Teaching with the Dictionary
Making the most of your subscription
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics is a powerful and valuable classroom resource. It provides succinct surveys and overviews of complex terms and issues that support textbooks and lectures.
In the following are some suggestions for maximizing your subscription to the online Dictionary and helping your students navigate the large amount of information that it contains.
Tip 1: Reading lists
Include references to the Dictionary entries for key terms and themes covered in each of your lectures.
If you make your reading list available online, you can hyperlink the entry directly to the Dictionary.
A live example of this can be found at: http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/ecjrwt/gtscread2010.htm or below.
Tip 2: Customize lecture notes
Use the Dictionary entries, tables and figures to enhance your lecture notes. At the bottom of each entry, you will find the appropriate citation to lead your students back to the Dictionary as a resource for further information.
Tip 3: The three 'Rs': further reading, research and revision
Each entry includes a detailed bibliography and a list of related articles. Students can use these links to drill down within a topic to further their own research. The abstracts to entries can also offer handy revision summaries.
Tip 4: Popular topics
All entries in the Dictionary are catalogued using the JEL codes, however if students are unfamiliar with this system, we have created a list of the most popular topic areas. Click on the links below to find articles grouped by topic area suitable for undergraduates.
- Banking crises
- Behavioural and experimental economics
- Biographies
- Development
- Economic growth
- Economic principles - Coming soon
- Environment - Coming soon
- Game theory
- Globalization
- Macroeconometrics and time series analysis
- Microeconometrics
- Monetary economics
- Recession
Example reading list
This is the reading list for the 2010 MSc course on Growth, Trade and Structural Change.
Introductory reading
Durlauf, Steven N. and Blume, Lawrence E. (2009). Economic Growth. Palgrave Macmillan. Entry on "Economic Growth".
Lecture 1: Introduction and overview
Start with some of the introductory reading above, and then look at:
Durlauf, Steven N. and Paul A. Johnson (2008). Economic growth, empirical regularities in In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 [Online - Metalib] or in Durlauf and Blume, Economic Growth [On order]
Lecture 2: The Solow Model; Convergence
Durlauf, Steven N. and Paul A. Johnson (2008). Convergence. In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.
Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. [Metalib] or in Durlauf and Blume, Economic Growth [On order]
Lecture 3: Investigating Growth
Caselli, Francesco (2008). Growth accounting. In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Caselli, Francesco (2008). Level accounting. In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Lecture 4: Growth Econometrics: Methods and Findings
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Lecture 5: Institutions and Political Economy
Acemoglu, Daron (2008). Growth and institutions. In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Dixit, Avinash (2008). Economic Governance in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Second Edition), Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. [Metalib]
Lecture 6: Trade Policy
Rauch, James (2008). Growth and international trade. In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Lecture 7: Development Policies and Foreign Aid
Easterly, William (2008). Globalization. In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Tarp, Finn (2008). Foreign aid. In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Williamson, John (2008). Washington Consensus. In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Lecture 8: Dualism and Structural Change
Vines, David and Andrew Zeitlin (2008). Dual economies. In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Lecture 9: The East Asian Miracle; China; India
Aizenman, Joshua (2008). Emerging markets. In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.