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Syllabus

EXAM #2 (Due Tuesday November 11)

Paper Presentation Schedule

Power Point Slides

1. Game Theory - Part 1
2. Game Theory - Part 2
3. Keynes, Economics & War  Some slides on Classical Liberalism
4. Economic Sanctions Case Studies from the Petersen Institute
5. The Decision to go to War Benefit Cost Analysis
6. Economic Consequences of the War in Iraq Nordhaus study
7. War in Iraq versus Containment Davis, Murphy, & Topel study
8. War in Iraq Wallsten & Kosec study
9. Commanding Heights Some observations and questions about the early chapters of Commanding Heights
10. The $3 Trillion War Stiglitz & Bilmes study
11. Economics of WWI
12. Economics of WWII
13. Wages of Destruction - the Nazi Economic and Strategic Decisions

Sources on the Web for research ideas.  Word document with hyperlinks.

Ideas for Research Paper

Articles from newspapers and magazines

Doing a Literature search for your paper - some instructions for accessing Murphy Library databases