Price Analysis Ⅱ

課程內容 (樊家忠部分)

第0章, 課程介紹 

第1章: 經濟學是什麼? 

• • * The Value of Control Groups in Causal Inference (and Breakfast Cereal)  by Gary King, March 24, 2017

  • * Correlation is not causation, The Guardian, 2012/1

  • * In Economics, Do We Know What We’re Doing?, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2024/03

  • Survey: To market, to market  from The Economist Jul 19, 2003

第2章: 誘因與選擇 

• • * Higher education—Why textbooks cost so much, Economist, 2014/8/16; beamer; ProQuest

  • * Gary Becker, On the Economics of Capital Punishment; beamer

  • Child-Friendly Divorce (demand for divorce) by Daniel Hamermesh from Freakonomics  

  • Born on the 1st of July from Sydney Morning Herald, June 19, 2006 

  • Unintended consequences of rent control  by Rebecca Diamond from The Brookings 2018/10

  • Reselling media content—Seconds to go, Economist, 2013/3/23; ProQuest

  • Dreams of fields—The quest for secure property rights in Africa, Economist, 2020/9/12; ProQuest

  • Growth and Institutions, IMF, 2003

  • Does Death Penalty Save Lives? A New Debate, New York Times, 2007/11/18; beamer

第4章: 比較利益 

• • * Comparative advantage—The boomerang effect, Economist, 2012/4/21; beamer; ProQuest

  • Fatal flaws—Covid-19’s death toll appears higher than official figures suggest, Economist, 2020/4/4; ProQuest

  • How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work, NYT, 2012/1/21

  • David Barboza, Before Wisconsin, Foxconn Vowed Big Spending in Brazil. Few Jobs Have Come, NYT, 2017/9/20

  • Free exchange—A trade economist wins the John Bates Clark medal, Economist, 2017/4/22; ProQuest

  • Kraemer, Linden, and Dedrick, Capturing Value in Global Networks: Apple’s iPad and iPhone, 2011

第5章:  價格與資源配置 

• • * Taxis v Uber—Substitutes or complements?, Economist, 2015/8/10; beamer; ProQuest

  • * 果菜市場

    1. 張芷瑄, 颱風與菜價, 2019

    2. 許筑婷, 產地農夫與盤商之交易, 2019/12

    3. 諶淑婷, 果菜批發市場夜未眠, 2016

    4. 中盤商攔農民搶菜, 《自由時報》, 2007/10/17

  • Sharing economy

    1. Peer-to-peer rental—The rise of the sharing economy, Economist, 2013/3/9; ProQuest

    2. Four legs good, four wheels better—The sharing economy, African style, Economist, 2017/11/11; ProQuest

  • Organ market

    1. Tina Rosenberg on the Kidney Market in Iran, Econlib, 2015/9/19

    2. What’s wrong with selling kidneys?, NYTimes, 2008/6/20

    3.  Alvin Roth on Matching Markets  from Econtalk June 6, 2015 

第7章: 價格管制 

• • 吳聰敏: 經濟學家觀點：從台灣管制史對應今年蛋荒，其實不該發生？

  • Price Controls by Hugh Rockoff at Econlib 

第8章: 外部成本與外部利益 

• • * Pigouvian taxes, Economist, 2017/8/19; beamer; ProQuest

  • * Free exchange—One of the giants, Economist, 2013/9/7; beamer; ProQuest

  • Orange Blossom Special: Externalities and the Coase Theorem by Michael Munger at Econlib 

  • Jam every day—How and why road-pricing will happen, Economist, 2017/8/3; beamer; ProQuest

  • “Sin” taxes, Economist, 2018/7/26; ProQuest

  • 捷運環狀線試車好吵, 《自由時報》, 2019/1/26

  • Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing  on TED

  • The Pigou Club Manifesto  from Greg Mankiw's Blog

  • Everything we know about AIDS in Africa is wrong by Emily Oster on TED