Links

 

 

Writing Links

 

How to write a philosophy paper

            Provides reasonably good guidance about how to write a philosophy paper.

 

Another link with a useful ‘philosophical glossary’ for beginners, and tips on how to read and/ write philosophy papers

            Materials developed by a Princeton professor – James Pryor – teaching philosophy at Princeton and Harvard.

 

 

Cambridge links

 

Dev Studies and Faculty of Economics (links to the Development Studies and Economics Programmes at Cambridge)

 

Libraries page (homepage of Cambridge University libraries)

 

Marshall lectures website (Cambridge lecture series on economics)

 

Centre for Capability and Sustainability (centre devoted to the study of the capability approach)

 

Cambridge Realist Workshops (workshops on realism in economics)

 

Moral Sciences Club (philosophical discussions)

 

Simon Blackburn’s page at the University of Cambridge (has some philosophy working papers listed)

 

Partha Das Gupta’s page at the University of Cambridge (several working papers available here)

 

 

Reference sites

 

These sites may assist you with philosophical/economic terms, theories, schools of thoughts, individuals.

 

Stanford Encyclopaedia on Philosophy

            Useful reference source for philosophy; also refer the Philosophy of Economics article here.

 

The New School for Social Science Research – History of Economic Thought Website

            Great resource for introductory information on the history of economic thought and individual economists.

 

Economists’ Papers ProjectDuke University

            Site devoted to preserving the papers of modern economists.

 

Wikipedia

            Online encyclopaedia.

 

JSTOR

            Helps you find most of the relevant journal articles for this course.

 

NBER

            The National Bureau of Economic Research site; useful reference source to keep abreast with some of the latest research being done in economics.

 

Tanner Lectures on Human Values website

            Has full text of all the Tanner lectures, including those we read for this course.

 

E-texts at the University of Virginia.

            Online books, including those relevant to this course – like Mill’s On Liberty or Utilitarianism – are available here.

 

Google

            Incredible search engine; don’t forget to check out it’s scholar function!

 

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

More precisely, the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – quite a mouthful, innit? Useful source for biographies and text of prize winner’s/winners’ lectures.

 

 

Other sites

 

Some other sites of interest.

 

Liejonhufvud’s take on the Econ tribe – ‘Life among the Econ’ (hilarious!)

 

The dismal science’s humour page: Economist jokes

            Bearable!

 

Human Development and Capability AssociationHarvard University

 

Electronic archive of David Hume’s works

            Excellent resource on Hume.

 

Philosopher John Searle’s homepage

            Website of an influential philosopher.  Lists his working papers.

 

Ingrid Robeyns’ website

            Working papers here offer substantive information on the capability approach.

 

MIT open courseware

            Has syllabi and other information related to most courses offered at MIT, including those related to philosophy and history of economics.  Quite impressive.

 

The Cambridge Keynesians

            CEPA’s page on the most popular brand – Keynesians/Post-Keynesians – at the Cambridge school of economics.

 

The Chicago School of Economics (or, perhaps, the ‘other’ school of economics)

            CEPA’s page on the Chicago school of economics.

 

An encyclopaedia article about the Philosophy of Economics

 

PBS Commanding Heights

            Somewhat partial, but extremely interesting, view of the battle of ideas in economics during the past century.

 

Freakonomics

            Popular book with a very lively blog.

 

Bard DeLong’s Blog

            An economist’s daily blog – blogging seems to be a growing trend amongst economists.

 

The History of Economic Thought weblinks

            Useful source listing the links of relevant websites.  Some links may be broken – pity!

 

 

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