| Lec # | Topics | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| I. The Challenge of International Integration in Historical Perspective | ||
| 1 | The First Globalization |  O'Rourke, K. H., and J. G. Williamson. Globalization and History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262650595.Bordo, M., B. Eichengreen, and D. Irwin. "Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization 100 years Ago?" National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 7195, 1999. |
| 2 | Trade and Politics | Rogowski, Ronald. "Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade." American Political Science Review 81, no. 4 (December 1987): 1121-1137. Gourevitch, Peter. Politics in Hard Times. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986, chapters 1-4. ISBN: 9780801494369. Goldstein, Judith. "Ideas, Institutions and American Trade Policy." International Organization 42, no. 1 (Winter 1998): 179-217. |
| II. International Economic Openness and Growth | ||
| 3 | Trade and the Postwar Growth System | Eichengreen, Barry. "Institutions and Economic Growth: Europe after World War II." In Economic Growth in Europe since 1945. Edited by Nicholas Crafts and Gianni Toniolo. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 38-72. ISBN: 9780521499644. Shonfield, Andrew. Modern Capitalism. London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1968, chapters 1-5. ISBN: 9780192870018. Ruggie, John. "International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Order." International Organization 36, no. 2 (Spring 1982): 379-415. Milward, Alan S. The European Rescue of the Nation State. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000, chapters 1, 2, and 4. ISBN: 9780415216296. |
| 4 | Trade and Development in the Postwar World | The World Bank. "Trade and Development in the Postwar World." In Rethinking the East Asian Miracle. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993, Overview, and chapters 1-3. ISBN: 9780195209938. Stiglitz, J., and S. Yusuf. Rethinking the East Asian Miracle. New York, NY: World Bank Press, 2001, chapters 9, 10, and 11. ISBN: 9780195216004. Moran, T., E. Graham, and M. Blomström. Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development? Washington, DC: Peterson Institute, 2005, chapters 2, 8, 11, and 14. ISBN: 9780881323818. |
| 5 | Fragmenting Production Systems | Sturgeon, Timothy. "Modular Production Networks: A New American Model of Industrial Organization." Industrial and Corporate Change 11, no. 3 (2002). Gourevitch, P., R. E. Bohn, and D. McKendrick. "Who is Us? The Nationality of Production in the Hard Disk Drive Industry." Data Storage Industry Globalization Project Working Paper No. 97-01, UCSD. Steinfeld, E. "Chinese Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Global Integration." MIT-IPC-02-001. |
| 6 | International Institutions | Helliner, Eric. States and the Re-emergence of Global Finance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994, chapters 1-4, and 9. ISBN: 9780801428593. Abdelal, Rawi. Capital Rules: Institutions and the International Monetary System. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, chapters 1, 6, 7, and 8. (Forthcoming) |
| III. Globalization and its Impact | ||
| 7 | Fragmentation and Development | Kaplinsky, Raphael. Globalization, Poverty and Inequality. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007, chapters 3 and 6. ISBN: 9780745635545. |
| 8 | Globalization and Institutional Convergence | Hall, Peter A., and David Soskice. The Varieties of Capitalism. London, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 1-68. ISBN: 9780199247752. Gourevitch, Peter, and James Shinn. Political Power and Corporate Control. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005, chapters 1, 2, and 4-7. ISBN: 9780691122915. |
| 9 | Inequality and Unemployment: The Effects of Globalization? | Iversen, Torben, and Anne Wren. "Equality, Employment and Budgetary Restraint: The Trilemma of the Service Economy." World Politics 50, no. 4 (July 1998): 507-546. Burtless, Gary. "International Trade and the Rise in Earnings Inequality." Journal of Economic Literature 33 (June 1995): 800-16. Sala-i-Martin, Xavier. "The Disturbing 'Rise' of Global Income Inequality." National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 8904, April 2004. |
| 10 | The End of Generous Welfare States? | Levy, Jonah. "Vice into Virtue: Progressive Politics and Welfare Reform in Continental Europe." Politics and Society 27, no. 2 (June 1999): 239-273. 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. Lindert, Peter. Growing Public. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, chapters 1, 10, and 11. ISBN: 9780521529167. |
| 11 | Globalization and Innovation | Zysman, John and Abraham Newman. How Revolutionary Was the Digital Revolution? Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006, introduction and parts 1-4. ISBN: 9780804753357. (Forthcoming) Ornston, Darius and Olli Rehn. "An Old Consensus in the 'New' Economy?" In How Revolutionary Was the Digital Revolution? Edited by John Zysman and Abraham Newman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006, introduction and parts 1-4. ISBN: 9780804753357. (Forthcoming) Levy, Jonah. The State after Statism: New State Activities in the Age of Liberalization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. (Forthcoming) |
| 12 | Globalization and Politics | Frieden, Jeffry. "Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance." International Organization 45 (1991): 425-451. Scheve, Kenneth, and Matthew Slaughter. "What Determines Individual Trade Policy Preferences?" National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 6531, April 1998. Ancelovici, Marcos. "Organizing Against Globalization: The Case of ATTAC in France." Politics and Society 30, no. 3 (September 2002): 427-463. |
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