POLS 387-01: States and Markets
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction
- Session 1 (1/21/09):
- Session 2 (1/23/09):
- World Bank, World Development Report: Summary (1987): 1-14.
- World Bank, The East Asian Miracle, Oxford University Press (1993): 1-26.
- World Bank, “The Asian Miracle and Modern Growth Theory,” Policy Research Working Paper 1881 (February 1998): 1-27.
- Benjamin Powell, “State Development and Planning: Did it Create an East Asian Miracle?” Independent Institute Working Paper 54 (September 2004): 1-25.
- Paul Krugman (1994) “The Myth of Asia’s Economic Miracle,” Foreign Affairs.
Week 2: Re-thinking Globalization & Development
- Session 1 (1/28/09):
- Chang, pp. 1-102.
- Session 2 (1/30/09):
- Chang, pp. 103-222.
Week 3: The Developmental State (I)
- Session 1 (2/4/09):
- Peter Evans, “Predatory, Developmental, and Other Apparatuses: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective on the Third World State,” Sociological Forum 4, no. 4 (1989): 561-587. [JSTOR]
- Alice Amsden, “Diffusion of Development: The Late-Industrializing Model and Greater East Asia,” American Economic Review, vol. 81, no. 2, (May 1991): 282-286. [JSTOR]
- Robert Wade, “What can Economics Learn from East Asian Success?” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 505, The Pacific Region: Challenges to Policy and Theory, (September 1989): 68-79. [JSTOR]
- Session 2 (2/6/09)
- Woo-Cummings, pp. 1-92.
Week 4: The Developmental State (II)
- Session 1 (2/11/09)
- Woo-Cummings, pp. 137-234.
- Session 2 (2/13/09)
- Woo-Cummings, pp. 235-305.
Week 5: Market Failures and Government Activism
- Session 1 (2/18/09)
- Aoki et al, pp. 1-100.
- Session 2 (2/20/09)
- Aoki et al, pp. 101-160.
Week 6: Market-Enhancing View
- Session 1 (2/25/09)
- Aoki et al, pp. 163-232.
- Session 2 (2/27/09)
- Aoki et al, pp. 233-275.
Week 7: Government-Private Interactions
- Session 1 (3/4/09)
- Aoki et al, pp. 279-341.
- Session 2 (3/6/09)
- Aoki et al, pp. 342-406.
Week 8: Review
- Session 1 (3/11/09)
- Review/Catch-up Session
- Take-home Midterm Questions Given
- Session 2 (3/13/09) – No Class; Spring Break
Week 9: Case Study I - Japan
- Session 1 (3/25/09)
- Johnson, pp. 1-156.
- Session 2 (3/27/09)
- Johnson, pp. 157-324.
Week 10: Case Study I - Japan
- Session 1 (4/1/09)
- Amyx, pp. 1-146.
- Session 2 (4/3/09)
- Amyx, pp. 147-262.
Week 11: Case Study II & III – South Korea & Taiwan
- Session 1 (4/8/09)
- Kohli, pp. 1-123.
- Recommended:
- David C. Kang, “Bad Loans to Good Friends: Money Politics and the Developmental State,” International Organization56, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 177-207. [JSTOR]
- Pekka Korhonen (February 1994) “The Theory of the Flying Geese Pattern of Development and Its Interpretations,” Journal of Peace Research, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 93-108. [JSTOR]
- Bruce Cummings (Winter 1984) “The Origins and Development of the Northeast Asian Political Economy: Industrial Sectors, Product Cycles, and Political Consequences,” International Organization, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1-40. [JSTOR]
- Session 2 (4/10/09)
- Wade, pp. xiii – 158
- Recommended:
- Alice Amsden, “Taiwan’s Economic History: A Case of Etatisme and a Challenge to Dependency Theory,” Modern China 5, no. 3 (July 1979): 341-379. [JSTOR]
- Mitchell Bernard and John Ravenhill (January 1995) “Beyond Product Cylces and Flying Geese: Regionalization, Hierarchy, and the Industrialization of East Asia,” World Politics, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 171-209. [JSTOR]
- Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett (April 1998) “Contradictions of Capitalist Industrialization in East Asia: A Critique of Flying Geese Theories of Development,” Economic Geography, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 87-110. [JSTOR]
Week 12: Case Study II & III: South Korea & Taiwan
- Session 1 (4/15/09)
- Wade, pp. 159-296
- Session 2 (4/17/09)
- Wade, pp. 297-381
Week 13: Case Study IV – India
- Session 1 (4/22/09)
- Woo-Cummings, pp. 306-334.
- Session 2 (4/24/09)
- Kohli, pp. 219-288.
Week 14: Case Study IV – India
- Session 1 (4/29/09)
- Chibber, pp. 1-157.
- Session 2 (5/1/09)
- Chibber, pp. 161-254.
Week 15
- Final Papers Due