Reading Groups
The Berry Center reading groups feature books that challenge students to think about applied economics, business, or public policy in other ways.Each reading group is hosted by a Cornell faculty or staff member. These facilitators provide students opportunities out of the classroom to interact with others who share similar interests.
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Fall 2008: Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein During the fall of 2008, facilitator and President of the College Les Garner met with 18 selected students to discuss Thaler and Sunstein's assertion that "thoughtful choice architecture can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting freedom of choice." |
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Fall 2008: One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth by Dani Rodrik During the fall of 2008, facilitators Professor Todd Knoop and Professor David Yamanishi met with 18 students to discuss Rodrik's argument that "neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right." |
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Spring 2008: The White Man's burden by William Easterly During the spring of 2008, Professor Todd Knoop met with students to discuss Easterly's look at "why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good." |
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Spring 2007: Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner During the spring of 2007, facilitator and President of the College Les Garner met with 18 selected students to discuss Freakonomics and topics such as "why do drug dealers still live at home with their moms and how the Ku Klux Klan is like a group of real estate agents." Following their conversations, the group traveled to Chicago to meet coauthor Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and director of The Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory. |
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For more information about the reading groups, please contact
Coordinator of the Berry Center, Monica Lyons.
