Useful background material for the topics covered in this lesson can be found
in Joseph Stiglitz, Economics which is published by W.W. Norton.
The appropriate pages in various editions are 252-278 in Chapter 10. Another
useful reading would be Chapter 20, pages 252-278 of the 1993 edition of Jeffrey
D. Sachs and Felipe Larrain, Macroeconomics in the Global Economy
which is published by Prentice Hall. Equivalent material should be found in other
editions. If you want to really get series about this material, you should read
Chapters 7, 8 and 9 of Principles of Corporate Finance by Richard
Brealey, Stewart Myers, et. al. which is published by McGraw Hill. The
appropriate material is in the same chapters in a number of editions.