Type of Credit: Partially Required
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
What is political economy? What are subjects of concern in the field of political economy? What are the approaches to the study of comparative political economy? What, if anything, does political economy have to do with our daily life? This course will introduce the intellectual history of political economy and survey contending approaches to the study of political economy. The aim of this course is to acquaint students with the theoretical tools to analyze debates related to contemporary global economy.
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REQUIREMENTS
This is a reading course. Seminar members should attend all class meetings and be prepared to discuss the assigned readings. To facilitate class discussion, each student is required to post her/his one-page, single-spaced response memo on Moodle 12 hours before each class. The memo should be a product of critical review of the issues related to the week’s topic rather than just a summary of the assigned readings. That said, you should at least be able to identify the main arguments of each reading, its counterarguments, its empirical evidence, its relevance to the current issues facing the global economy, and your critiques. By the end of the semester, students are also required to submit a long review essay of one books in the field of Political Economy. Students will choose the book in consultation with the instructor.
POLICIES
There will be no extensions for any written assignments and oral presentations. Late assignments will receive a grade of zero.
Plagiarism will not be tolerated. For a useful article about what constitutes plagiarism, see Kurt Weyland, “How to Assess Plagiarism of Ideas,” PS: Political Science and Politics 40: 2 (April 2007), pp. 375-376.
Classroom etiquette: Please arrive to class on time. Turn off your electronic devices while you are in class. If your cell phone rings during class, you will be asked to leave.
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
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CLASS SCHEDULE
Week 1 Course Introduction
Introduction
Part I ─ Contending Perspectives: Four Disciplines
Week 2 The Classics
Chapter intro
Smith (1776)
Week 3 The Classics
Marx & Engels (1848)
List (1841)
Week 4 The Liberal Paradigm
Chapter intro
Hayek (1944)
Friedman (1962)
Week 5 Economic Sociology
Chapter intro
Polanyi (1944)
Week 6 Economic Sociology
Fligstein (2001)
Week 7 The New Institutional Economics
Chapter intro
North (1981)
Williamson (1985)
Week 8 Historical Perspectives
Chapter intro
Rostow (1960)
Gerschenkron (1962)
Lands (1998)
Week 9 Political Science and Political Economy
Chapter intro
Lindbom (2001)
Johnson (1982)
Hall & Soskice (2001)
Week 10 Mid-term review / Book review proposal due
Part II ─ Contemporary Debates: Three Type of Market Reform
Week 11 Market Reform in Advanced Industrial Countries
Chapter intro
Seldon (1980)
Vogel (2007)
Week 12 Market Transition in Eastern Europe and China
Chapter intro
Sachs (2005)
Stiglitz (2002)
Hilary Appel and Mitchell A. Orenstein, “Why did Neoliberalism Triumph and Endure in the Post-Communist World?” Comparative Politics 48 (April 2016), 313-331.
Week 13 Market Transition in Eastern Europe and China
Guthrie (2006)
Edmund Malesky and Jonathan London, “The Political Economy of Development in China and Vietnam,” Annual Review of Political Science 17 (2014), 395-419.
Week 14 Market Development in Developing Countries
Chapter intro
Lal (1983)
Benno J. Ndulu, “The Evolution of Global Development Paradigms and their Influence on African Growth [through policy]," in Benno J. Ndulu et al, The Political Economy of Economic Growth in Africa: 1960-2000, New York: Cambridge UP, 2008, pp. 315-345.
Week 15 Market Development in Developing Countries
Chaudhry (1993)
De Soto (2001)
Week 16 Globalization and the Information Technology Revolution
Chapter intro
Friedman (1999)
Newman & Zysman (2006)
Week 17 Globalization and the Information Technology Revolution
Strange (1996)
Gilpin (2001)
Week 18 Review/ Book review due in class
Your final grade will be determined by the following criteria:
Class participation: 40%
Response memos: 30% (due at Moodle by 2 a.m. each Monday)
Book review: 30% (due in class on Jan 8, 2024)
COURSE MATERIALS
Naazneen H. Barma and Steven K. Vogel (eds.), The Political Economy Reader: Market as Institutions (New York & London: Routledge, 2008).
Articles and book chapters are available through electronic access via the library’s website and course website (Moodle).