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Economic Development, Policy Analysis, and Industrialization

Graduate · Historical course

Fall 2004

Topics

  • Theory of Development: Closed Economy
  • Theory of Development: Open Economy
  • Problems of Underdevelopment
  • History of Late Industrialization
  • Government Intervention
  • Technological Capability Building
  • Production Capability: The Steel Industry
  • Project Execution Capability
  • Innovation Capability and Spillovers
  • Firm Formation
  • Trade and Foreign Investment
  • Wrapping Up

Readings

  • Smith, Adam. Chapter 1 “Of the Division of Labour,” chapter 2 “Of the Principle which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labour,” and chapter 3 quot;That the Division of Labour is Limited by the Extent of the Market." In The Wealth of Nations, Book I-III& (1776) . New York, NY: Penguin, New Edition, 1970. ISBN: 9780140400120.
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  • Lewis, W. Arthur. “Economic Development With Unlimited Supplies of Labour.” Manchester School of Economics and Social Studies 22, no. 2 (1954). And reprinted in Agarwala, A. N., and S. P. Singh, eds. The Economics of Underdevelopment . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780195606744.
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  • Ricardo, David. “On Foreign Trade.” Chapter 7 in The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Vol. 1, 1817. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996. ISBN: 9781573921091.
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  • Krugman, Paul R., and M. Obsfeldt. Chapter 2 “Labor Productivity and Comparative Advantage: The Ricardian Model,” and chapter 4 “Resources and Trade: The Heckscher-Ohlin Model.” In International Economics. 6th ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2002. ISBN: 9780201770377.
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  • Crouzet, F. “Western Europe and Great Britain: ‘Catching Up’ in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.” In Economic Development in the Long-Run . Edited by A. J. Youngson. London, UK: Macmillan Press, 1973, pp. 98-125. ISBN: 9780312228903.
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  • Baran, Paul A. The Political Economy of Growth. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 1957.
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  • Transactions cost
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  • North, D. C. “Institutions, Transactions Costs and Economic Growth.” Economic Inquiry 25 (1987).
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  • ———. “Economic Performance Through Time.” American Economic Review 84 (1994).
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  • Market Failure
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  • Stiglitz, J. “Markets, Market Failures and Development,” American Economic Review 79 (1989).
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  • Knowledge-Based Assets
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  • Amsden, A. H. The Rise of “The Rest”: Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. Chapter 1. ISBN: 9780195170597.
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  • Amsden, A. H. Chapter 2 “The Handloom Weaver’s Bones”, chapter 3 “ Rise of “ The Trials of Technology Transfer”, chapter 4 “The Three-Pronged Investment”, and chapter 5 “Manufacturing Experience Matters.” In Rise of “The Rest”. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780195170597.
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  • Clark, G. “Why Isn’t the Whole World Developed? Lessons from the Cotton Mills.” Journal of Economic History (March 1987).
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  • Wilkins, M. “Efficiency and Management: A Comment on Gregory Clark’s ‘Why Isn’t the Whole World Developed?’” Journal of Economic History (December 1987).
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  • Albert, B. South America and the World Economy from Independence to 1930. London, UK: Macmillan Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780333342237.
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  • Alejandro, C. Diaz. “No Less than One Hundred Years of Argentine Economic History Plus Some Comparisons.” Comparative Development Perspectives . Edited by G. Ranis, et al. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780865319844.
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  • Morris, M. D. “The Growth of Large Scale Industry to 1947.” The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol 2. Edited by D. Kumar and M Desai. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780521228022.
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  • Amsden, A. H. Rise of “The Rest” . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. Chapter 1, pp. ADD and chapter 6. ISBN: 9780195170597.
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  • Fishlow, A. “The Latin American State.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 4 (1990).
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  • Evans, P. Embedded Autonomy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780691037363.
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  • Amsden, A. H., ed. “The East Asian Miracle Report.” World Development . Special Issue (April 1994).
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  • Recommended Readings
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  • “World Bank Policy Research Reports.” The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy. Washington, DC: World Bank Publications, 1993. ISBN: 9780195209938.
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  • Fishlow, A., et. al., eds. Miracle or Design: Lessons from the East Asian Experience. Washington, DC: Overseas Development Council, 1996. ISBN: 9781565170155.
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  • Nelson, R. R. “Innovation and Economic Development: Theoretical Retrospect and Prospect.” Technology Generation in Latin American Manufacturing Industries . Edited by J. M. Katz. London, UK: Macmillan Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780312790028.
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  • Westphal, L., et. al. “Reflections on the Republic of Korea’s Acquisition of Technological Capability.” International Technology Transfer . Edited by Nathan Rosenberg and C. Frischtak. New York, NY: Praeger Publications, 1985. ISBN: 9780275902216.
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  • David, P. A. “Rethinking Technology Transfers: Incentives, Institutions and Knowledge-based Industrial Development.” In Chinese Technology Transfer in the 1990s: Current Experience, Historical Problems and International Perspectives . Edited by C. Feinstein and C. Howe. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997. ISBN: 9781858982458.
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  • Brazil: Dahlman, C., and F. V. Fonseca. “From Technological Dependence to Technological Development: The Case of Usiminas Steelplant in Brazil.” In Technology Generation in Latin American Manufacturing Industries. Edited by J. M. Katz. London, UK: Macmillan Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780312790028.
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  • India: Lall, S. Chapter on steel in Learning to Industrialize: The Acquisition of Technological Capability by India . Portland, OR: International Specialized Book Service, Inc., 1988. ISBN: 9780333433751.
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  • Korea: Amsden, A. H. “The Triumph of Steel.” Chapter 12 in Asia’s Next Giant. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780195058529.
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  • WEEK #: 10 · TOPICS: Project Execution Capability · readings: Amsden, A. H., and T. Hikino. “Project Execution Capability, Organizational Know-how and Conglomerate Corporate Growth in Late Industrialization.” Industrial and Corporate Change 3 (1994).
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  • Mathews, J. K. “A Silicon Valley of the East: Creating Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry” California Management Review 39(1997).
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  • (REF) Hobday, M. Innovation in East Asia. 1995.
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  • Alcorta, L., and W. Peres. “Innovation Systems andTechnological Specialization in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Research Policy 26 (1998).
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  • Amsden, A. H., A. Goto, and T. Tschang. “Classification of R&D Activity for International Comparisons (With a Case Study of Singapore).” Asian Development Bank Institute Working Paper (2000).
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  • Blomstrom, M., and A. Kokko. “Foreign Investment as a Vehicle for International Technology Transfer.” In Creation and Transfer of Knowledge: Institutions and Incentives. Edited by G. Barba Navaretti, et. al. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1998. ISBN: 9783540644262.
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  • Hobday, M. Innovation in East Asia: The Challenge to Japan . Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1995.
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  • Lim, Y. Public Policy for Upgrading Industrial Technology in Korea (1999).
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  • Amsden, A. H. Chapter 8 “National Leaders,” chapter 9 “From Mechanisms of Control to Mechanisms of Resistance.” In Rise of “The Rest” . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780195170597.
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  • Barbero, Ines M., “Argentina: Industrial Growth and Enterprise Organization, 1880s-1980s.” In Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Edited by A. Chandler, F. Amatori, and T. Hikino. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780521481236.
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  • Shapiro, H. “Determinants of Firm Entry into the Brazilian Automobile Manufacturing Industry, 1956-1968.” Business History Review (Winter 1991).
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  • Hoshino, T. “Indigenous Corporate Groups in Mexico: High Growth and Qualitative Change in the 1970s to the Early 1980s.” Developing Economies 28 (1990).
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  • Garrido, C. “National Private Groups in Mexico, 1987-1993.” CEPAL Review (August 1994).
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  • Agarwala. “The Development of Managerial Enterprises in India.” In Development of Managerial Enterprise. Edited by K. Kobayashi and H. Morikawa. Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780860083979.
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  • Suehiro, A. “Modern Family Business and Corporate Capability in Thailand: A Case Study of the CP Group.” Japanese Yearbook on Business History 14 (1997).
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  • Hiroyoshi, K. “Indonesian Business Groups and Their Leaders.” Asian Cultural Studies 28 (1989).
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  • Amsden, A. H. “Korea: Enterprising Groups and Entrepreneurial Government.” In Big Business and the Wealth of Nations. Edited by A. Chandler, F. Amatori, and T. Hikino. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780521481236.
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  • Smyth R. “Should China be Promoting Large-Scale Enterprises and Enterprise Groups?” World Development 28 (2000).
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  • Amsden, A. H., and W. W. Chu. “The Maturation of an Emerging Economy: Taiwan’s Transformation_.”_ 2000.
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  • Baldwin, R. E. “The Case Against Infant-Industry Tariff Protection.” Journal of Political Economy (June 1977).
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  • Amsden, A. H. “Selective Seclusion.” Chapter 7 in Rise of “The Rest”. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780195170597.
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  • Bruton, H. J. “A Reconsideration of Import Substitution.” Journal of Economic Literature 36 (1998).
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  • Bhagwati, J. N. “Export Promotion as a Developmental Strategy.” In Economic Policy and Development: New Perspectives. Edited by T. Shishido and R Sato. Dover, MA: Auburn House, 1985. ISBN: 9780865691209.
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  • Dollar, D. “Outward-Oriented Developing Countries Really Do Grow More Rapidly: Evidence from 95 LDCs, 1976-1985.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 40 (1992).
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  • Helleiner, G. K. Trade, Trade Policy and Industrialization Reconsidered . Helsinki, Finland: United Nations Publications, 1996. ISBN: 9789529520299.
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  • Hymer, S. The International Operations of National Firms: A Study of Direct Foreign Investment . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1976. ISBN: 9780262080859.
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  • Lall, S., ed. “Multinationals and Technology Development in Host Countries.” In Transnational Corporations and Economic Development. London, UK: Routledge, 1996. ISBN: 9780415141109.
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  • Fritsch, W., and GHB Franco. “Foreign Direct Investment and Patterns of Industrialization and Trade in Developing Countries: The Brazilian Experience.” In Trade Policy, Industrialization, and Development: New Perspectives. Edited by G. K. Helleiner. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780198283591.
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  • Schive, C., and J-H Tu. “Foreign Firms and Structural Change in Taiwan.” In Direct Foreign Investment in Asia’s Developing Economies and Structural Change in the Asia-Pacific Region. Edited by E. D. Ramstetter. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780813310794.
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  • Tran, V. T. “Foreign Capital and Technology in the Process of Catching Up by the Developing Countries: the Experience of the Synthetic Fiber Industry in the Republic of Korea.” The Developing Economies 26 (1988).
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  • Krugman, P., and L. Taylor. “Contractionary Effects of Devaluation.” Journal of International Economics 8 (1978).
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  • Amsden, A. H. Chapter 9, ADD, and chapter 10 ““The Rest” Will Rise Again.” In Rise of “The Rest”. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780195170597.
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  • Gerschenkron, A. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962. ISBN: 9780674226005.
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