Reading List
Books for Life
Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone.
Leadership without Easy Answers by Ronald Heifetz.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher.
Grit by Angela Duckworth.
Emotional Agility by Susan David.
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.
The School of Life Youtube Channel.
Books on International Trade
Case Studies in US Trade Negotiations (Volume 1 and Volume 2) by Charan Devereaux, Robert Lawrence and Michael Watkins.
Straight Talk on Trade, by Dani Rodrik.
Economic Interdependence and War, by Dale C. Copeland.
Trade Wars Are Class Wars, by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis.
An Advanced Guide to Trade Policy Analysis: The Structural Gravity Model, by Yoto Yotov, Roberta Piermartini, José-Antonio Monteiro and Mario Larch.
Chapter 2 in Technology in Global Economy: A Framework for Quantitative Analysis, by Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum.
Chapter 6 in US Agricultural and Food Policies, by Gerald Toland, William Nganje and Raphael Onyeaghala.
Other resources
Syllabus of International Macroeconomics and Trade at the University of Chicago, by Rodrigo Adao and Jonathan Dingel
Lecture notes of Arnaud Costinot and Dave Donaldson.
Lecture notes of Treb Allen and Costos Arkolakis.
Lecture notes of Ahmad Lashkaripour.
Books on Economic Development
Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action by Lant Pritchett, Matt Andrews, and Michael J. V. Woolcock.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson.
The Anatomy of Revolution by Crane Britton.
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey.
Books on Climate Change & Agriculture
The Economics of Climate Change, the Stern Review, by Nicholas Stern, Chapters 1-6.
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, By Katharine Hayhoe.
Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 5.
Economics of Agricultural Crop Insurance: Theory and Evidence, by Darrell L. Hueth and William H. Furtan.
Agricultural Policy in the United States: Evolution and Economics, by James Novak, Larry Sanders and Amy Hagerman (I only read the first three chapters. It can be a good reference book to teach a class on agricultural policy).
Other Websites
Suggested Reading List of Marc F. Bellemare