Saturday, February 14, 2015

Readings for "Configuring the World: A Critical Political Economy Approach"

Week 0

Extra Readings

  • Cox, R.W. and Schechter, M.G. (2002). 'The political economy of a plural world: critical reflections on power, morals and civilization'. Psychology Press.Click here to read
  • Frieden, J., & Martin, L. L. (2002) 'International political economy: Global and domestic interactions” in I. Katznelson and H.V.Milner (eds) Political Science: The State of the Discipline, New York, 118–46. Click here to read
  • Mayer, T. (2006). 'The empirical significance of econometric models', University of California- Department of Economics. Working Paper. no. 06.20 Click here to read
  • Murphy, C. N., & Nelson, D. R. (2001) “International political economy: a tale of two heterodoxies” The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 3, 3, 393-412 (earlier version of same article) Click here to read
  • Musco,V. (1996) “What is Political Economy? Definitions and Characteristics” in V. Musco, The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal , Sage, 21-36. Click here to read
  • Payne, A. (2006). 'Key Debates in New Political Economy', Routledge. Click here to read

Week 1

Required Readings

  • Richard Griffiths, 'Readings Week One – Part 1: Population and GDP Current Values'  Click here to read
  • Richard Griffiths, 'Readings Week One – Part 2: GDP ppp and Poverty' Click here to read

Extra Readings

  • Anderson, B. (1989) “Imagined Communities” from B. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, London, 48-59. Click here to read
  • Costanza, R., Hart, M., Posner, S. and Talberth, J. (2009). "Beyond GDP: The Need for New Measures of Progress", Boston. Click here to read
  • Haggard, B. (2000). "The Gross Domestic Product and Alternative Economic and Social Indicators". Parliamentary Research Branch, London. Click here to read
  • Harley, J.B (1987) “The Map and the Development of the History of Cartography”, in J.B. Harley and D. Woodward, History of Cartography, Chicago Volume 1, 1-42. Click here to read 
  • Kirk, D. (1996) “Demographic Transition Theory”, Population Studies, 50, 1996, 361-387. Click here to read
  • Population Institute (2011)."From 6 Billion to 7 Billion. How population growth is changing and challenging our world". Click here to read
  • Stanton, E.A. (2007). "The Human Development Index: A History" PERI Working Paper, 127. Click here to read
  • Sagara, A.D and Najamb , A. (1998) “The human development index: a critical review” Ecological Economics,25,  3, 249–264. (Don’t forget that the Index has mutated since this was written - RTG). Click here to download the article

Database

Transcript of the lectures

  • PDF transcripts of the lectures including pictures and screenshots provided by our own CtW student, Sandy Landoll: Week 1

Week 2

Required Readings

Extra Readings

  • Bowles, S. and  Gintis, H. (2002) “Social Capital and Community Governance” The Economic Journal, 112, 483, 419-436. Click here to read
  • Grootaert, C.and van Bastelaer, T (2001). "Understanding and Measuring Social Capital: A Synthesis of Findings and Recommendations from The Social Capital Initiative". Social Capital Initiative Working Paper No. 24. Click here to read 
  • Guinnane, T.W. (2006). "Trust: A Concept Too Many". Yale Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper 907. Click here to read
  • Keefer, P. and  Knack, S. (2008) “Social Capital, Social Norms and the New Institutional Economics” In M.M. Shirley and C. Ménard (eds) Handbook of new institutional economics, Berlin Heidelberg, 701-725. Click here to read
  • McKnight, D. H. and Chervany, N. L. (2001). “Trust and distrust definitions: One bite at a time” In R.F.M. Singh and Y.H. Tan (eds) Trust in Cyber-societies. Berlin Heidelberg, 27-54. Click here to read
  • Putnam, R. (2001) “Social Capital: Measurement and Consequences” Canadian Journal of Policy Research, 2, 1, 41-51.Click here to read
  • Siisiäinen, M (2000). "Two Concepts of Social Capital: Bourdieu vs. Putnam". Paper presented at ISTR Fourth International Conference, Dublin, Ireland, July 5-8, 2000. Click here to read
  • Woolcock, M. and Narayan, D. (2000) “Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy” World Bank Research Observer, 15, 2, 225-249. Click here to read
Database

Transcripts of the lecture

  • PDF transcripts of the lectures including pictures and screenshots provided by our own CtW student, Sandy Landoll: Week 2

Week 3

Required Readings

Extra Readings

  • Alesina, A., Devleeschauwer, A., Easterly, W., Kurlat, S. and  Wacziarg, R. (2003) “Fractionalization” Journal of Economic Growth, 8(2), 155-194. Click here to read
  • Atkinson, A.B., Piketty, T. and Saez, E. (2011) “Top Incomes in the Long Run of History” Journal of Economic Literature, 49, 1, 3–71. Click here to read
  • Easterly, W. and Levine, R. (1997)“Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1203-1250. Click here to read
  • Lambart, K. (2010) What is hidden behind the indicators of ethnolinguistic fragmentation?  FERDI, (No. I07).Click here to read
  • Montalvo, J. and Reynal-Querol, M. (2002). "The Effect of Ethnic and Religious Conflict on Growth" PRPES Working Paper, No 15. Click here to read
  • OECD (2011) “An Overview of Growing Income Inequalities in OECD Countries: Main Findings” in OECD, Divided We Stand Why Inequality Keeps Rising, Paris. Click here to read
  • Posner, D. N. (2004) “Measuring ethnic fractionalization in Africa” American Journal of Political Science, 48, 4, 849-863. Click here to read
  • Simic, S. (2012) A critical reading of ‘The Spirit Level: why equality is better for everyone’, R. Wilkinson and K. Pickett. What is the scientific content of the book? CERES. Click here to read
  • Wade, R.W. (2014) “The Piketty Phenomenon and the Future of Inequality” Real World Economics Review, 69, 2-17.Click here to read

Database

Transcripts of the lecture

  • PDF transcripts of the lectures including pictures and screenshots provided by our own CtW student, Sandy Landoll: Week 3

Week 4

Required Readings

  • Arndt, Christiane and Oman, Charles. "The politics of governance ratings." Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, 1998. Click here to read

Extra Readings

  • Arndt, C. and Oman, C. (2006). "Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators, OECD". Paris. Click here to read
  • Cooper Drury, A., Krieckhaus, J. and Lusztig, M. (2006) “Corruption, Democracy, and Economic Growth” International Political Science Review, 27, 2,  121-136. Click here to read
  • Fukuyama, F. (2013). "What is Governance? Center for Global Development", Working Paper 314. Click here to read
  • Gerring, J., Bond, P. Barndt, W.T. and Carola Moreno, C. (2005). “Democracy and Economic Growth. A Historical Perspective” World Politics, 57, 323–364.Click here to read
  • Kaufmann, D., Kraay, A. and Mastruzzi, M. (2010). "The Worldwide Governance Indicators". Methodology and Analytical Issues, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 5430. Click here to read
  • Erickson, M.M. (ed) (2007). "Research on Corruption and Its Control The State of the Art", Washington. Click here to read
  • Tanzi, V. (1998). "Corruption around the World. Causes, Consequences, Scope and Cures", IMF Working Paper 98/63. Click here to read
  • M.A. Thomas, M.A. (2010) “What Do the Worldwide Governance Indicators Measure?” European Journal of Development Research, 22, 1, 31–54. Click here to read
  • UN, DESA, (2007). "Public Governance Indicators: A Literature Review", New York. Click here to read

Database

Transcripts of the lecture

  • PDF transcripts of the lectures including pictures and screenshots provided by our own CtW student, Sandy Landoll: Week 4

Week 5

Required Readings

  • Hjertholm, Peter and White, Howard. "Survey of Foreign Aid: History, Trends and Allocation". Institute of Economics University of Copenhagen, 2000. Pages 3-36 and 45-54. Click here to read

Extra Readings

  • Acemoglu, D., Robinson, J.A. and Woren, D. (2012). "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty", New York.Click here to read 
  • Alesina, A. and Dollar, D. (1998) “Who Gives Foreign Aid to Whom and Why?” NBER Working Paper 6612. Click here to read
  • Arndt, C., Jones, S. and Tarp, F. (2011). "Aid Effectiveness: Opening the Black Box",  World Institute for Development Economics Research Working paper 44. Click here to read
  • Easterly, W. and Tobias Pfutze, T. (2008) “Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22, 2.Click here to read
  • Gates, S and Hoeffler A. (2004). "Global Aid Allocation: Are Nordic Donors Different?" CSAE Working Paper 2004-34. Click here to read
  • Kharas, H. (2007). "Trends and Issues in Development Aid", Wolfenson Center for Development Working Paper No 1. Click here to read
  • Rotberg, R.I. (2010) “Failed States, Collapsed States, Weak States: Causes and Indicators” in R.I Rotberg, When States Fail: Causes and Consequences, 1-25. Click here to read
  • Tingley, D. (2010) “Donors and domestic politics: Political influences on foreign aid effort”, The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 50 (2010) 40–49. Click here to read
  • Torres, M.M. and Anderson, M (2004). "Fragile States: Defining Difficult Environments for Poverty Reduction", PRDE Working Paper 1. Click here to read

Database

Transcripts of the lecture

  • PDF transcripts of the lectures including pictures and screenshots provided by our own CtW student, Sandy Landoll: Week 5

Week 6

No Required Readings

Extra Readings

  • Berry, C. (2008). "International political economy, the globalisation debate and the analysis of globalisation discourse". University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, Working Paper No 247. Click here to read
  • Buethe, T. and Milner, H.V. (2008) “The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment into Developing Countries: Increasing FDI through International Trade Agreements?” American Journal of Political Science, 52, 4, 741–762.Click here to read
  • Contessi, S. and Weinberger. A. (2009) “Foreign Direct Investment, Productivity, and Country Growth: An Overview” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 91, 2, 61-78. Click here to read
  • Eichengreen, B. and James, H. (2003) “Monetary and Financial Reform in Two Eras of Globalization” M.D. Bordo, A.M. Taylor, and J.G. Williamson (eds)Globalization in Historical Perspective, Chicago. Click here to read
  • Kiely, R. (2005). "The Clash of Globalisations. Neo-Liberalism", the Third Way and Anti-Globalisation, Leiden, Boston. Click here to read
  • Levi, M.D. (2005) 'International Finance', London, New York. Click here to read
  • Lipsey, R.E. (2009) “Measuring International Trade in Services” in M. Reinsdorf and M. J. Slaughter, International Trade in Services and Intangibles in the Era of Globalization, 27-70. Click here to read
  • Love, P. and  Lattimore, R. (2009). "International Trade Free, Fair and Open?: Free, Fair and Open?" OECD, Paris. Click here to read
  • Sen, S. (2005) “International Trade Theory and Policy: What Is Left of the Free Trade Paradigm?” Development and Change 36, 6, 1011–29. Click here to read
  • Robert C. Shelburne (2010)."The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact on Trade: The World and the European Emerging Economies", UN, ECE Discussion Paper. Click here to read
  • Tomz, M. (2002) “International Finance”, W. Carlsnaes, T. Risse, and B.A. Simmons, (eds.) Handbook of International Relations, 692-719. Click here to read

Database

Transcripts of the lecture

  • PDF transcripts of the lectures including pictures and screenshots provided by our own CtW student, Sandy Landoll: Week 6

Week 7

Required Readings

  • Mearsheimer, John J. "The False Promise of International Institutions," International Security, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Winter 1994/1995), pp. 5-49. Click here to read

Extra Readings

  • Bordo, M.D. (1993) “The Bretton Woods International Monetary System: A Historical Overview” M.D. Bordo and B. Eichengreen (eds.) A Retrospective  on the Bretton Woods System: Lessons for International Monetary Reform, 3-108.Click here to read
  • Brown, C.D. (2009) The WTO and GATT: A Principled History Brookings. Click here to read 
  • Boughton, J.M.  (2004) The IMF and the Force of History, Ten Events and Ten Ideas that have Shaped the Institution, IMF Working Paper 04/75. Click here to read
  • Grasstek, C van (2013). "The History and Future of the World Trade Organization", Geneva. Click here to read
  • Irwin, D,A. (1995) “The GATT in Historical Perspective” The American Economic Review, 323-328. Click here to read
  • Jönsson, C. and  Tallberg, G. (2011) “Institutional Theory in International  Relations” G. Peters, J. Pierre and G. Stoker (eds) Institutional Theory in Political Scienec. The New Institutionalism. Click here to read
  • Katzenstein, P.J., Keohane, R.O. and Krasner, S.D. (1998) “International Organization and the Study of World Politics” International Organization, 645-685.Click here to read
  • Keohane, R.O. (1998) “International Institutions: Can interdependence work?” Foreign Policy, 110, 82-96. Click here to read
  • Simmons, B.A. and Martin, L.L. (2001) “International Organizations and Institutions” in W. Carlness, T. Risse and B.A. Simmons, Handbook of International Relations, 192-211. Click here to read

Transcripts of the lecture

  • PDF transcripts of the lectures including pictures and screenshots provided by our own CtW student, Sandy Landoll: Week 7

    Week 8

    Extra Readings (will not appear in the final exam)

    • Corporate Europe Observatory (2014). "The Record of a Captive Commission. The ‘black book’ on the corporate agenda of the Barroso Commission".Click here to read
    • Drutman, L. (2011). "The Business of America is Lobbying. Explaining the growth of corporate political activity in Washington DC". Working Paper, 2010.Click here to read
    • Heemskerk, E.M., Daolio, F. and Tomassini, M. (2013) “The Community Structure of the European Network of Overlapping Directorates” Plos one, 10, 1371. Click here to read
    • Keck, Margaret E., and Kathryn Sikkink. "Transnational advocacy networks in international and regional politics." International Social Science Journal 51, no. 159 (1999): 89-101. Click here to read
    • Porter, M.E. (2008) “Five Competitive Forces that Shape Strategy” Harvard Business Review. Click here to read
    • Sassen, S. (2005) “The Global City. Introducing a Concept” Brown Journal of World Affairs, 9, 2, 27-43. Click here to read
    • Urban world: Mapping the economic power of cities. McKinsey Global Institute, 2011. Click here to read
    • Vitali, Stefania, James B. Glattfelder, and Stefano Battiston. "The network of global corporate control." PloS one 6.10 (2011): e25995. Click here to read

    Transcripts of the lecture

    • PDF transcripts of the lectures including pictures and screenshots provided by our own CtW student, Sandy Landoll: Week 8

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