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Peace and Conflict Geographies

3-0-9 units · Graduate

Explores the spatialization of conflict and peace from perspectives within the humanities and social sciences. Examines claims on territory, resources, and homeland; traces the legacies of violence in landscapes both personal and public; considers the use of planning and architecture to build peace; and attends to experiences of displacement and dispossession. Discusses how conflict and peace geographies provide insight into various scales of power and repair that shape how individuals live together.

Fall 2005 · Economic Institutions and Growth Policy Analysis

Topics

  • Introduction
  • The Division of Labor and the Problem of Coordination
  • Economics Institutions
  • The Corporation: Hierarchies and Markets
  • Classic Bureaucracy
  • Street Level Bureaucracy
  • Types of Firms: Optimum Firm Structure
  • Culture
  • Economie Du Convension
  • Institutions and Globalism
  • Evolutionary Theories

Readings

  • SES #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction · READINGS: Powell, Walter, and Paul DiMaggio. “Introduction.” In The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991, pp. 1-38. ISBN: 9780226677095.
    Reading assignment
  • Hall, Peter, and Rosemary Taylor. “Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms.” Political Studies (1996): 936-957. Butterworth Scientific.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 2 · TOPICS: The Division of Labor and the Problem of Coordination · READINGS: Putterman, Louis, and Randall Kroszner. The Economic Nature of the Firm: A Reader . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780521311403. (Excerpts from Smith, Marx, Knight, Hayek.)
    Reading assignment
  • Geertz, Clifford. Peddlers and Princes: Social Change and Economic Modernization in Two Indonesian Towns . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1968. ISBN: 9780226285146.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 3 · TOPICS: Economics Institutions · READINGS: North, Douglas. Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521397346.
    Reading assignment
  • Alchian, Arman, and Harold Demsetz. “Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization.” American Economic Review 62 (1972): 777-795.
    Listed reading
  • North, D. C. “Institutions, Transaction Costs and Economic Growth.” Economic Inquiry 25, no. 3 (1987): 419-428.
    Listed reading
  • ———. “Economic Performance Through Time.” American Economic Review 84, no. 3 (1994): 359-368.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 4 · TOPICS: The Corporation: Hierarchies and Markets · READINGS: Coase, Ronald. “The Nature of the Firm.” Economica 4 (1937): 386-405.
    Reading assignment
  • Chandler, Alfred. The Visible Hand . Paris, France: Economica, 1989. ISBN: 9782717816914. (Excerpt.)
    Listed reading
  • Williamson, Oliver. “The Institutions and Governance of Economic Development and Reform.” Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics , 1994. (Comments by Robert D. Putnam and Peter Murrell.)
    Listed reading
  • Jensen, Michael. “The Eclipse of the Public Corporation.” Harvard Business Review 67, no. 5 (1989): 61-74.
    Listed reading
  • Hart, Oliver. “An Economist’s Perspective on the Theory of the Firm.” Columbia Law Review 89, no. 7 (1989): 1757-1774.
    Listed reading
  • Gerschenkron, Alexander. “Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective.” In Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective . Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962, pp. 5-30. ISBN: 9780674226005.
    Listed reading
  • Amsden, Alice. “Three-Pronged Investment.” Chapter 5 in The Rise of ‘The Rest’: Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780195170597.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Classic Bureaucracy · READINGS: Weber, Max. “Bureaucracy.” In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology . Edited by H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York, NY: Oxford Press, 1958, pp. 196-244. ISBN: 9780195004625.
    Reading assignment
  • Crozier, Michel. The Bureaucratic Phenomenon . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1964, part 3, pp. 145-212. ISBN: 9780226121666.
    Listed reading
  • DiMaggio, Paul, and Walter Powell. “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields.” American Sociological Review 48 (1983): 147-60.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 6 · TOPICS: Street Level Bureaucracy · READINGS: Wilson, James Q. Varieties of Police Behavior . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968, pp. 1-139 and 278-299. ISBN: 9780674932104.
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 7 · TOPICS: Types of Firms: Optimum Firm Structure · READINGS: The New Corporation I
    Reading assignment
  • Piore, Michael, and Charles Sabel. The Second Industrial Divide . New York, NY: Basic Books, c1986, chapters 1-3 and 10, pp. 1-72 and 251-280. ISBN: 9780465075638.
    Listed reading
  • Powell, Walter. “Neither Market Nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization.” Research in Organizational Behavior 12 (1990): 295-336.
    Listed reading
  • Eccles, Robert, and Dwight Crane. Doing Deals: Investment Banks at Work . Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1988, introduction and chapter 1, pp. 1-34. ISBN: 9780875841991.
    Listed reading
  • Winograd, Terry, and Fernaldo Flores. Understanding Computers and Cognition . Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987, pp. 14-37. ISBN: 9780201112979.
    Listed reading
  • Putnam, Hilary. Pragmatism: An Open Question . Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1995. ISBN: 9780631193432.
    Listed reading
  • Piore, Michael. Beyond Individualism . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, chapters 4-5, pp. 95-139. ISBN: 9780674068971.
    Listed reading
  • Sabel, Charles. “Learning by Monitoring: The Institutions of Economic Development.” In Rethinking the Development Experience . Edited by L. Rodwin and D. Schon. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1994, pp. 231-274. ISBN: 9780815775515.
    Listed reading
  • Piore, Michael, Richard Lester, and Kamal Malek. The Division of Labor, Coordination, and Integration: Case Studies in the Organization of Product Design in the Blue Jeans Industry . MIT Industrial Performance Center Working Paper 97-005WP. Cambridge, MA: MIT Industrial Performance Center, 1997.
    Listed reading
  • The New Corporation II
    Listed reading
  • Chandler, Alfred, and Takashi Hikino. “The Large Industrial Enterprise and the Dynamics of Modern Economic Growth.” In Big Business and the Wealth of Nations . Edited by A. Chandler, F. Amatori, and T. Hikino. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 24-57. ISBN: 9780521481236.
    Listed reading
  • Amsden, Alice. “Industrializing Late,” “A New Control Mechanism,” and “Big Business.” Chapter 1, 2, and 8 in The Rise of ‘The Rest’: Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780195170597.
    Listed reading
  • Schneider, Ben Ross. “Elusive Synergy: Business-Government Relations and Development.” Comparative Politics (October 1998).
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 8 · TOPICS: Culture · READINGS: Cross-National Comparisons
    Reading assignment
  • Crozier, Michel. The Bureaucratic Phenomenon . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1964, part 4, pp. 213-314. ISBN: 9780226121666.
    Listed reading
  • Clarke, Rodney. The Japanese Company . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981, pp. 1-95 and 221-261. ISBN: 9780300026467.
    Listed reading
  • Westney, Eleanor. Imitation and Innovation: the Transfer of Western Organizational Patterns to Meiji Japan . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987, pp. 1-32 and 210-224. ISBN: 9780674444379.
    Listed reading
  • Within Organizations
    Listed reading
  • Kunda, Gideon. Engineering Culture . Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780877228455.
    Listed reading
  • Kreps, D. “Corporate Culture and Economic Theory.” In Perspectives on Positive Political Economy . Edited by J. Alt and K. Shepsle. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521398510.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 9 · TOPICS: Economie Du Convension · READINGS: Wagner, Peter. “Dispute, Uncertainty and Institution in Recent French Debates.” Journal of Political Philosophy 2, no. 3 (1994): 270-289.
    Reading assignment
  • Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521405997.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 10 · TOPICS: Institutions and Globalism · READINGS: Piore, Michael. “Rethinking International Labor Standards.” Mimeo, Department of Economics, MIT, 2000. For presentation at: Conference on Labor and the Globalization of Production. Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New School University, March 2002.
    Reading assignment
  • Amsden, Alice. “Macro-sweating Policies and Labour Standards.” In International Labour Standards and Economic Interdependence . Edited by W. Sengenberger and D. Campbell. Geneva, Switzerland: International Institute for Labour Studies, 1994, pp. 185-93. ISBN: 9789290145332.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 11 · TOPICS: Evolutionary Theories · READINGS: Knight, Jack. Institutions and Social Conflict . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 84-170. ISBN: 9780521421898.
    Reading assignment
  • North, Douglas. Structure and Change in Economic History . New York, NY: Norton, 1981. ISBN: 9780393952414.
    Listed reading
  • Nelson, Richard, and Sidney Winter. An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780674272286.
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: None G (Spring) 3-0-9 units

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