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Development Strategies: From Vashington consensus to the Rise of the Beijing Model
Study Course Description
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Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:27
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | PZK_142 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | International Politics; Politics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Mārtiņš Vargulis | ||||||||
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| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
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| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
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| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 9 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 18 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 5 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 10 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 28 | ||||||||
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| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 2 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 3 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 4 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 5 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 6 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 7 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 8 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 9 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 10 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 11 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 12 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 13 | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
| 14 | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | ||||||
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| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Mokyr, Joel, “The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth,” European University Institute, Florence, 2007. | ||||||||
| 2 | Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2002. “The Rise of Europe: Institutional Change and Economic Growth,” American Economic Review, 95(3): 546-579. | ||||||||
| 3 | Charles I. Jones, “The Facts of Economic Growth,” NBER Working Paper No. 21142, May 2015. | ||||||||
| 4 | Easterly, William and Ross Levine. (2001). “What have we Learned from a Decade of Empirical Research on Growth? It’s Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models,” World Bank Economic Review, 15(2): 177-219. | ||||||||
| 5 | Rodrik, D., & World Bank. (2006). Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion? A Review of the World Bank's "Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning from a Decade of Reform". Journal of Economic Literature, 44(4), 973-987. | ||||||||
| 6 | Easterly, William. (2001). The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Chapters 1, 2, and 3. | ||||||||
| 7 | Hardin, Garrett. (1968). “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Science, (162): 1243-1248 | ||||||||
| 8 | Liebowitz, S. J.; Stephen E. Margolis. (1994). “Network Externality: An Uncommon Tragedy,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 8(2): 133-150 | ||||||||
| 9 | Rosenstein-Rodan, Paul N. 1943. “Problems of Industrialization of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe,” Economic Journal, 53(210/211): 202-211. | ||||||||
| 10 | Rodrik, Dani.1996. “Coordination Failures and Government Policy: A Model with Applications to East Asia and Eastern Europe," Journal of International Economics, 40(1-2):1-22. | ||||||||
| 11 | Chang, Ha-Joon. (2003). “Kicking Away the Ladder: Infant Industry Promotion in Historical Perspective,” Oxford Development Studies, 31, 21-32. | ||||||||
| 12 | Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., Robinson, J. (2001). “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” American Economic Review, Vol. 91(5): 1369-1401 | ||||||||
| 13 | Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, “Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 27, no. 2, Spring 2013, pp. 173–192. | ||||||||
| 14 | Jones, Ben and Benjamin Olken. (2005). “Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth since World War II,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(3): 835-864. | ||||||||
| 15 | Dani Rodrik, “When Ideas Trump Interests: Preferences, World Views, and Policy Innovations,” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28(1), Winter 2014, 189–208. | ||||||||
| 16 | Hausmann, Ricardo and Dani Rodrik. 2003. “Economic Development as Self-Discovery,” Journal of Development Economics, 72(2): 603-633. | ||||||||
| 17 | Rodrik, Dani, “Industrial Policy for the Twenty-First Century,” in One Economics, Many Recipes, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2007, 99-152. | ||||||||
| 18 | Kalouptsidi, Myrtro, “Detection and Impact of Industrial Subsidies: The Case of Chinese Shipbuilding,” Review of Economic Studies, 85, 2018, 1111-1158. | ||||||||
| 19 | Hausmann, Ricardo, D. Rodrik, A. Velasco, “Growth Diagnostics,” in J. Stiglitz and N. Serra, eds., The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New Global Governance, Oxford University Press, New York, 2008. | ||||||||
| 20 | Hausmann, Ricardo, Bailey Klinger, and Rodrigo Wagner, “Doing Growth Diagnostics in Practice: A 'Mindbook',” Harvard CID Working Paper 177, September 2008. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Hayek, F.A. (1945), “The Use of Knowledge in Society”, American Economic Review, Vol. 35(4): 519-530 | ||||||||
| 2 | Gollin, Douglas. "The Lewis Model: A 60-Year Retrospective." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 28, no. 3 (2014): 71-88. | ||||||||
| 3 | Dani Rodrik, “The Past, Present, and Future of Economic Growth”, in Franklin Allen and others, Towards a Better Global Economy: Policy Implications for Citizens Worldwide in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2014. | ||||||||
| 4 | Ostrom, E. (2000). “Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 14(3): 137-158 | ||||||||
| 5 | Murphy, Kevin M., Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W. Vishny. 1989. “Industrialization and the Big Push,” Journal of Political Economy, 97(5): 1003-1026. | ||||||||
