On two weeks of your own choosing, you will submit a short paper that examines one of the "Referenced Readings". In addition to summarizing the readings, the essay should provide a brief comparison with the core readings for the week. Each paper should be approximately three double-spaced typed pages in length. You may choose any two weeks during the semester to write your reaction papers. Each essay is worth ten points. Grades will be based on substance and style (grammar, spelling, and organization). The short essays are due at the beginning of the week the readings are assigned. The essays must be submitted in two forms: first, electronically on the Monday; and second as a hard copy on the Tuesday during class. The electronic copy will be emailed to the entire class. Papers will be graded down a full letter grade for each day they are submitted late.

Jan. 25 & 27 An Introduction to Contemporary Understandings of Globalization
Names: Steve Myers; Clark McGill
 
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).

 

 

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Feb. 1 & 3 On the State and Society

Names: Lina Piyavski; Clark McGill; Jessica Curtis

Topics: The state in historical perspective; society; civil society; "the governance gap"

Core Readings:

Held, 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:

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)

 


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Feb. 8 & 10 Shapes, Forces and Limits of Globalization

Names: Brenda Culler; Ralf Apley; Steve Myers; Nancy Starvaggi
Topics: Definitions of globalization; historical analogies; impact of national economies.

Core 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.*

Reference Readings

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.
 

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Feb. 15 & 17 Engaging Global Markets

Names: Kristina Spaude; Lina Piyavsky; Brenda Culler; Brittany Willging; Nicholas Dewey

Topics. Theories of comparative, competitive and institutional advantage

Core Readings

Gary 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.

 


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Feb. 22 Review Midterm

 

Feb. 24 Midterm 1

 

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   Varieties of capitalism

Feb. 29 & Introduction to the National Varieties of Capitalism

March 2

 Names: Kristina Spaude; Brittany Willging; Nancy Starvaggi

 Topics: Typologies of market economies; forms of economic coordination; main actors; economic and political institutions.

 

Core Readings

 Colin 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).

 


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March 7 & 9 Liberal Market Economies: Britain and the United States

Names: James Macris; Elle Tipayamahing; Jamie Cimaglio
 

Core Readings

J.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.

 

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March 14 Statist Capitalism - France and Japan

& 16

 Names: Elle Tipayamahing; Michael Bogdan; Byron Demery

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

 

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March 21 & 23 Spring Break

March 28 Corporatist Capitalism - Germany and Sweden

& 30

 Names: Brian Singleton; Sara Depaul; Ralf Apley

 

Core Readings:

Wolfgang 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.


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April 4 Review for Midterm 2

 

April 6 Midterm 2

 

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   Globalization and economic management

 Names: Jamie Cimaglio; Michael Bogdon; Laura Saliba; Benjamin King

Topics: data on economic globalization; North-South relations; development; role of the nation-state and transnational economic agents; end to the postwar settlements?

Core Readings
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).

Names: Laura Saliba; Byron Demery; Jessica Curtis; Benjamin King

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).
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.

May 4 Day of Rememberance