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# # Appendix: Optional Readings on Macroeconomics from 1829-2009
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# * Six things to read:
#     * John Stuart Mill (1829), "On the Influence of Consumption on Production" <https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mill-john-stuart/1844/unsettled.htm>
#     * Walter Bagehot (1873), _Lombard Street_ <http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4359>
#     * John Hicks (1937), "Mr. Keynes and the 'Classics': A Suggested Interpretation", _Econometrica_ <http://web.econ.unito.it/bagliano/macro3/hicks_econ37.pdf>
#     * Ben Bernanke (1983), "Nonmonetary Effects of the Financial Crisis in the Propagation of the Great Depression" _American Economic Review_ 73, pp. 257-276, <http://www.jstor.org/view/00028282/di950033/95p00602/0>
#     * John B. Taylor (2000), "Reassessing Discretionary Fiscal Policy," _Journal of Economic Perspectives_ Vol. 14, No. 3 (Summer, 2000), pp. 21-36 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2646917>
#     * Alan Auerbach and William Gale (2009), "Activist Fiscal Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity" <http://www.nber.org/papers/w15407.pdf>
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# Plus inspirational quote: Tyler Cowen: “Useful macroeconomics is common sense plus accounting identities”
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# If you understand how things add up and you also use your common sense, you should be able to get quite far in your understanding of business cycles from that alone...
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