Textbook

Taylor, J. Edward, and Travis J. Lybbert. 2020. Essentials of Development Economics, Third Edition. 3rd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Required)

Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. 2012.Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty . New York, NY: PublicAffairs. (Required)

Banerjee, Abhijit V., and Esther Duflo. 2021. Good Economics for Hard Times. PublicAffairs. (Optional)

Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. 2013. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. London, England: Profile Books. (Optional)

Piketty, Thomas. 2017.Capital in the Twenty-First Century . Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. London, England: Belknap Press. (Optional)

Varoufakis, Yanis. 2024. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publishing. (Optional)

Acemoglu, Daron, and Simon Johnson. 2023. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity . PublicAffairs. (Optional)