If you are interested in learning more about Land Economy, consider exploring some of the following books:
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Is Eating People Wrong? Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World |
Allan Hutchinson |
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What about Law: Studying Law at University |
Catherine Barnard, Janet O'Sullivan and Graham Virgo |
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Economics of Social Problems |
Julian Le Grand and Carol Propper |
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The Undercover Economist |
Tim Harford |
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Feral: rewilding the land, sea, and human life |
George Monbiot |
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Triumph of the City |
Edward Glaeser |
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities |
Jane Jacobs |
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Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880 |
Peter Hall |
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Why nations fail: The origins of power, prosperity, and poverty |
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson |
Further Reading
If you are starting the Land Economy course in the autumn, you may also be interested in our Long Vacation Preparatory Reading List.
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.
Long vacation preparatory reading list
| Paper 1: Economics I & II | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 |