Economics
http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html
Read Robert Lucas’ “Some Macroeconomics for the 21st Century” in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. (Skip the appendix.)
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/02/lucas_on_growth.html
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/research/papers/cochrane_growth.pdf
Akerlof, George A. (1970), ‘The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, LXXXIV (3), August 488-500.
http://www.iei.liu.se/nek/730g83/artiklar/1.328833/AkerlofMarketforLemons.pdf
Read Krugman’s paper on unemployment
http://www.kc.frb.org/PUBLICAT/ECONREV/EconRevArchive/1994/4Q94KRUG.pdf
Read Thomas Sargent’s paper about the credibility of “Reaganonomics.”
http://minneapolisfed.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15334coll1/id/366
http://minneapolisfed.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15334coll1/id/366/rec/1
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/08/romer_on_growth.html