Firms and markets III

Readings due before class on Monday, March 4, 2019

Required

• Chapters 7 and 12 in Naked EconomicsCharles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, 2nd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010).
  
  
• “Continued Existence Of Edible Arrangements Disproves Central Tenets Of Capitalism,”, The Onion, March 31, 2011
• Maurice E. Stucke, “Is Competition Always Good?,” March 25, 2013
• At least one of these episodes (both if you’re adventurous):
  • Planet Money, “The Tale Of The Onion King,” episode 657, October 14, 2015
  • Planet Money, “Mavericks, Monopolies And Beer,” episode 438, February 23, 2013