Greg Mankiw’s Blog: This Year’s First-Year Seminar

In recent years, I have been teaching a seminar to a small group of Harvard freshmen. I described the seminar in this essay in the NY Times. 

The assigned readings change a bit from year to year. In case any of my blog readers are interested, here are the books I chose for this year:

• The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert Heilbroner
• Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman
• Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff, by Arthur Okun
• We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care, by Liran Einav and
  Amy Finkelstein
• Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration, by Bryan Caplan and Zach
  Weinersmith
• The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started
  Falling Behind, by Melissa Kearney