Phillip LeBel

HonP102-04

Twentieth Century Civilization

As posted on the syllabus, this course contains weblinks to datasets, application modules, and electronic reserve readings. These web-based materials are listed below.

Course Datasets
1.
   "The Relative Size of the U.S. Economy"
2.
   "The G-20 List of Countries"
3.
   "Profile Of East European Countries"
4.
   "Profile of the European Union"
5.
   "Profile of African Economies"
6.
   "Global Trading Groups"
7.
   "The 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index"
8.
   "The 2009 Index of Economic Freedom"
9.
   "Evolution of the Human Development Index"
10.
   "The 2004 Human Development Index"
11.
   "The HDI Economic Performance Measure"
12.
   "Data on Global Warming Trends"
13.
   "The Misery Index Of Economic Well-Being"
14.
   "International Comparisons of Health Care"
15.
   "The Generosity Index As a Guide to Income Distribution Choices"
16.
   "Ownership of U.S. Public Debt - Sovereignty At Bay?"
17.
   "Profile of the U.S. Voter"
18.
   "Measuring U.S. Political Legitimacy"
19.   "Alternative Voting Systems"
20.   "Evolution of U.S. Public Social Expenditures"
21.   "U.S. Budget and Trade Balances"
22.   "Evolution of the U.S. Balance of Payments"
23.   "Who Invented That - An Inventory of 20th Century Events" 
24.    "U.S. Unemployment Rates - 1960-2009"
25.    "European Jewish Population Estimates, 1933-1945"
26.    "Twentieth Century War Casualties"

Course Reserve Readings
Online Profile
   "HenryMorgan and 17th Century Piracy"
Bowles, Samuel (1998)
   "Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and Other Economic Institutions"
Buxton, Bill (2008)
   "Why Risk Is Important"
Coy, Peter (2009)
   "What Good Are Economists?"
Crawford, Neta C. (2003)
   "Just War Theory and the U.S. Counterterror War"
Donnelly, Thomas (2003)
   "The Underpinnings of the Bush Doctrine"; "The Bush Doctrine"
Easterly, William (2009)
   "Can The West Save Africa?"
The Economist(2007)
   "Latin American Democracy At Stake"
Huntington, Samuel (1993)
   "The Clash of Civilizations"
Kagan, Robert (2008)
   "The Case for a League of Democracies"
Kagan, Robert (2002)
   "Power and Weakness"
Krueger, Alan (2005)
   "Why Bubbles Happen"
Lal, Deepak (2005)
   "In Defense of Empires"
LeBel, P. (2008)
   "Managing Risk In Africa Through Institutional Reform"
LeBel, P. (2007)
   "Political Legitimacy in Context"
LeBel, P. (1997)
   "China's Economic Reforms"
Lewis, Bernard (2009)
   "Free At Last? The Arab World in the Twentieth-first Century"
Lipset, Semour Martin (1959)
   "Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy"
Mehlum, Halvor (2006)
   "Institutions and the Resource Curse"
Scott, Mark (2007)
   "Europe's Carbon Trading Pioneers"
Selassie, Haile (1936)
   "Appeal to the League of Nations"
Sherman, Jake (2001)
   "The Economics of War"
Stansell, Christine (2009)
   "The Aftermath and After"
World Bank(2002)
   "List of World Conflicts from 1946 through 2001"
Zakaria, Fareed (1997)
   "Illiberal Democracy"
Zinn, Jenn (2004)
   "Social Contexts and Responses to Risk"

 

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