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Econ 115: Lecture Topics, Readings, and Assignments Economics 115: Fall 2009: TTh 12:30-2, F295 Haas http://delong.typepad.com/slouching Lecture Topics, Readings, and Assignments M Aug 24: Before class begins: http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823b Th Aug 27: Overview Partha Dusgupta, “Prologue,” Chapter 1 in Partha Dasgupta, Economics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2007, pp. 1-13 http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823a Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 1-17 ("The Century: A Bird's Eye View") Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital (Princeton University Press, 2008), Chapter 1. Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, Prologue. T Sep 1: Slow Income Growth and the Absolute Poverty of the North Atlantic, 1800-1870 Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo, “Introduction,” in Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo (eds.), Patterns of European Industrialization During the 19th Century, London: Routledge (1991), pp. 1-26. Th Sep 3: No Income Growth and the Dire Absolute Poverty of the Globe, 1800-1870 Jared Diamond (1987), "The Invention of Agriculture: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race," Discover. http://www.scribd.com/doc/2100251/Jared-Diamond-The-WorstMistake-in-the-History-of-the-Human-Race F Sep 4: Essay due: why I am taking this class... http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823g T Sep 8: The Invention of Invention: Modern Economic Growth Comes to the North Atlantic, 18701914 http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/08/econ-115-lecture-topics-readings-and-assignments.html
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1914 John Maynard Keynes (1920). The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Chapter 2. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15776 Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapter 3. Th Sep 10: The Iron-Hulled Ocean-Going Steamship: One Economic World, Indivisible, 1870-1914 Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital (Princeton University Press, 2008), Chapter 2. Michael Bordo, "Globalization in Historical Perspective," Business Economics (January 2002). http:/people.ucsc.edu/~hutch/Econ143/bordo.pdf Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapter 1. F Sep 11: Problem set due: growth accounting and the coming of modern economic growth... T Sep 15: Democracy, 1870-1914 W. Arthur Lewis. The Evolution of the International Economic Order, pp. 1-38 (chapters 1-6). Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapter 5. Th Sep 17: Empire, 1870-1914 W. Arthur Lewis. The Evolution of the International Economic Order, pp. 39-75 (chapters 7-10). Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapter 4. F Sep 18: Problem set due: gains from international trade T Sep 22: FIRST EXAM (pre-WWI/police the reading/instructor reality check) Th Sep 24: The Knot of War: 1914-1920 and After Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 21-35 (Chapter 1, part I). Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 127-154 (Chapter 6). T Sep 29: Trying to Keep Believing in Progress, 1920-1929 Charles Feinstein, Peter Temin and Gianni Toniolo, The European Economy Between the Wars (Oxford 1997), chapters 2, 3 and 5, pp. 18-53 and 84-102. Th Oct 1: The Business Cycle and the Great Depression, 1825-1940 Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, chapter 3. Peter Fearon, “Hoover, Roosevelt and American Economic Policy During the 1930s,� in W.R. Garside, Capitalism in Crisis: International Responses to the Great Depression (Pinter Publishers, 1993), pp. 114-147. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 85-108 (Chapter 3). Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapter 8. F Oct 2: Essay due: where my ancestors were in 1914-1945... http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823f T Oct 6: Nazis, Bolsheviks, Fascists, Socialists, and Social Democrats, 1870-1933 Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 109-141 (Chapters 2 and 4). Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 195-252 (Chapters 9-10). Th Oct 8: Dealing with the Imperial West, 1914-1950
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Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 199-224 (Chapter 7). F Oct 9: Problem set due: the Great Depression T Oct 13: Total War and Cold Peace, 1933-1955 Peter Howlett, “The Legacy of the Second World War,” in Max-Stephan Schulze (ed.), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change Since 1945 (Longman, 1999), chapter 1, pp. 5-22. Till Geiger, “Reconstruction and the Beginnings of European Integration,” in Max-Stephan Schulze (ed.), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945 (Longman, 1999), Chapter 3, pp. 23-41. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 36-53 (Chapter 1, parts IIIV). Th Oct 15: Social Democracy in One (North Atlantic) Region, 1920-1975 N.F.R Crafts, “The Great Boom, 1950-73,” in Max-Stephan Schulze (ed.), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945, chapter 4, pp. 42-62. Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, chapter 4. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 257-274 (Chapter 9, parts IIII). Larry Neal and Daniel Barbazat, The Economics of the European Union and the Economies of Europe (Oxford University Press, 1998), chapter 4, pp. 70-87. Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapters 11 and 12. F OCT 16: Essay due: economic growth and the difference it made, 1914-1973 http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823e T Oct 20: SECOND EXAM (1914-1973) Th Oct 22: From Colonialism to Neocolonialism: Import Substitution, State Building, and Divergence, 1940-1980 Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 344-352 (Chapter 12, parts I-II). Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 301-320 (Chapter 13). T Oct 27: Stalin, Mao, and Their Heirs 1926-1990 Richard Ericson, “The Classical Soviet-Type Economy: Nature of the System and Implications for Reform,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 5:4 (Autumn) 1991, pp. 11-27. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 344-352, 461-471 (Chapter 13, Chapter 16 part I). Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 321-338 (Chapter 14). Th Oct 29: Japan and the Stubborn Boundaries of the "First World", 1870-1990 Dani Rodrik, “Getting Interventions Right: How South Korea and Taiwan Grew Rich,” Economic Policy 20, (1995) pp. 55-107. Edward J. Lincoln, “Japan's Financial Problems,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1998), pp. 347-385. http://ideas.repec.org/a/bin/bpeajo/v29y1998i1998-2p347-385.html Anil Kashyap, “Sorting Out Japan's Financial Crisis,” Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives 2002 (fourth quarter), pp. 42-55. http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/08/econ-115-lecture-topics-readings-and-assignments.html
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Economic Perspectives 2002 (fourth quarter), pp. 42-55. F Oct 30: Essay due: coming to terms with totalitarianism... http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823d T Nov 3: 1980: At the Peak of the Great Divergence: One World Unequal and Very Divisible Lant Pritchett, “Divergence, Big Time,” Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 1997), pp.317 Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 435-453 (Chapter 19). Th Nov 5: Social Democracy Exhausted: 1970-1995 Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 403-418 (Chapter 14, parts I-II). Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, chapter 5. Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapter 16. F Nov 9: Problem set: economic growth across countries T Nov 10: Neocolonialism and Neoliberalism Triumphant, 1980-2000 Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning, “Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?” Journal of Economic Perspectives (1999), pp. 3-22. John H. Coatsworth, “Structures, Endowments, and Institutions in the Economic History of Latin America, Latin American Research Review 40 (2005), pp. 126-144. Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapters 17 and 19. Th Nov 12: Decommunization, 1975-2010 Johannes Linn, “Ten Years of Transition in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Good News and the Not-So-Good News,” in Mario Blejer and Marko Skreb (eds.), Transition: The First Decade (MIT Press, 2002), pp. 15-44 Hans-Werner Sinn, “The Withering East,” in Can Germany Be Saved? (MIT Press, 2007), First part of chapter 5, pp 139-161. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 471-499 (Chapter 16, parts II-VI). F Nov 13: Essay: California poitics since the revolt of the haves... http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823c T Nov 17: China (and India) Stand Up, 1975-2010 Gregory C. Chow, “How and Why China Succeeded in Her Economic Reform,” China Economic Review (1993), pp. 117-128. http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/chieco/v4y1993i2p117-128.html Dani Rodrik and Arvind Subraminaian, “From Hindu Growth to Productivity Surge: The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition,” NBER Working Paper no. 10376 (March 2004). http://papers.nber.org/papers/w10376.pdf. Th Nov 19: THIRD EXAM (1950-2010) T Nov 24: NO CLASS Th Nov 26: NO CLASS T Dec 1: The Great Global Leap Forward, 1940-2020 http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/08/econ-115-lecture-topics-readings-and-assignments.html
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Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 522-557 (Chapter 18). Jeffrey Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 413-434 (Chapter 18). Th Dec 3: Things Falling Apart? 2000-2100 Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, chapter 6 and chapter 7. Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapter 20. Andrew Berg, “The Asian Crisis: Causes, Policy Responses and Outcomes,” IMF Working Paper no. 99/138 (October 1999). http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3295.0 Olivier Blanchard, “The Economic Future of Europe,” Journal of Economic Perspectives (2004), pp. 3-26. Nicholas Stern et al., "The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change: Executive summary" http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/Executive_Summary.pdf F Dec 18: FINAL EXAM 12:30-3:30pm (Group XVII) rated 4.0 by 3 people [?] You might like:
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Comments You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. Why are you still assigning Subramanian and Rodrik on the Indian growth surge? Ascribing growth to a vague idea of an attidudinal shift, or some nonsensical distinction between "pro-market" and pro-business" orientation is hardly good training for your students. T. N. Srinivasan and Panagariya have been pointing out for years that 80s growth was unsustainable and due to hestitant reforms and fiscal expansion, and the 1991 reforms were real and important. Posted by: Thorfinn | August 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
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