Textbooks

<--------------------------------------------------> This is a posting to ECONHIST.TEACH, a list operated by The Cliometric Society (csociety@cs.muohio.edu). <--------------------------------------------------> This is a response to Richard Sutch's point about coverage of post-World War II events... I have found two textbooks on this subject: Gene Smiley, The American Economy in the Twentieth Century, South-Western Publishing. Raburn M. Williams, The Politics of Boom and Bust in Twentieth-Century American: A Macroeconomic History, West Publishing. I tend to use articles and monographs on this material rather than books. For example, I use Walter Heller, New Dimensions of Political Economy, to give the students a feeling for economic policy in the 1960s, rather than using an article which simply describes what happened in 1964, etc. I then contrast this with Robert Lucas's article "Rules, Discretion and the Role of the Economic Advisor" and C. Romer's AER article on the stabilization of the postwar economy. Louis ================================================================ Louis Johnston Department of Economics and Management Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082 (507) 933-7436 ljohnsto@gac.edu <----------------------------------------------------------> To post a message, send it to ECONHIST.TEACH@cs.muohio.edu. For more information, send the message "info ECONHIST.TEACH" to lists@cs.muohio.edu. >