The following reading list is designed to provide some information about the scope and content of Papers 1 to 4 of the Land Economy Tripos. It is not intended as a replacement to the detailed reading lists associated to individual lectures which are provided to students when they begin the course.
| Paper 1: Economics I & II | |
|---|---|
| Pressman, S. |
Fifty major economists |
| Acemoglu, D., Laibson, D., List, J. |
Microeconomics Particularly useful for those with no economics background |
| Blanchard, M.O.J., Rogoff, M.K. and Rajan, R. |
Progress and confusion: the state of macroeconomic policy |
| Paper 2: The Public Sector: Institutional and Legal Frameworks | |
|---|---|
| Loughlin, M. |
The British Constitution: A Very Short Introduction |
| Galligan, D. | The Constitution in Crisis: The New Putney Debates I.B.Tauris, 2017 |
| Paper 3: Quantitative and Legal Methods for Land Economists |
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|---|---|
| Chiang, A.C. and Wainwright, K. | Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics. McGraw Hill, 4th edition, 2005 |
| Lind, D.A, Marchal, W.G. and Wathen, S.A. | Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics. McGraw Hill, 15th edition, 2011 |
| Spiegel, M. R. | Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Statistics. McGraw Hill, 4th edition, 2007 |
| Twining, W. and D. Miers, D. |
How to do things with rules |
| Paper 4: Land Economy, Development and Sustainability | |
|---|---|
| Jacobs, J. |
The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
| Glaeser, E. |
Triumph of the City |
| Hall, P. |
Cities of Tomorrow |
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Le Grand, J., Propper, C. and Smith, S. |
The Economics of Social Problems |
