Week	Dates	Topic	Reading
1	Sept 14	Overview	How the Economists Got It Wrong, By James Galbraith, The American Prospect, November 30, 2002 How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? By Paul Krugman, The New York Times Magazine, September 2, 2009 Video: Bill Moyers interview with James Galbraith, October 24, 2008 Video: Principles of Economics, Translated, by Yoram Bauman
2	Sept 21	Business cycles	Cycles, Trends and Financial Crisis: Understanding the Impacts of Monetary Policies
3	Sept 28	Discount rates	The Nature of Discounting
4	Oct 5	Monetary policies
5	Oct 19	Financial crisis
6	Oct 26
7	Nov 2	Regulations	Regulations in Organisms and Organizations
8	Nov 9
9	Nov 16	Asset and liability management	Fundamental Indexation, by Robert D. Arnott, Jason Hsu, and Philip Moore, Financial Analysts Journal, Volume 61 • Number 2, 2005
10	Nov 23		Demographics and Capital Market Returns, Arnott, R. and Casscells, A. Financial Analysts Journal, 59, Issue 2, p. 20-29. 2003
11	Nov 30	Review
	TBA	Final Exam

General Reading:

1. Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance by Perry Mehrling, 2005
2. Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse by Thomas E. Woods Jr., 2009
3. The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by James Galbraith, 2009
4. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007
5. The Physical Foundation of Economics: An Analytical Thermodynamic Theory by Jing Chen, 2005. Some reviews of my works can be found here.