教學大綱 Syllabus

每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

Week 1-2/20         Overview and Introduction

• Making College Relevant,” New York Times, December 29, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/education/edlife/03careerism-t.html
• James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine, Theories of Political Economy (Cambridge, MA.: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 1-32.
• Naazneen H. Barma and Steven K. Vogel, eds., The Political Economy Reader, pp. 1-18.

Week 2-2/27         Adam Smith

• Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 21-40 (Smith).

Week 3-3/5        Karl Marx

• Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 41-62 (Marx, the Communist Manifesto, also available online at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

Week 4-3/12          List and Polanyi

•    Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 63-86 (List), 121-151      (Polanyi).

Week 5-3/19         Comparison of Smith, Marx, and Polanyi

•     Selective chapters from the Wealth of Nations, Capital, and The Great Transformation, to be assigned.

Week 6-3/26         Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman

• Charles Sackrey, Geoffrey Schneider, and Janet Knoedler, Introduction to Political Economy (Boston: Dollars and Sense, 2010), pp. 114-125 (Keynes).
• Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 91-105 (Hayek), 107-116 (Friedman).

Week 7-4/2           Industrial Revolution

• Eric J. Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire (New York: Penguin Books, 1968), pp. 13-55.

Week 8-4/9       The New Institutional Economics

• Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 175-183 (North), 185-194 (Williamson).
• Ronald Coase, “The Nature of the Firm,” Economica 4:16 (November 1937), pp. 386-405.

Week 9-4/16        Midterm 

Week 10-4/23     Economic Sociology

• Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 153-170 (Fligstein).
• Mark Granovetter, “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness,” American Journal of Sociology 91:3 (November 1985), pp. 481-510.

Week 11-4/30        Late Development and Developmental State

• Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 199-210 (Rostow), 211-228 (Gerschenkron), 259-287 (Johnson).  

Week 12-5/7       Dependency Theory and Development Predicaments

• Peter Evans, Dependent Development (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 1979), pp. 14-34.  
• Andre Gunder Frank, “The Development of Underdevelopment,” in J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Bellone Hite, eds., The Globalization and Development Reader(Malden, MA.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), pp.76-84.
• Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 475-482 (de Soto).

Week 13-5/14          Regulation, Deregulation, Reregulation

• Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 333-339 (Seldon), 341-354 (Vogel).
• Robert Kuttner, Everything for Sale (Chicago, IL.: The University of Chicago Press 1996), pp. 225-39, 275-80.

Week 14-5/21        The Varieties of Capitalism (VOC) as a New Agenda

• Barma and Vogel, The Political Economy Reader, pp. 289-328 (Hall & Soskice).
• William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. 60-92.
• Bob Hancké, ed., Debating Varieties of Capitalism: A Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), chapter 9.

Week 15-5/28        The Rise of State Capitalism

• Ian Bremmer, “The Return of State Capitalism,” Survival: Global Politics and Strategy 50: 3 (2008), pp. 55-64.

Week 16       Final Report

Week 17       Individual Consultation

Week 18       General Review