Norman Borlaug

http://www.normanborlaug.org/

"For over a half century, the scientific and humanitarian achievements of Dr. Norman Borlaug (Nobel Peace Prize winner, Congressional Gold Medal Winner, and recipient of over 50 honorary Doctorate Degrees) has kept starvation at bay for millions of people in third world countries. Dr. Borlaug, "Father of the Green Revolution" continues his battle against starvation in Africa."

G. Hardin Society:

http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/index.html

"The Garrett Hardin Society is dedicated to the preservation of the writings and ideas of Garrett James Hardin. A common thread throughout his work is an interest in bioethics. Trained as an ecologist and microbiologist and a Professor of Human Ecology at the University of California for more than thirty years, he is best known for his 1968 essay, The Tragedy of the Commons. "

P. L. Bernstein: Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story Of Risk

http://www.businessweek.com/1996/43/b349881.htm

"Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it. This is a lively, panoramic book that includes tales of everyone from Omar Khayyam to Florence Nightingale to Daniel Ellsberg. Khayyam, the poet, was also a mathematician. Nightingale, the nurse, once offered to fund a chair in applied statistics at Oxford University. And Ellsberg, the Defense Dept. analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers, specialized in the behavioral psychology of risk-taking."

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CHAPTER 4

http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/chap4.htm

Punctuation Made Simple

http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~olson/pms/intro.html

D. Acemoglu: Introduction to Modern Economic Growth

http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/books

United Nations Millenium Development Goals Indicators

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/default.aspx

MIT: OpenCourseWare

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Writing Academic Papers

http://www.rddirect.org.uk/documents/writingpapers.html#_Toc49051702

Online Economics Textbooks

http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/newbooks.htm

Open Directory Project: Economics

http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Economics//

S. Martin: Economics Quotes

http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/faculty/smartin/equotes/equote.htm

Einstein, Albert
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Solow, Robert M.
But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

Bresnahan, Timothy F.
Economists ought to know about the economy.

Caves, Richard
Constrained-maximization problems are mother's milk to the well-trained economist.

Davis, Richard M.
It is commonplace that economists spend a discouraging proportion of their working time in controversy over definition.

Keynes, John Maynard
Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy compared with the economic interpretation of the complex and incompletely known facts of experience, and lead one a very little way towards establishing useful results.

R. Felder: Learning Styles

http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Learning_Styles.html

"Students preferentially take in and process information in different ways: by seeing and hearing, reflecting and acting, reasoning logically and intuitively, analyzing and visualizing, steadily and in fits and starts. Teaching methods also vary. Some instructors lecture, others demonstrate or lead students to self-discovery; some focus on principles and others on applications; some emphasize memory and others understanding...This site contains resources for a model of learning styles generally referred to as the Felder-Silverman model. The model was originally formulated by Dr. Felder in collaboration with Dr. Linda K. Silverman, an educational psychologist, for use by college instructors and students in engineering and the sciences, although it has subsequently been applied in a broad range of disciplines. "

The Apple-Cinnamon Cheerios War

J. Hausman's objection to T. Bresnahan:
http://www.stanford.edu/~tbres/research/reply%20to%20bresnahan.pdf

T. Bresnahan's response to J. Hausman
http://www.stanford.edu/~tbres/research/hausman%20recomment.pdf

D. McCloskey: Economical Writing

http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/pdf/Article_86.pdf

D. Rodrik's Weblog: Unconventional thoughts on economic development and globalization

http://rodrik.typepad.com/

G. Mankiw's Blog: Random Observations for Students of Economics

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/

S.A. Socolofsky: How to write a research journal article in engineering and science

http://www.ifh.uni-karlsruhe.de/lehre/dokkurs/gutes-schreiben/paper_how-to.pdf

PBS TV Series "Free to Choose" by Milton Friedman

http://miltonfriedman.blogspot.com/

Traffic Rankings for Major Business and Economics Websites

http://www.gongol.com/lists/bizeconsites/

Jokes about economists and economics

http://netec.wustl.edu/JokEc.html

JokEc is a collection of professional humor for the benefit of economists as well as non-economists.

Nobel Laureates in Economics

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/

PBS: The Proof

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/

For over 350 years, some of the greatest minds of science struggled to prove what was known as Fermat's Last Theorem -- the idea that a certain simple equation had no solutions. Now hear from the man who spent seven years of his life cracking the problem, read the intriguing story of an 18th century woman mathematician who hid her identity in order to work on Fermat's Last Theorem, and demonstrate that a related equation, the Pythagorean Theorem, is true.

PBS: Trillion Dollar Bet

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stockmarket/formula.html

MERTON MILLER: When I saw the formula I knew enough about it to know that this is the answer. This solved the ancient problem of risk and return in the stock market. It was recognized by the profession for what it was as a real tour de force.

H. Varian: How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/how.pdf

J. Shewchuk: Giving an Academic Talk

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/speaking.html

D. J. Pannell: Prose, psychopaths and persistence

Prose, psychopaths and persistence: Personal perspectives on publishing

http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/dpannell/prose.htm

K. Choi: How To Publish in Top Journals

http://www.roie.org/how.htm

G. Mankiw: My Rules of Thumb

http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/mankiw/papers/My_Rules_of_Thumb.pdf

Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr

www.astro.washington.edu/astro480/To_CCD/WilliamStrunk.pdf