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Week 2 | Week 6 | Week 10 | Week 14 |
Week 3 | Week 7 | Week 11 | Week 15 |
Week 4 | Week 8 | Week 12 |
I. THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Jan. 18 Welcome and Introduction
No readings!
Jan. 20 Global visions
Core ReadingsVeseth, Michael. Selling Globalization (1998 Lynn Rienner Publishers). Chapters 1 & 2. {This reading will be passed out in class}
**Make sure you have selected two weeks when you
will write your short reading essays**
Jan. 25 & 27 An Introduction to Contemporary Understandings of Globalization
Topics: Popular interpretations of globalization and its consequences
for ideology, institutional diversity, economic policy, work, and the nation
state.
Core Readings:Hirst and Thompson, Globalization in Question. Introduction.
Reference Readings:
Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History" The National Interest (Summer 1989) Jeremy Rifkin, The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era (Tarcher/Putman, 1996). Kenichi Ohmae, The End of the Nation State: The Rise of Regional Economies (Harper Collins, 1995). R.J. Barry Jones, Globalisation and Interdependence in the International Political Economy (Pinter, 1995). Linda Weiss, Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1998).
Feb. 1, 3, 8 & 10 On the State and Society
Topics: The state in historical perspective; society; civil society; "the governance gap"
Core Readings:Week 5Held, et al. Global Transformations: Chapter 1*
Peter Evans, "The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization," World Politics 50 (October 1997): 62-87.*
Philippe Cerny, "International Finance and the Erosion of Capitalist Diversity" in Crouch and Streeck.Reference Readings:
Hirst and Thompson, Globalization in Question Chapters 2 and 3.
Deanne Julius, "Globalization and Stakeholder Conflicts: A Corporate Perspective" International Affairs 73 (3, 1997): 453-468.*
Robert Wade, "Globalization and Its Limits: Reports of the Death of National Economy are Greatly Exaggerated," in S. Berger and R. Dore, (eds.) National Diversity and Global Capitalism (Cornell University Press, 1996).
Jan Aart Scholte, "Global Capitalism and the State," International Affairs (3, 1997): 427-452.
Susan Strange, The Retreat of the State: The Diffusion of Power in the World Economy (Cambridge UP, 1996)
Dani Rodrik, "Sense and Nonsense in the Globalization Debate," Foreign Affairs (Summer, 1997): 19-36.
Michael Borrus and John Zysman, 1997. "Globalization with Borders: The Rise of Clientelism as the Future of Global Competition," Industry and Innovation 4(2): 141-166.
Bob Jessop, "Capitalism and its Future: Remarks on Regulation, Government and Governance," Review of International Political Economy 4 (Autumn 1997): 561-581.
Feb. 15 & 17 Engaging Global Markets
Topics. Theories of comparative, competitive and institutional advantage
Core ReadingsWeek 6Gary Burtless, Robert Lawrence, Robert Litan, and Robert Shapiro. Globaphobia Chapters 1-3.
Michael Porter, "The Competitive Advantage of Nations," Harvard Business Review (March 1990).*Reference Readings
David Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation (London: John Murray [1821]) Chapter on Trade.
David Soskice, "The Institutional Infrastructure for International Competitiveness: A Comparative Analysis of the UK and Germany" in Atkinson and Brunetta (eds.) Economics for the New Europe (NYU UP, 1991) pp. 45-66.
Yao-Su Hu, "The International Transferability of the Firm's Advantages" California Management Review 37 (4, 1995): 73-88.
Feb. 22 Review Midterm
Feb. 24 Midterm 1
II. VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM
Feb. 29 & March 2 Introduction to the National Varieties of Capitalism
Topics: Typologies of market economies; forms of economic coordination;
main actors; economic and political institutions.
Core ReadingsColin Crouch and Wolfgang Streeck, "Introduction: The Future of Capital Diversity," in Crouch and Streeck.
Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer, "Coordination of Economic Actors and Social Systems of Production," in J. Rogers Hollingsworth and Robert Boyer, ed., Contemporary Capitalism: The Embeddness of Institutions (New York: Cambridge UP, 1997).*Reference Readings
Francis Fukuyama, Trust: The Social Virtues of the Creation of Prosperity (Free Press, 1995).
Peter Hall, Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France (Oxford UP, 1986).
Geoffrey Hodgson, "Varieties of Capitalism and Varieties of Economic Theory," Review of International Political Economy 3 (3, 1996).
John Zysman, "How Institutions Create Historically Rooted Trajectories of Growth" Industrial and Corporate Change 3(1, 1994): 243-283.
Michel Albert, Capitalism vs. Capitalism (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1983).
Paul Windolf and Jürgen Beyer, "Co-operative Capitalism: Corporate Networks in Germany and Britain," British Journal of Sociology 47 (2, 1996).
March 7 & 9 Liberal Market Economies: Britain and the United
States
Core ReadingsWeek 9J.R. Hollingsworth, "The Institutional Embeddedness of American Capitalism" in Crouch and Streeck.
Andrew Graham, "The UK 1979-95: Myths and Realities of Conservative Capitalism," in Crouch and Streeck..Reference Readings
W.G. Runciman, "Has British Capitalism Changed Since the First World War?" British Journal of Sociology 44 (1, 1993): 53-67.
Jill Rubery, "The British Production Regime: A Societal-Specific System?" Economy and Society 23 (August, 1994): 335-354.
William Lazonick, Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy (Cambridge UP, 1991).
Margaret Weir, Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the US.
March 14 & 16 Statist Capitalism - France and Japan
Core Readings:Robert Boyer, "French Statism at the Crossroads," in Crouch and Streeck.
Ronald Dore, "The Distinctiveness of Japan" in Crouch and Streeck.Reference Readings
Hart, Jeffrey 1992. Rival Capitalists. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Peter Hall, Governing the Economy.
Chalmers Johnson MITI & The Japanese Miracle
John Zysman, Governments, Markets & Growth
MARCH
21 & 23 SPRING BREAK
March 28 & 30 Corporatist Capitalism - Germany and Sweden
Core Readings:Week 11Wolfgang Streeck, "German Capitalism: Does it Exist?" in Crouch and Streeck.
Jonas Pontusson, "Between Neo-Liberalism and the German Model: Swedish Capitalism in Transition," in Crouch and Streeck.Referenced Readings
Markovits, A. 1982. The Political Economy of West Germany. New York, Praeger Publishers.
Dyson, K. 1992. "Theories of Regulation and the Case of Germany: A Model of Regulatory Change" in K. Dyson The Politics of German Regulation.. England, Dartmouth.
Kelman, S. 1981. Regulating America, Regulating Sweden: A Comparative Study of Occupational Safety and Health. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.
April 6 Midterm 2
III. GLOBALIZATION AND ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
April 11 & 13 Consequences of Economic Globalization
Topics: data on economic globalization; North-South relations; development; role of the nation-state and transnational economic agents; end to the postwar settlements?
Burtless et. al Globaphobia Chapters 5 & 6.
Ethan Kapstein, "Workers and the World Economy" Foreign Affairs (May/June
1996).
Referenced Readings
Andrew Hurrell and Ngaire Woods, "Globalization and Inequality," Millennium
4 (3, 1995).
Dani Rodrik, Has Globalization Gone Too Far? (Institute for International
Economics, 1997).
The Group of Lisbon, Limits to Competition (The MIT Press, 1995).
Lynn Weiss, The Myth of the Powerless State (Cornell UP, 1998).
April 18 & 20 Governance
Topics: Globalization's impact on domestic and international forms
of governance.
Core Readings:Hirst and Thompson, "Globalization, Governance and the Nation-State."
Robert Wright. 2000. "Continental Drift: World government is coming. Deal with it." The New Republic (January 17), pp. 18-23. (Available in Political Science Reading Room, Bowman 302). {Two copies available in the Main Library Reserve for copying}
Andrew Massey, 1997. "In Search of the State: Markets, Myths and Pardigms." In Massey (ed.) Globalization and Marketization of Government Services NY: St. Martin's Press, pp. 1-15. {Two copies available in the Main Library Reserve for copying}
April 25 & 27 New Challenges - The digital world
Topics: sources, consequences, and regulation of new information
Core ReadingsWeek 15William Greider, "The Cyberspace of '99" Rolling Stone Magazine (August 19, 1999)
Andrew Shipiro, "The Internet" Foreign Policy (Summer 1999).Reference Readings
Debora Spar, "The Public Face of Cyberspace," in Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Centruy, eds. Kaul, Grunberg, and Stern (Oxford UP, 1999).
Joel Reidenberg, "Governing Networks and Rule-Making in Cyberspace" in Borders in Cyberspace eds. Kahin and Nesson.
Gene Rochlin, Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization (Princeton UP, 1997).
May 2 Review and Wrap-Up
May 4 Day of Rememberance
FINAL EXAM