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