Primer Semestre 2012

MICROECONOMÍA II
2012 Primer Semestre
Programa y Bibliografía
Nota: Para acceder al Tratado de Microeconomía se requiere usuario y contraseña, que
serán informados al inicio del curso.
1.
Microeconomía y Sistemas Económicos. Enrique Bour, Introduction to
Friedrich Hayek, Agosto 2011. John E. Roemer, An Anti-Hayekian Manifesto, New Left
Review I/211, May-June 1995, 111-129. Enrique Bour, Corporations Have the
Responsibility of Maximizing Profit (Friedman dixit), Febrero 2010. Rudolf Richter, A
Socialist Economy-Can it work? The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Feb. 1991.
János Kornai, What the Change from Socialism to Capitalism Does and Does not Mean,
Journal of Economic Perspectives-Volume 14, Number I-Winter 2000-Pages 27-42
(traducción de Enrique Bour).
2.
Introducción Metodológica a la Microeconomía. Enrique Bour, Capítulo
I, Tratado de Microeconomía, 2009. Terence Hutchison, The Signicance and Basic
Postulates of Economic Theory, London, 1938. Karl R. Popper, The Logic of Scientific
Discovery, English translation of Logik der Forschung [Hutchinson & Co., 1959] Taylor
& Francis e-Library, 2005. Thomas J. Hickey, History of Twentieth-Century Philosophy
of Science, Book V, Karl Popper and Falsificationist Criticism, 1995, 2005. Mark Blaug,
The Methodology of Economics, Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature, 1980.
Thomas S. Kuhn, La Estructura de las Revoluciones Científicas, Cap. I a VII, y XIII,
Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004. Paul Feyerabend, Outline of an anarchistic theory
of knowledge, in Against Method, 1975. Milton Friedman, The Methodology of Positive
Economics, 1953, in Essays in Positive Economics (1953). Lawrence A. Boland, A
Critique of Friedman's Critiques, 1979, Journal of Econ. Lit., Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1979),
pp. 503-522. Fritz Machlup, El Problema de la Verificación en Economía, Southern
Economic Association, Bilozzi, Mississippi, November, 1954. Bruce Caldwell, Chapter 9
The Case for Pluralism, in Neil de Marchi, The Popperian Legacy in Economic Papers,
Presented at a Symposium in Amsterdam, December 1985. Bruce J. Caldwell, PostKeynesian methodology: an Assessment, Review of Political Economy, Volume 1, Issue
1, 1989. Donald [Deirdre] N. McCloskey, The Rhetoric of Economics, Journal of
Economic Literature, Volume 21, Issue 2 (Jun., 1983), 481-517. Daniel M. Hausman,
Economic Methodology in a Nutshell, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 3,
No. 2 (Spring, 1989), pp. 115-127. Rafe Champion, Problems with Popper Scholarship.
Enrique Bour, David Goodstein: Cómo Funciona la Ciencia, Marzo, 2011.
3.
Apuntes de Historia del Análisis Económico. Mark Blaug, No History of
Ideas, Please, We’re Economists, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 1
(Winter, 2001), pp. 145-164. Enrique Bour, Capítulo II, Tratado de Microeconomía,
2009.
4.
Optimización, Teoría de los juegos y Aplicaciones. Enrique Bour,
Capítulo III, Tratado de Microeconomía, 2009. Enrique Bour, Introducción a Teoría de
los Juegos, Marzo, 2011. Enrique Bour, Capítulo XVI, Tratado de Microeconomía,
2009. Ejan Mackaay, Le Droit Saisi par le Jeu, Droit et Société, 17/18, 1991 (traducción
de Enrique Bour).
5.
Teoría de la Demanda y Aplicaciones. Enrique Bour, Capítulos IV y V,
Tratado de Microeconomía, 2009. George J. Stigler, The Development of Utility
Theory. I, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Aug., 1950), pp. 307-327.
Enrique Bour, Capítulos VIII y XII, Tratado de Microeconomía, 2009. Lucio G. Reca y
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Ernesto Gaba, Poder adquisitivo, veda y sustitutos: un reexamen de la demanda interna
de carne vacuna en la Argentina, 1950-1972, Desarrollo Económico, Vol. XIII, Nº 50,
1973. José Miguel Benavente, Alexander Galetovic, Ricardo Sanhueza, y Pablo Serra,
Estimando la Demanda Residencial por Electricidad en Chile: el Consumo es Sensible
al Precio, Cuadernos de Economía, vol. 42 (Mayo 2005).
6.
Teoría de la Producción y Aplicaciones. Enrique Bour, Capítulos VI y VII,
Tratado de Microeconomía, 2009. Enrique Bour, Capítulo X, Tratado de
Microeconomía, 2009. Ross L. Watts and Jerold L. Zimmerman, Positive Accounting
Theory: A Ten Year Perspective, The Accounting Review, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Jan., 1990), pp.
131-156. Enrique Bour, Capítulo XI, Tratado de Microeconomía, 2009. Enrique Bour,
Capítulo VIII, Tratado de Microeconomía, 2009. K. J. Arrow, H. B. Chenery, B. S.
Minhas and R. M. Solow, Capital-Labor Substitution and Economic Efficiency, The
Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Aug., 1961), pp. 225-250. János
Kornai, Resource-Constrained versus Demand-Constrained Systems, Econometrica,
Vol. 47, No. 4 (Jul., 1979), pp. 801-819.
7.
Mercados. Enrique Bour, Capítulos XIII, XIV, y XV, Tratado de
Microeconomía, 2009. Enrique Bour, Mercados Disputables ¿Un Nuevo Paradigma del
Oligopolio o un Camino sin Salida?, Abril, 2011. Enrique Bour, Capítulo XVII, Tratado
de Microeconomía, 2009. Martin Shubik and Richard Levitan, Market Structure and
Behavior, Chapters 1-4, Harvard University Press, 1980. Anthony Horsley and Andrew
J. Wrobel, A Practical Short-Run Approach to Market Equilibrium, London School of
Economics and Political Science, April 2005. George J. Mailath, Do People Play Nash
Equilibrium? Lessons From Evolutionary Game Theory, Journal of Economic
Literature, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Sep., 1998), pp. 1347-1374. Eric Maskin and Jean Tirole, A
Theory of Dynamic Oligopoly, I: Overview and Quantity Competition with Large Fixed
Costs, Econometrica, Vol. 56, No. 3 (May, 1988), pp. 549-569. Eric Maskin and Jean
Tirole, A Theory of Dynamic Oligopoly, II: Price Competition, Kinked Demand Curves,
and Edgeworth Cycles, Econometrica, Vol. 56, No. 3 (May, 1988), pp. 571-599.
8.
Programación Lineal. Enrique Bour, Capítulo XVIII, Tratado de
Microeconomía, 2009. Tjalling C. Koopmans, Activity Analysis of Production and
Allocation, in Cooperation with Armen Alchian, George B. Dantzig, Nicholas
Georgescu-Roegen, Paul A. Samuelson and Albert W. Tucker, Proceedings of a
Conference, 1951. David Gale, Linear Programming and the Simplex Method, Notices of
the AMS Volume 54, Number 3, March 2007.
9.
Incertidumbre y Riesgo. Enrique Bour, Capítulo IX, Tratado de
Microeconomía, 2009. Paul J. H. Schoemaker, The Expected Utility Model: Its
Variants, Purposes, Evidence and Limitations, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 20,
No. 2 (Jun., 1982), pp. 529-563. R. Duncan Luce, Where Does Subjective Expected
Utility Fail Descriptively? Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 5: 5-27, 1992.
10.
Equilibrio General. Enrique Bour, Capítulos XIX y XXII, Tratado de
Microeconomía, 2009. Naoki Yoshihara, Reexamination of the Marxian Exploitation
Theory, Discussion Paper Series A No. 481, May 2006, The Institute of Economic
Research, Hitotsubashi University. Enrique Bour, Capítulos XX y XXI, Tratado de
Microeconomía, 2009. Enrique Bour, Eficiencia y Elección Social, Tratado de
Microeconomía, 2009. Murray C. Kemp y Koji Shimomura, The Sonnenschein–
Debreu–Mantel Proposition and the Theory of International Trade, Review of
International Economics (2002), 10: 671–679. Fernando Tohmé, Rolf Mantel and the
Computability of General Equilibria: On the Origins of the Sonnenschein-MantelDebreu Theorem, History of political economy, Nº. 5, 2007, pags. 213-227.
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11.
Socialismo y capitalismo. Enrique Bour, Capítulo XXIII, Tratado de
Microeconomía, 2009. John E. Roemer, Socialismo, New Palgrave Dictionary of
Economics, January 5, 2005 (traducción de Enrique Bour). Andrei Shleifer y Robert W.
Vishny, The Politics of Market Socialism, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 8,
No. 2 (Spring, 1994), pp. 165-176. Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W.
Vishny, Privatizing Russia, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2:1993, 139-192.
Oskar Lange, The Computer and the Market, 1967, in C. H. Feinstein, ed., Socialism,
Capitalism and Economic Growth, Cambridge University Press. Friedrich Hayek, The
Use of Knowledge in Society, The American Economic Review, XXXV, No. 4;
September, 1945, 519-30. Enrique Bour, Capítulo XXVI, Tratado de Microeconomía,
2009. Antonio Estache and Liam Wren-Lewis, Toward a Theory of Regulation for
Developing Countries: Following Jean-Jacques Laffont’s Lead, Journal of Economic
Literature 2009, 47:3, 729–770. Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and
Democracy, Introduction by Richard Swedberg, [First published in the UK in 1943],
Routledge, 2003. Paul A. Samuelson, Adiós al Capitalismo de Friedman y Hayek, El
País, Aug. 2008. Paul Samuelson and Robert Merton differ on the causes of the
financial crisis (video), Jan. 2009. Milton Friedman, Socialism vs. Capitalism (video),
Feb. 2009. Martin L. Weitzman, Prices vs. Quantities, The Review of Economic Studies,
Vol. 41, No. 4 (Oct., 1974), pp. 477-491.
12.
Bienes Públicos y Externalidades. Enrique Bour, Capítulo XXIV, Tratado
de Microeconomía, 2009. Enrique Bour y María Paula Cacault, Capítulo XXV, Tratado
de Microeconomía, 2009. María P. Cacault, Enrique A. Bour, Diego Álvarez, Iris Ceñal,
Romina Job y Antonella di Menna, Otro Problema Económico: El Cambio Climático
Global, FIEL, Indicadores de Coyuntura, Nº 492, Oct. 2008. E.J. Mishan, The Postwar
Literature on Externalities: An Interpretative Essay, Journal of Economic Literature,
Vol. 9, No. 1 (Mar., 1971), pp. 1-28. James M. Buchanan, The Collected Works of James
M. Buchanan, Vol. 5. The Demand and Supply of Public Goods [1968], Foreword:
Geoffrey Brennan (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999). Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Fallacies
of the Public Goods Theory and the Production of Security, The Journal of Libertarian
Studies, 9:1 (Winter 1989), 27-46. Jerry Green y Jean-Jacques Laffont,
Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for
Public Goods, Econometrica, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Mar., 1977), pp. 427-438.
13.
Economía de la Información, Análisis Económico del Derecho y de
las Instituciones. Enrique Bour, Capítulo XXVII, Tratado de Microeconomía, 2009.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Information And The Change In The Paradigm In Economics, Prize
Lecture, December 8, 2001. George J. Stigler, The Economics of Information, The
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Jun., 1961). Richard Arnott and Joseph E.
Stiglitz, Price Equilibrium, Efficiency, and Decentralizability in Insurance Markets,
NBER Working Paper, March 1991. Peter Hammond, The Role of Information in
Economics, in L'Informazione nell' Economia e nel Diritto (Milan, 1990) (traducción de
Enrique Bour). Enrique Bour, Capítulos XXVIII y XXIX, Tratado de Microeconomía,
2009. Dennis C. Mueller, Public Choice: A Survey, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol.
14, No. 2 (Jun., 1976), pp. 395-433. Anthony de Jasay, The State, Library of Economics
and Liberty, 1985. Douglass C. North, Institutions, The Journal of Economic
Perspectives, Volume 5, Issue 1, Winter, 1991 (sections 1-5); and Institutions Matter, in
D. C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1990) (traducido por Enrique Bour).
Masahiko Aoki, Endogenizing Institutions and their Changes, Journal of Institutional
Economics, SSRN.
14.
Microeconomía de la Educación y la Salud. Enrique Bour, Capítulo XXX,
Tratado de Microeconomía, 2009. Daniel L. Rubinfeld, Theodore Bergstrom, Perry
Shapiro y Judith Roberts, A Test for Efficiency in the Supply of Public Education,
Journal of Public Economics, April 1988. János Kornai, The Health of Nations:
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Reflections on the Analogy Between the Medical Sciences and Economics, Kyklos, 1983,
36/2, 191-212. János Kornai, The soft budget constraint syndrome in the hospital
sector, International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, vol. 9, 2009, 117135. Claire Gudex, QALYs and their use by the health service, October 1986, Centre for
Health Economics, University of York. Martin I. Meltzer, Introduction to health
economics for physicians, The Lancet, Vol. 358, September 22, 2001. Cass R. Sunstein,
Health-health Trade-Offs, University of Chicago Law School, Law and Economics
Working Paper, Sep. 1996.
15.
Economía Financiera. Enrique Bour, Capítulo XXXI, Tratado de
Microeconomía, 2009. Koichi Hamada, A Comparison of Currency Crises Between Asia
and Latin America, in Enrique Bour, Daniel Heymann and Fernando Navajas (Eds.),
Latin American Economic Crises, Trade and Labour. Palgrave McMillan, Dec. 2003.
Juan Ricardo Perilla, An Empirical Approach to the Political Economy of Financial
Crises, Revista de Economía Institucional Vol. 10, No. 18, 1º Semester 2008. Ivo
Pezzuto, Miraculous Financial Engineering or Toxic Finance? The Genesis of the U.S.
Subprime Mortgage Loans Crisis and its Consequences on the Global Financial Markets
and Real Economy, October 2008, Social Science Research Network. Steve Schifferes,
Financial crises: Lessons from history, BBC, Sept. 3, 2007. Thierry Tressel, Financial
Contagion through Bank Deleveraging: Stylized Facts and Simulations Applied to the
Financial Crisis, IMF Working Paper, Oct. 2010. Barry Eichengreen, Are We in a Global
Economic Crisis? The World Economy in the 21st Century, Yale University, April, 1999.
David B. Smith, Living with Leviathan. Public Spending, Taxes and Economic
Performance, The Institute of Economic Affairs, 2006. George Selgin, Central Banks as
Sources of Financial Instability, The Independent Review, v. 14, n. 4, Spring 2010, 485496. Bruce Yandle, Lost Trust: The Real Cause of the Financial Meltdown, The
Independent Review, v. 14, n. 3, Winter 2010, 341-361. Karl R. Popper, Science:
Conjectures and Refutations, 1963, Routledge.
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