes on Income Inequality and Multidimensional Poverty Index is here.
  • My essay on Inequality in the United States is here.
  • My piece on Trends on Income Inequality in China is here.
  • My paper on Informational Assymetry and Unemployment Insurance is here.
  • My essay on Environmental Economics is here.
  • My piece on The Contribution of Human Capital to China’s Economic Growth is here.
  • My essay on Problems with Assymetric Information is here.
  • My notes on Empirical Investigation of Foreign Aid can be found here.
  • My paper on Wagners Law is here.
  • My essay on Why has the Income Share of the Top 1 percent Risen in the United States and can be found here.

FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
  • My notes on Efficient Market Hypothesis can be found here.
  • My essay on Speculative Asset Prices can be found here.
  • My paper on Internatinal Correlation Risk can be found here.
  • My notes on Capital Asset Pricing Model is here.
  • My notes on Financial Economic is here.
  • My note on Applied Financial Economterics is here.
  • My notes on Financial Economterics is here.

MICROECONOMIC THEORY
  • My essay on Externalities and Property Rights is here.
  • My essay on Prissoner’s Dilemma is here.
  • My critical Piece of whether Is Carbon Pricing the right approach to Tackle Climate Change is here.
  • My piece on Trade War between China and the United States is here.
  • My notes on Auction Theory can be found here.
  • My notes on Network Externalities is here.
  • My essay on Other Regarding Preferences can be found here.
  • My essay on Signalling in Game Theory can be found here.
  • My critical essay on Adverse Selection can be found here.
  • My essay on whether monopoly should be regulated can be found here.

CRITIQUES OF MACROECONOMICS
  • Paul Romer writes a paper titled “The Trouble with Macroeconomics. The link to the paper is here. It is one of the most scathing critique on the current state of the business cycle status-quo coming from a Nobel Prize winning Economist.
  • Ricardo Reis writes a paper titled “Is something really wrong with macroeconomics? ” The link to the paper is here
  • Stiglitz, J. E. (2018). Where modern macroeconomics went wrongOxford Review of Economic Policy, 34(1-2), 70-106. Another critique from a Nobel Prize winning economist.

NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS THEORY
  • Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications
  • Edited by L. Douglas Kiel and Euel Elliott

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

This book is an excellent starting point, from a general level, in terms of foundations of the underlying framework of non-linear dynamics. Though there are four parts to the book, but the first part, which has a total of five chapters, gives an excellent analysis of the fundamentals.

  1. Exploring Nonlinear Dynamics with a Spreadsheet: A Graphical View of Chaos for Beginners
    L. Douglas Kiel and Euel Elliott
  2. Probing the Underlying Structure in Dynamical Systems: An Introduction to Spectral Analysis
    Michael McBurnett
  3. Measuring Chaos Using the Lyapunov Exponent
    Thad A. Brown
  4. The Prediction Test for Nonlinear Determinism
    Ted Jaditz
  5. From Individuals to Groups: The Aggregation of Votes and Chaotic Dynamics
    Diana Richards

  • Nonlinear Dynamics (De Gruyter Textbook)

Axelle Amon, Marc Lefranc

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

The description is under progress.


  • Chaos Theory Tamed

Garnett P. Williams

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

The description is under progress.


The books that are given are too much on the technical end. I would urge anyone to read James Gleick’s book, Chaos: making a new science

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