The Political Economy of Globalisation

Academic Year 2010-2011

The Political Economy of Globalisation

Readings

1.D.Baker, G. Epstein and R. Pollin (eds). 1998. Globalization and Progressive Economic Policies, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. (Especially articles by A. Bhaduri , and by J.Crotty, G. Epstein and P. Kelly).

2.J.Williamson(ed). 1996.Globalization and Inequality, Then and Now : the late nineteenth and late twentieth century compared, Oxford, Clarendon Press.

3.D. Nayyar(ed). 2002. Governing Globalization., Oxford, Oxford University Press. ( especially articles by A. Bhaduri, L. Taylor, D. Nayyar and J. Stiglitz).

4.Maddison, A.2001.The World Economy: a Millenial Perspective, OECD DevelopmentCentre, OECD, Paris. ( Especially Chapter 3 ).

5. Ha-Joon Chang, 2002. Kicking Away the Ladder, London, Anthem Press(especially chapters1,3).

6.D. Rodrik.1999. The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work,Washington, D.C, Overseas Development Council.

7.W. Easterly. 2001.The Elusive Quest for Growth, Cambridge, Massachusetts, M.I.T. Press.

8.S. Fisher. 2003. ‘ Globalization and its challenges’, AmericanEconomic Review( Papers and Proceedings), Vol 93, no.2.

9. W. Baumol, !986. ‘Productivity growth, convergence and welfare’, American Economic Review,pp.1072-85.

10.Y. Akyuz,H.J. Chang and R. Kozul-Wright, 1998.’New perspectives on east Asian development’, Journal of development Studies, vol34, no6,pp4-36.

11.K.Griffin, 2003. ‘Economic globalization and institutions of global governance’, Development and Change, vol34, no5,pp789-807.

12. Journal of Human Development, vol.2, no2. (Articles by J.I. Cohen on ‘Harnessing Biotechnology..’ and by Ha- Joon Chang on ‘Intellectual property rights..’.

13.R. Axelrod, R. 1984. Evolution of Cooperation, New York, Basic Books.

14.K. Polyani,1957. The Great Transformation, Boston, Beacon Press.

16.D. Rodrik, 1999.’Democracies pay higher wages’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol.114, pp.707-38.

17.G. Soros, 2002. On Globalization, New York, Public Affairs.

18.P. A. Samuelson,2004. ‘Where Ricardo and Mill rebut and confirm arguments ofmainstream economists supporting globalization’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol.18,no3,pp.135-146.

19. D. Nayyar, 2006. ‘Globalisation, history and development:a tale of two centuries’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, January, 2006.

20. A. K. Ghose,2003. Jobs and Incomes in a Globalizing World, ILO , Geneva, Chap3 ( on inequality) and Chap 5 (on migration).