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Political Economy of Globalization
Spring 2006
Topics
- The First Globalization
- Trade and Politics
- Trade and the Postwar Growth System
- Trade and Development in the Postwar World
- Fragmenting Production Systems
- International Institutions
- Fragmentation and Development
- Globalization and Institutional Convergence
- Inequality and Unemployment: The Effects of Globalization?
- The End of Generous Welfare States?
- Globalization and Innovation
- Globalization and Politics
Readings
- Lec #: 2 · Topics: Trade and Politics · Readings: Rogowski, Ronald. “Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade.” American Political Science Review 81, no. 4 (December 1987): 1121-1137.
- Gourevitch, Peter. Politics in Hard Times . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986, chapters 1-4. ISBN: 9780801494369.
- Goldstein, Judith. “Ideas, Institutions and American Trade Policy.” International Organization 42, no. 1 (Winter 1998): 179-217.
- Lec #: 3 · Topics: Trade and the Postwar Growth System · Readings: Eichengreen, Barry. “Institutions and Economic Growth: Europe after World War II.” In Economic Growth in Europe since 1945 . Edited by Nicholas Crafts and Gianni Toniolo. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 38-72. ISBN: 9780521499644.
- Shonfield, Andrew. Modern Capitalism . London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1968, chapters 1-5. ISBN: 9780192870018.
- Ruggie, John. “International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Order.” International Organization 36, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 379-415.
- Milward, Alan S. The European Rescue of the Nation State . New York, NY: Routledge, 2000, chapters 1, 2, and 4. ISBN: 9780415216296.
- Lec #: 4 · Topics: Trade and Development in the Postwar World · Readings: The World Bank. “Trade and Development in the Postwar World.” In Rethinking the East Asian Miracle . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993, Overview, and chapters 1-3. ISBN: 9780195209938.
- Stiglitz, J., and S. Yusuf. Rethinking the East Asian Miracle . New York, NY: World Bank Press, 2001, chapters 9, 10, and 11. ISBN: 9780195216004.
- Moran, T., E. Graham, and M. Blomström. Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development ? Washington, DC: Peterson Institute, 2005, chapters 2, 8, 11, and 14. ISBN: 9780881323818.
- Lec #: 5 · Topics: Fragmenting Production Systems · Readings: Sturgeon, Timothy. “Modular Production Networks: A New American Model of Industrial Organization.” Industrial and Corporate Change 11, no. 3 (2002).
- Lec #: 6 · Topics: International Institutions · Readings: Helliner, Eric. States and the Re-emergence of Global Finance . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994, chapters 1-4, and 9. ISBN: 9780801428593.
- Abdelal, Rawi. Capital Rules: Institutions and the International Monetary System . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, chapters 1, 6, 7, and 8. (Forthcoming)
- Lec #: 7 · Topics: Fragmentation and Development · Readings: Kaplinsky, Raphael. Globalization, Poverty and Inequality . Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007, chapters 3 and 6. ISBN: 9780745635545.
- Hall, Peter A., and David Soskice. The Varieties of Capitalism . London, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 1-68. ISBN: 9780199247752.
- Gourevitch, Peter, and James Shinn. Political Power and Corporate Control . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005, chapters 1, 2, and 4-7. ISBN: 9780691122915.
- Iversen, Torben, and Anne Wren. “Equality, Employment and Budgetary Restraint: The Trilemma of the Service Economy.” World Politics 50, no. 4 (July 1998): 507-546.
- Burtless, Gary. “International Trade and the Rise in Earnings Inequality.” Journal of Economic Literature 33 (June 1995): 800-16.
- Levy, Jonah. “Vice into Virtue: Progressive Politics and Welfare Reform in Continental Europe.” Politics and Society 27, no. 2 (June 1999): 239-273.
- Swank, Duane. Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002, chapters 1, 7, and 8. ISBN: 9780521001441.
- Lindert, Peter. Growing Public . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, chapters 1, 10, and 11. ISBN: 9780521529167.
- Zysman, John and Abraham Newman. How Revolutionary Was the Digital Revolution? Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006, introduction and parts 1-4. ISBN: 9780804753357. (Forthcoming)
- Ornston, Darius and Olli Rehn. “An Old Consensus in the ‘New’ Economy?” In How Revolutionary Was the Digital Revolution? Edited by John Zysman and Abraham Newman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006, introduction and parts 1-4. ISBN: 9780804753357. (Forthcoming)
- Levy, Jonah. The State after Statism: New State Activities in the Age of Liberalization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. (Forthcoming)
- Frieden, Jeffry. “Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance.” International Organization 45 (1991): 425-451.
- Ancelovici, Marcos. “Organizing Against Globalization: The Case of ATTAC in France.” Politics and Society 30, no. 3 (September 2002): 427-463.
Sources
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