| LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS | READING QUESTIONS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and Overview | Rosenberg, Tina. "The Free Trade Fix." New York Times Sunday Magazine, August 18, 2002. Crook, Clive. "Globalisation and its critics: A Survey of Globalisation." Economist 360, no. 8241 (2001).  Greider, William. One World, Ready or Not. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1997, chapters 1-2. ISBN: 9780684811413. Wolf, Martin. Why Globalization Works. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, chapters 6-8. ISBN: 9780300107777. | Questions (PDF) |
| Part I: Globalization: A New Economic Order? The Historical Antecedents | |||
| 2 | Domestic and International Economies in the 19th Century | Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2001, chapters 3-6, 12, and 21. ISBN: 9780807056431. Recommended Eichengreen, Barry J. Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and The Great Depression, 1919-1939. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1992, chapters 1-3. ISBN: 9780195064315. | Questions (PDF) |
| 3 | Globalization Before World War One | Angell, Norman. The Great Illusion. London, UK: The Knickerbocker Press, 1912, chapters 1-4. Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. Globalization in Question. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2001, chapters 1-2. ISBN: 9780745621647. Recommended Eichengreen, Barry J., et al. "Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization 100 years ago?" NBER Working Paper No. 7195 (June 1999). | Questions (PDF) |
| Part II: Creating the Global Economy | |||
| 4 | Trade and Politics | Gourevitch, Peter. Politics in Hard Times. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986, chapters 1-4. ISBN: 9780801494369. Wolf, Martin. Why Globalization Works. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, chapter 10. ISBN: 9780300107777. Morris, David. "Free Trade: The Great Destroyer." In The Case Against The Global Economy. Edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1997, pp. 218-228. ISBN: 9780871568656. | Questions (PDF) |
| 5 | Global Capital Flows | Strange, Susan. Casino Capitalism. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1983, chapters 1, 2, and 6. ISBN: 9780631150275. "Fear of Finance: A survey of the world economy." The Economist (September 19, 1992). Wolf, Martin. Why Globalization Works. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, chapter 13. ISBN: 9780300107777.Recommended Frieden, Jeffry. "Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance." International Organization 45 (1991): 425-451. | Questions (PDF) |
| 6 | Critics | Daly, Herman. "Free Trade: The Perils of Deregulation." In The Case Against The Global Economy. Edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1997, pp. 229-238. ISBN: 9780871568656. Wallach, Lori. Whose Trade Organization? Corporate Governance and the Erosion of Democracy. New York, NY: New Press, 2004, chapter 5. ISBN: 9781565848412. "Harvesting Poverty." (Read entire collection of editorials from New York Times.) | Questions (PDF) |
| 7 | Multinational Enterprises | Hirst, and Thompson. Globalization in Question. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2001, chapter 3. ISBN: 9780745621647. Berger, Suzanne. How We Compete. New York, NY: Currency, 2005, chapter 2-7. ISBN: 9780385513593. McKendrick, David. "Leveraging Locations." In Locating Global Advantage. Edited by M. Kenney and R. Florida. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, pp. 142-173. ISBN: 9780804747585. Recommended Sturgeon, T., and R. Florida., "Globalization, Deverticalization and Employment in the Motor Vehicle Industry." In Locating Global Advantage. Edited by Kenney and Florida. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, pp. 52-81. ISBN: 9780804747585. | Questions (PDF) |
| 8 | Globalization and Development | Hirst, and Thompson. Globalization in Question. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2001, chapter 5. ISBN: 9780745621647. World Bank, The East Asian Miracle. Washington, DC: A World Bank Policy Research Report, 1993, Overview and chapters 1-3. ISBN: 9780195209938. Mathews, J.,and Dong-Sung Cho. Tiger Technology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 29-102. ISBN: 9780521662697. Recommended Stiglitz, J., and S. Yusuf. Rethinking the East Asian Miracle. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001, chapter 9-11. ISBN: 9780195216004. | Questions (PDF) |
| Part III: The Consequences of Globalization | |||
| 9 | Can China and India Beat Us at our Own Game? | Steinfeld, E. "Cross-Straits Commercial Integration and Industrial Catch-Up: How Vulnerable is the Taiwan Miracle to an Ascendant Mainland?." In Global Taiwan. Edited by Suzanne Berger and Richard K. Lester. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005, chapter 8. ISBN: 9780765616166. Schultze, George. "Offshoring, Import Competition, and the Jobless Recovery." Brookings Institution Policy Brief 136, August 2004. Friedman, Thomas. The World is Flat. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. ISBN: 9780374292881. Berger, Suzanne. How We Compete. New York, NY: Currency, 2005, chapters 11-12. ISBN: 9780385513593.Recommended Samuelson, Paul. "Where Ricardo and Mill Rebut and Confirm Arguments of Mainstream Economists Supporting Globalization." Journal of Economie Perspectives 18, no. 3 (2004): 135-146. | Questions (PDF) |
| 10 | Does Globalization Increase Unemployment and Inequality? | Rodrik, Dani. Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1997. ISBN: 9780881322415. Wolf, Martin. Why Globalization Works. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, chapter 9. ISBN: 9780300107777. Wade, Robert. "Winners and Losers." The Economist, April 26, 2001. Recommended Sala-I-Martin, Xavier. "The Disturbing 'Rise' of Global Income Inequality." NBER Working Paper No. 8904, April 2002. | Questions (PDF) |
| 11 | Does Globalization Destroy the Power of the State? Are Reform and Redistribution Still Possible? | Wolf, Martin. Why Globalization Works. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, chapters 5 and 12. ISBN: 9780300107777. Swank, Duane. Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002, chapters 1, 7, and 8. ISBN: 9780521001441. Recommended Lindert, Peter. Growing Public. Vol. 1. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, chapters 1-2. ISBN: 9780521529167.Berger, Suzanne. "Globalization and Politics." In Annual Review of Political Science, 3 (2000). Berger, S., and R. Dore, eds. National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996, chapters Introduction, 1, 2, 5, 11, and 15. ISBN: 9780801483196. | Questions (PDF) |
| 12 | Globalization and Democracy | Monbiot, George. Manifesto for a New World Order. New York, NY: New Press, 2004, chapters 1-4 and 7. ISBN: 9781565849082. Wolf, Martin. Why Globalization Works. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005, chapter 11. ISBN: 9780300107777. | Questions (PDF) |
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