| LEC # | TOPIC | READING |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introductory Meeting | |
| 2 | Exchange Schools and Production Schools |
Amsden, Alice. In The Rise of 'The Rest'. Oxford, 2001, pp. 31-121. Sachs, Jeffrey D., and Andrew M. Warner. "Economic Convergence and Economic Policies." NBER Working Paper No. 5039, February 1995. Dani Rodrick, "Institutions, Integration, and Geography: In Search of the Deep Determinants of Economic Growth, February 2002. Supplementary: Moises Naim, "Fads and Fashion in Economic Reforms: Washington Consensus or Washington Confusion?" Paper prepared for IMF Conference on Second Generation Reforms, Washington, DC, 1999. |
| 3 | Under Development In Theory and Practice |
Bates, Robert. In Markets and States in Tropical Africa. Univ. of California, 1981, pp. 1-44, 81-95. United Nations Development Programme. Arab Human Development Report 2002. skim entire report but focus on Chapters 1,2, and 7. |
| 4 | Development and The State |
Shleifer, Andrei, and Robert Vishny. In The Grabbing Hand: Government Pathologies and Their Cures. Harvard, 1999, pp. 1-13. Boycko, Maxim, Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny. In Privatizing Russia. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, Chap. 1 and 2 (pp. 1-46 ). Stiglitz, Joseph E. "Redefining the Role of the State What should it do? How should it Do it? And How should these Decisions be Made? Presented on the Tenth Anniversary of MITI Research Institute," March 1998. Stiglitz, Joseph E. "Wither Reform? Ten Years of Transition." Paper prepared for World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics, Washington, DC, April, 1999. |
| 5 | Development and Social Capital |
Putnam, Robert D. In Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993, Chapters 4-6 (pp. 121-185). Francis Fukuyama, "Social Capital and Civil Society," IMF Working Paper WP/00/74, April 2000. Locke, Richard M. "Building Trust." Paper prepared for The Saint-Gobain Centre for Economic Research 5th Conference, Paris, November 2002. |
| 6 | Development and Law |
Hernando, de Soto. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (Basic Books, 2000). La Porta, Rafael, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny. "Law and Finance." Journal of Political Economy, vol. 106, no. 6 (December 1998): 1113-1155. Alford, William. |
| 7 | Development and Regime Type |
North, Douglass, and Barry Weingast. "Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth Century England." Journal of Economic History Vol. 49, (December 1989): 803-832 Gerschenkron, Alexander. "Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective." Harvard, 1962, pp. 5-30. Przeworski, Adam, and Fernando Limongi. "Political Regimes and Economic Growth," Journal of Economic Perspectives 7 (Summer 1993): 51-69 Olson, Mancur. Power and Prosperity. New York: Basic Books, 2000, Chap. 1 and 2 (pp. 1-43). |
| 8 | Catch-Up and The Developmental State |
Amsden, Alice. Asia's Next Giant. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989, Chap. 1 (pp. 3-23). Wade, Robert. Governing the Market. Princeton, 1990, (pp. 8-112). Evans, Peter J. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation. Princeton, 1995, (pp. 3-73). Krugman, Paul. "The Myth of Asia's Miracle." Foreign Affairs 73, (Nov/Dec 1994): 62-78. |
| 9 | Innovation, Organizations and Development |
Schumpeter, Joseph. "The Theory of Economic Development." Chap. 2 in The Fundamental Phenomenon of Economic Development. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, [1911] 1968, pp. 57-94. Joseph Schumpeter. Chap. XII-XVII in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. New York: Harper and Row, [1942] 1976, pp. 131-199. Chandler, Alfred D., and Takashi Hikino. "The Large Industrial Enterprise and the Dynamics of Modern Growth." In Chandler et al., eds., Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. Clayton, Christensen M. "The Innovator's Dilemma." HBS Press, 1997, pp. ix-xxiv, 3-59. |
| 10 | Globalization, Modularity and Production |
Aoki, Masahiko and Hirokazu Takizawa. "Modularity: Its Relevance to Industrial Architecture." paper prepared for the Conference on Innovation within Firms, Saint-Gobain Centre for Economic Research, Paris, November 2002. Brusoni, Stefano and Keith Pavitt. "Modularity and the Division of Cognitive Labor Within/Across Organizations." Paper prepared for the Conference on Innovation within Firms, Saint-Gobain Centre for Economic Research, Paris, November 2002. Fujimoto, Takahiro. "Organizational Diversity and Corporate Performance." Paper prepared for the Conference on Innovation within Firms, Saint-Gobain Centre for Economic Research, Paris, November 2002. |
| 11 | Catch-Up In A Globalized World |
Saxenian, Anna Lee. "Taiwan's Hsinchu Region: Imitator and Partner for Silicon Valley." SIEPR Discussion Paper no. 00-44, Stanford University, June 2001. Amsden, Alice and Wan-wen Chu. "Beyond Late Development: Upgrading Policies in Taiwan". Chap. 3 Government-Led Networking. Cambridge: MIT Press, forthcoming. Steinfeld, Edward S. "Chinese Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Global Integration," paper prepared for World Bank project on East Asian Networked Production, November 2002. Supplementary: |
| 12 | Globalization and Its Discontent |
Williamson, John. "What Should the World Bank Think about the Washington Consensus?" The World Bank Research Observer vol. 15, no. 2 (Aug. 2000): 251-64. Dani Rodrik, "Feasible Globalizations" Margaret, McMillan, Dani Rodrik, and Karen Horn Welch. "When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique." Stiglitz, Joseph E. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002, 23-88. |
| 13 | Research Presentation | |
| 14 | Research Presentation |
