There are three textbooks. The first is Pietra Rivoli's Travels of a T-Shirt in a Global Economy, a fun examination of the political economy of international production and trade. Make sure you get the second edition.
The second is Jeffry Frieden's Global Capitalism, an in-depth and engrossing history of the global political economy since the start of the twentieth century.
The third is Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise, a new book investigating the science of prediction from the man behind Baseball Prospectus and the NY Times FiveThirtyEight blog.
In addition to the required texts, make yourself familiar with the Readings tab at the top of this blog. This is where you will find the supplemental readings listed in the syllabus.
