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11/29/2009

Econ 115: Lecture Topics, Readings, and Assignments

Economics 115: Fall 2009: TTh 12:30-2, F295 Haas

http://delong.typepad.com/slouching

Lecture Topics, Readings, and Assignments

Office Hours. Brad DeLong's office hours for this course are on Thursday 11-12:30, at the Business School cafeteria; [email protected].

Josh Hausman's office hours: Thursday after class Until 4 in Evans 608-3.
Theocharis Grigoriadis office hours : 2-4pm on Mondays in Evans 608-1.

M Aug 24: Before class begins: http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823b

Th Aug 27: Overview: Slouching Towards Utopia?

Powerpoints: http://delong.typepad.com/slouching/2009/08/twentieth-century-economic-history-econ-115-introductory-lecture--powerpoints.html Audio: http://delong.typepad.com/slouching/2009/08/econ-115-audio-lecture-1--overview-august-27-2009.html

T Sep 1: Slow Income Growth and the Absolute Poverty of the North Atlantic, 1800-1870

Th Sep 3: No Income Growth and the Dire Absolute Poverty of the Globe, 1800-1870

F Sep 4: Essay due: why I am taking this class... http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823g

T Sep 8: The Invention of Invention: Modern Economic Growth Comes to the North Atlantic, 1870-1914

Th Sep 10: The Iron-Hulled Ocean-Going Steamship: One Economic World, Indivisible, 1870-1914

F Sep 11: Problem set due: growth accounting and the coming of modern economic growth... Answers

T Sep 15: Democracy, 1870-1914

Th Sep 17: Empire, 1870-1914

F Sep 18: Problem set due: gains from international trade

Lecture Audio Files for Classes Before First Exam: http://delong.typepad.com/slouching/2009/09/econ-115-fall-2009-lecture-audio-files-before-world-war-i.html

T Sep 22: FIRST EXAM (pre-WWI/police the reading/instructor reality check)

Th Sep 24: The Knot of War: 1914-1920 and After

T Sep 29: Trying to Keep Believing in Progress, 1920-1929

Th Oct 1: The Business Cycle and the Great Depression, 1825-1940 Continued to T Oct 6 and (probably) Th Oct 8: Class October 8 Moved to Chevron Auditorium in International House

F Oct 2: Essay due: where my ancestors were in 1914-1945... http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823f

T Oct 6 13: Nazis, Bolsheviks, Fascists, Socialists, and Social Democrats, 1870-1933

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 109-141 (Chapters 2 and 4).
  • Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 195-252 (Chapters 9-10).

Th Oct 13 15: Total War

F Oct 9 16: Problem set due: the Great Depression

T Oct 20: SECOND EXAM (1914-1973)

Th Oct 8 22: Dealing with the Imperial West, 1914-1950 I

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 199-224 (Chapter 7).

T Oct 27: Dealing with the Imperial West, 1914-1950 II, and Cold Peace, 1933-1955

  • Peter Howlett, “The Legacy of the Second World War,” in Max-Stephan Schulze (ed.), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change Since 1945 (Longman, 1999), chapter 1, pp. 5-22.
  • Till Geiger, “Reconstruction and the Beginnings of European Integration,” in Max-Stephan Schulze (ed.), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945 (Longman, 1999), Chapter 3, pp. 23-41.
  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 36-53 (Chapter 1, parts II-IV).

Th Oct 15 29: Social Democracy in One (North Atlantic) Region, 1920-1975

  • N.F.R Crafts, “The Great Boom, 1950-73,” in Max-Stephan Schulze (ed.), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945, chapter 4, pp. 42-62.
  • Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, chapter 4.
  • Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 257-274 (Chapter 9, parts I-III).
  • Larry Neal and Daniel Barbazat, The Economics of the European Union and the Economies of Europe (Oxford University Press, 1998), chapter 4, pp. 70-87.
  • Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapters 11 and 12.

F Oct 16 30: Essay due: economic growth and the difference it made, 1914-1973 http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823e

T Oct 22 Nov 3: From Colonialism to Neocolonialism: Import Substitution, State Building, and Divergence, 1940-1980

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 344-352 (Chapter 12, parts I-II).
  • Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 301-320 (Chapter 13).

Th Oct 27 Nov 5: Stalin, Mao, and Their Heirs 1926-1990; Japan and the Stubborn Boundaries of the "First World", 1870-1990

  • Audio: Chairman Mao

  • Richard Ericson, “The Classical Soviet-Type Economy: Nature of the System and Implications for Reform,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 5:4 (Autumn) 1991, pp. 11-27.

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 344-352, 461-471 (Chapter 13, Chapter 16 part I).
  • Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 321-338 (Chapter 14).

F Oct 30 Nov 6: Essay due: coming to terms with totalitarianism... http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823d

T Nov 3 Nov 10 12: 1980: At the Peak of the Great Divergence: One World Unequal and Very Divisible; Social Democracy Exhausted: 1970-1995

  • Lant Pritchett, “Divergence, Big Time,” Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 1997), pp.3-17
  • Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 435-453 (Chapter 19).
  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 403-418 (Chapter 14, parts I-II).
  • Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, chapter 5.
  • Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapter 16.
  • Dani Rodrik, “Getting Interventions Right: How South Korea and Taiwan Grew Rich,” Economic Policy 20, (1995) pp. 55-107.
  • Edward J. Lincoln, “Japan's Financial Problems,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1998), pp. 347-385. http://ideas.repec.org/a/bin/bpeajo/v29y1998i1998-2p347-385.html
  • Anil Kashyap, “Sorting Out Japan's Financial Crisis,” Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives 2002 (fourth quarter), pp. 42-55.

T Nov 10 12 17: Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, DeCommunization 1980-2000

  • Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning, “Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?” Journal of Economic Perspectives (1999), pp. 3-22.
  • John H. Coatsworth, “Structures, Endowments, and Institutions in the Economic History of Latin America, Latin American Research Review 40 (2005), pp. 126-144.
  • Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapters 17 and 19.
  • Johannes Linn, “Ten Years of Transition in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Good News and the Not-So-Good News,” in Mario Blejer and Marko Skreb (eds.), Transition: The First Decade (MIT Press, 2002), pp. 15-44
  • Hans-Werner Sinn, “The Withering East,” in Can Germany Be Saved? (MIT Press, 2007), First part of chapter 5, pp 139-161.
  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 471-499 (Chapter 16, parts II-VI).

Th Nov 12 17 19: Social Democracy and Its Discontents II

Th Nov 19: THIRD EXAM (1950-2010) CANCELLED

T Nov 24: NO CLASS

Th Nov 26: NO CLASS

M Nov 13 30: Essay: California poitics since the revolt of the haves... http://tinyurl.com/dl20090823c CANCELLED

T Dec 1: China (and India) Stand Up, 1975-2010

T Dec 1: 2 PM: Post-Lecture Party

Th Dec 3: The Great Global Leap Forward? 1940-2100

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 522-557 (Chapter 18).
  • Jeffrey Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 413-434 (Chapter 18).
  • Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, chapter 6 and chapter 7.
  • Jeffry Frieden, Global Capitalism, chapter 20.
  • Andrew Berg, “The Asian Crisis: Causes, Policy Responses and Outcomes,” IMF Working Paper no. 99/138 (October 1999). http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3295.0
  • Olivier Blanchard, “The Economic Future of Europe,” Journal of Economic Perspectives (2004), pp. 3-26.
  • Nicholas Stern et al., "The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change: Executive summary" http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/Executive_Summary.pdf

M Nov 6 Dec 14: Problem set: economic growth across countries

T Dec 8: Review Class

F Dec 11: Due 5 PM: 2500 words. Take one of your short papers for this course--I hope the one you liked most--and expand it and its argument to about 2500 words. This assignment substitutes for the cancelled November 19 midterm in all respects.

F Dec 18: FINAL EXAM 12:30-3:30pm (Group XVII)

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11/12/2009

Econ 115 Amazon Associates Fees Party: December 1, 2 PM

As I said, I have collected $500 this semester in Amazon referral fees for books assigned in this course, and it seems appropriate to give this back.

Therefore Tuesday December 1 at 2 PM, after lecture, we are going to have an Econ 115 reception outside the classroom--either in the Bank of America Forum inside, or outside in the courtyard, depending...

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09/18/2009

Class October 8 Moved to Chevron Auditorium in International House

Associate Haas Dean Jay Stowsky writes:

I’m writing to ask a huge favor. We have invited Mark Hurd, the chairman, CEO, and president of Hewlett-Packard, to give a speech at Haas on October 8 at 12:30, and demand is so great that we would very much like to move the talk into the Anderson Auditorium. Would you be willing to move your undergraduate course to an alternate location on October 8 to help us out? We have reserved the Chevron Auditorium at I House for this purpose. We will of course pay the rental charge. Our events manager, Meg Fellner, will gladly work to help you with any needed adjustments, AV issues, etc.) and any other special needs that might arise. Your help on this would be deeply, deeply appreciated.

Best,

Jay

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09/17/2009

Rao: Mid Term Exam Review

I will be holding a review session for sections 105 and 108 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m tomorrow (18th Sep) at GSPP on Hearst Avenue. I will be in the "Living Room" of the old (quaint looking) building. I cancel my earlier office hours from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sections on Wednesday ARE NOT canceled.

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08/26/2009

Reader Availability

The reader for Economics 115 is not yet available. It will almost certainly be available by Friday at the north side Copy Central. Meanwhile, the Dasgupta reading for the first class is online here: http://delong.typepad.com/slouching/2009/08/partha-dasgupta-economics-a-very-short-introduction-prologue.html .

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08/23/2009

Email: An Unnecessary Note on Workload

Date: Aug 23, 2009 12:08 PM PDT
From: Brad DeLong brad.delong@gmail.com
Subject: An Unnecessary Note on Workload...
Body: This is not necessary, but just to make sure that everybody here is on the same page...

Workload. This is the University of California at Berkeley, the finest public university in the world. You are all upper-middle class or upper class--if you were not in the size of your parents' houses and the expense of the vactions you took growing up, you are now in your expectations and your options--and thus much richer than the average taxpayer of California. Yet, even at today's reduced funding levels, the taxpayers of California are spending $10,000 a year subsidizing your education.

Why are they doing this? Because they believe that if your brains get crammed full of knowledge and skills than many of you will do great things that will redound to the benefit of the state, the country, and the world. Therefore it is my business to cram your brains full of knowledge and skills. It is then your business to go out and try to do great things--and if those great things happen to involve a lot of money, remember the investment that the poorer-than-you taxpayers of California made in your education, and pass some of the resources you will earn on to your successors here at Berkeley.

If I am happy in December with how the course has gone, the median grade will be a low B+. If I am mezza-mezza, the median grade will be a low B. If I am unhappy, the median grade will be a B-. If people don't do the work I assign--or if I were to assign less work--I assure you I will not be happy come December.

Yours,

Brad DeLong

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Email: Welcome to Econ 115, Fall 2009 instantiation!

Welcome to Econ 115, Fall 2009 instantiation!

Brad DeLong

Sections do not meet on Wednesday...

First class is Thursday at 12:30, in Haas F295, We are at the moment staffed for 240, but we have room in the lecture hall for 300...

Before class, I would like all of you to do a few things...

Read:

Buy:

  • an iclicker, from the ASUC store

Buy or otherwise figure out how you are going to access:

  • The Fall 2009 Econ 115 Readers (Copy Central, Northside)
  • Barry Eichengreen, "Globalizing Capital" (2nd edition)
  • Jeffry Frieden, "Global Capitalism"
  • Eric Hobsbawm, "The Age of Extremes"

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Econ 115: Initial Administrivia Handout

The World Economy in the Twentieth Century

Economics 115
Fall 2009
Tues. & Thurs. 12:30-2:00
Haas F295

Economics 115 is an upper division course for undergraduates. Economic concepts, where used, are developed from first principles, although students who have taken Intermediate Macroeconomics and Microeconomics will find the material most accessible. Some knowledge of International Economics is also helpful. Class meets three hours a week, section one hour a week.

Learning Goals for Economics Students. This course will stress the Economics Departmentís first and fourth learning goals (Critical Thinking Skills and Specialized Knowledge and Problem-solving Skills). For details on learning goals see http://emlab.berkeley.edu/econ/ugrad/ugrad_goals.shtml

In Lieu of Handouts. This syllabus, midterms, and the final are the only materials that will be distributed in class. The three (required) books are available at bookstores and on reserve at the library. The reader is available at Copy Central on northside. All other materials will be available on the Economics 115 web page: http://delong.typepad.com/slouching (I have had enough bad experiences with bSpace to want to stay far away from it).

Office Hours. Brad DeLong's office hours for this course are on Thursday 11-12:30, at the Business School cafeteria; [email protected].

Josh Hausman's office hours: Thursday after class Until 4 in Evans 608-3.
Theocharis Grigoriadis office hours : 2-4pm on Mondays in Evans 608-1.

Sections and Graduate Student Instructors. Below is the contact information for the GSIs for this course:

Grigoriadis Theocharis [email protected]
Hausman Joshua [email protected]
Rao Manaswini [email protected]
Sargent Matthew [email protected]

Sections begin on Monday August 31. Consult the online schedule of classes for the most up-to-date information.

Admission. By Economics Department policy, you must attend your first section meeting or your space in this course will be given to another student. The instructor and GSIs do not have the power to admit students (or to readmit you if you are dropped). Students seeking admission should consult the following website for instructions: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/econ/ugrad/enrollmentproc.shtml. Economics Department policies and not your instructor and GSIs determine admissions priorities. At the moment we are staffed for 240 in a room that seats 300, but things inevitably adjust in the first week

Readers and Course Texts. Readers are available from Copy Central on Hearst at Euclid by North Gate. The texts for the course are Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital; Jeffrey Frieden, Global Capitalism, and Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. All are for sale at the ASUC store and your favorite on-line bookseller. The book and reader are also on reserve at Moffitt.

Clickers. The ideal size of a seminar is eight (so that nobody can hide). The ideal size of a lecture is fifty--so that the professor can ask and receive questions and answers, look at faces, and so read the temper of the room and figure out when he or she has lost more than a few stragglers, and go back and come at the material another way. We are going to have between 250 and 300. I also want to put the audio and the powerpoints for the lectures up on the internet. But if I do that than the 15% of the class that really needs to come to class won't--they will think that they will listen to the audio later, and they will be wrong. To try to get some more interactivity going and to provide an incentive to come to class, I am going to experiment with the i>clicker device http://www.iclicker.com/dnn/. So go get one at the ASUC store. The answers you give won't be graded as "right" and "wrong" but rather as "present" and "absent"--and it will be 10% of your grade.

Problem Sets. This is economics. That means that lots of information that comes to us comes in quantitative, countable form. The tools of arithmetic and algebra are very powerful ways of analyzing such information, and we think that you learn a lot more if you use them. Hence we are planning four problem sets, which will also be 10% of your grade. Problem sets will be graded on the following scale: 0--didn't hand it in; 1--tried but did not make a serious effort; 2--made a serious effort; 3--perfect. 10% of your grade.

Short Essays. The Economics Department fails to make its students write enough. This is a bad thing. We are going to push back against this by making you write five short papers over the course of the semester--and by "short" we mean "short": 2-5 pages. Papers will be graded on the following scale: 0--didn't hand it in; 1--tried but missed most of the point; 2--nailed the assignment; 3--taught the teaching staff something. 10% of your grade.

Final Exam. The exam group for this course is 17. This means that the final exam will be administered on Friday, December 18, 12:30-3:30 p.m. If you require special accommodation for exams due to learning or other disability, you should speak with your TA at the beginning of the semester. You will need to provide your TA with documentation from the Disabled Students Program. The final exam will count for 30% of the grade.

Midterms. We have scheduled three midterms. Miss two and fail the course. Take two and take the final. Take all three and then, at your option, skip the final exam and have your average midterm grade imputed to the final. The midterms will count for 30% of the grade.

Sections. Section quizzes and section participation will count for 10% of your grade.

Workload. This is the University of California at Berkeley, the finest public university in the world. You are all upper-middle class or upper class--if not in the size of your parents' houses in your options and expections--and thus much richer than the average taxpayer of California. Yet, even at today's reduced funding levels, the taxpayers of California are spending $10,000 a year subsidizing your education. Why are they doing this? Because they believe that if your brains get crammed full of knowledge and skills than many of you will do great things that will redound to the benefit of the state, the country, and the world. Therefore it is my business to cram your brains full of knowledge and skills. It is then your business to go out and try to do great things--and if those great things happen to involve a lot of money, remember the investment that the poorer-than-you taxpayers of California made in your education, and pass some of the resources you will earn on to your successors here at Berkeley. If I am happy in December with how the course has gone, the median grade will be a low B+. If I am mezza-mezza, the median grade will be a low B. If I am unhappy, the median grade will be a B-. If people don't do the work I assign--or if I were to assign less work--I assure you I will not be happy come December.

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08/17/2009

Reader for Econ 115: Fall 2009

Economics 115: Fall 2009: TTh 12:30-2, F295 Haas

READER:

  • Partha Dusgupta, “Prologue,” Chapter 1 in Partha Dasgupta, Economics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2007, pp. 1-13
  • Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo, “Introduction,” in Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo (eds.), Patterns of European Industrialization During the 19th Century, London: Routledge (1991), pp. 1-26.
  • Jared Diamond (1987), "The Invention of Agriculture: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race," Discover. http://www.scribd.com/doc/2100251/Jared-Diamond-The-Worst-Mistake-in-the-History-of-the-Human-Race
  • John Maynard Keynes (1920). The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Chapter 2. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15776
  • Richard E. Baldwin and Philippe Martin, “Two Waves of Globalisation: Superficial Similarities, Fundamental Differences,” NBER Working Paper no. 6904 (January 1999). http://papers.nber.org/papers/w6904.pdf.
  • Michael Bordo, "Globalization in Historical Perspective," Business Economics (January 2002). http:/people.ucsc.edu/~hutch/Econ143/bordo.pdf
  • W. Arthur Lewis. The Evolution of the International Economic Order, pp. 1-38 (chapters 1-6).
  • W. Arthur Lewis. The Evolution of the International Economic Order, pp. 39-75 (chapters 7-10).
  • Charles Feinstein, Peter Temin and Gianni Toniolo, The European Economy Between the Wars (Oxford 1997), chapters 2, 3 and 5, pp. 18-53 and 84-102.
  • Charles Feinstein, Peter Temin and Gianni Toniolo, The European Economy Between the Wars (Oxford 1997), chapter 6, pp. 103-117.
  • Peter Fearon, “Hoover, Roosevelt and American Economic Policy During the 1930s,” in W.R. Garside, Capitalism in Crisis: International Responses to the Great Depression (Pinter Publishers, 1993), pp. 114-147.
  • Peter Howlett, “The Legacy of the Second World War,” in Max-Stephan Schulze (ed.), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change Since 1945 (Longman, 1999), chapter 1, pp. 5-22.
  • Till Geiger, “Reconstruction and the Beginnings of European Integration,” in Max-Stephan Schulze (ed.), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945 (Longman, 1999), Chapter 3, pp. 23-41.
  • N.F.R Crafts, “The Great Boom, 1950-73,” in Max-Stephan Schulze (ed.), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945, chapter 4, pp. 42-62.
  • Larry Neal and Daniel Barbazat, The Economics of the European Union and the Economies of Europe (Oxford University Press, 1998), chapter 4, pp. 70-87.
  • Richard Ericson, “The Classical Soviet-Type Economy: Nature of the System and Implications for Reform,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 5:4 (Autumn) 1991, pp. 11-27.
  • Dani Rodrik, “Getting Interventions Right: How South Korea and Taiwan Grew Rich,” Economic Policy 20, (1995) pp. 55-107.
  • Edward J. Lincoln, “Japan's Financial Problems,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1998), pp. 347-385. http://ideas.repec.org/a/bin/bpeajo/v29y1998i1998-2p347-385.html
  • Anil Kashyap, “Sorting Out Japan's Financial Crisis,” Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives 2002 (fourth quarter), pp. 42-55.
  • Lant Pritchett, “Divergence, Big Time,” Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 1997), pp.3-17
  • Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning, “Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?” Journal of Economic Perspectives (1999), pp. 3-22.
  • Jeromin Zettelmeyer, “Growth and Reforms in Latin America: A Survey of Facts and Arguments,” IMF Working Paper no. WP/06/210 (September 2006). http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=19436
  • John H. Coatsworth, “Structures, Endowments, and Institutions in the Economic History of Latin America, Latin American Research Review 40 (2005), pp. 126-144.
  • Johannes Linn, “Ten Years of Transition in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Good News and the Not-So-Good News,” in Mario Blejer and Marko Skreb (eds.), Transition: The First Decade (MIT Press, 2002), pp. 15-44
  • Hans-Werner Sinn, “The Withering East,” in Can Germany Be Saved? (MIT Press, 2007), First part of chapter 5, pp .139-161.
  • Gregory C. Chow, “How and Why China Succeeded in Her Economic Reform,” China Economic Review (1993), pp. 117-128. http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/chieco/v4y1993i2p117-128.html
  • Louis Kuijs and Tao Wang, “Chinaís Pattern of Growth: Moving to Sustainability and Reducing Inequality,” World Bank Policy Research Paper no. 3767 (November 2005).
  • J. Bradford DeLong, “India since Independence: An Analytical Growth Narrative,” unpublished manuscript, UC Berkeley. http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Econ_Articles/India/India_Rodrik_DeLong.html
  • Dani Rodrik and Arvind Subraminaian, “From Hindu Growth to Productivity Surge: The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition,” NBER Working Paper no. 10376 (March 2004). http://papers.nber.org/papers/w10376.pdf.
  • Andrew Berg, “The Asian Crisis: Causes, Policy Responses and Outcomes,” IMF Working Paper no. 99/138 (October 1999). http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3295.0
  • Olivier Blanchard, “The Economic Future of Europe,” Journal of Economic Perspectives (2004), pp. 3-26.

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07/30/2009

Lecture Topics and Readings Scratch File: Version 0.9

Economics 115: Fall 2009: TTh 12:30-2, F295 Haas

Th Aug 27: I: Overview (II: Growth; III; Fluctuations; IV: Distribution; V: Politics)

  • Partha Dusgupta, “Prologue,” Chapter 1 in Partha Dasgupta, Economics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2007, pp. 1-13
  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 1-17 ("The Century: A Bird's Eye View")

T Sep 1: VI: Slow Income Growth and the Absolute Poverty of the North Atlantic, 1800-1870

  • Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo, “Introduction,” in Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo (eds.), Patterns of European Industrialization During the 19th Century, London: Routledge (1991), pp. 1-26.

Th Sep 3: VII: No Income Growth and the Dire Absolute Poverty of the Globe, 1800-1870

T Sep 8: VIII: The Invention of Invention: Modern Economic Growth Comes to the North Atlantic, 1870-1914

Th Sep 10: IX: The Iron-Hulled Ocean-Going Steamship: One Economic World, Indivisible, 1870-1914

  • Richard E. Baldwin and Philippe Martin, “Two Waves of Globalisation: Superficial Similarities, Fundamental Differences,” NBER Working Paper no. 6904 (January 1999). http://papers.nber.org/papers/w6904.pdf.
  • Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital (Princeton University Press, 2008), Chapter 2.
  • Michael Bordo, "Globalization in Historical Perspective," Business Economics (January 2002). http:/people.ucsc.edu/~hutch/Econ143/bordo.pdf

T Sep 15: X: Democracy, 1870-1914

  • W. Arthur Lewis. The Evolution of the International Economic Order, pp. 1-38 (chapters 1-6).

Th Sep 17: XI: Empire, 1870-1914

  • W. Arthur Lewis. The Evolution of the International Economic Order, pp. 39-75 (chapters 7-10).

T Sep 22: FIRST EXAM (pre-WWI/police the reading/instructor reality check)

Th Sep 24: XII: The Knot of War: 1914-1920 and After

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 21-35 (Chapter I, part I).
  • Jeffrey Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 127-154 (Chapter 6).

T Sep 29: XIII: Trying to Keep Believing in Progress, 1920-1929

  • Charles Feinstein, Peter Temin and Gianni Toniolo, The European Economy Between the Wars (Oxford 1997), chapters 2, 3 and 5, pp. 18-53 and 84-102.

Th Oct 1: XIV: The Business Cycle and the Great Depression, 1825-1940

  • Charles Feinstein, Peter Temin and Gianni Toniolo, The European Economy Between the Wars (Oxford 1997), chapter 6, pp. 103-117.
  • Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, chapter 3.
  • Peter Fearon, “Hoover, Roosevelt and American Economic Policy During the 1930s,” in W.R. Garside, Capitalism in Crisis: International Responses to the Great Depression (Pinter Publishers, 1993), pp. 114-147.
  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 85-108 (Chapter 3).

T Oct 6: XV: Nazis, Bolsheviks, Fascists, Socialists, and Social Democrats, 1870-1933

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 109-141 (Chapter 4).
  • Jeffrey Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 195-252 (Chapters 9-10).

Th Oct 8: XVI: Dealing with the Imperial West, 1914-1950

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 199-224 (Chapter 7).

T Oct 13: XVII: Total War and Cold Peace, 1933-1955

  • Peter Howlett, “The Legacy of the Second World War,” in Max-Stephan Schulze (ed.), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change Since 1945 (Longman, 1999), chapter 1, pp. 5-22.
  • Till Geiger, “Reconstruction and the Beginnings of European Integration,” in Max-Stephan Schulze (ed.), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945 (Longman, 1999), Chapter 3, pp. 23-41.
  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 36-53 (Chapter 1, parts II-IV).

Th Oct 15: XVIII: Social Democracy in One (North Atlantic) Region, 1920-1975

  • N.F.R Crafts, “The Great Boom, 1950-73,” in Max-Stephan Schulze (ed.), Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945, chapter 4, pp. 42-62.
  • Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, chapter 4, chapter 5, and chapter 6, pp. 219-225 only.
  • Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 257-274 (Chapter 9, parts I-III).
  • Larry Neal and Daniel Barbazat, The Economics of the European Union and the Economies of Europe (Oxford University Press, 1998), chapter 4, pp. 70-87.

T Oct 20: SECOND EXAM (1914-1950)

Th Oct 22: XIX: From Colonialism to Neocolonialism: Import Substitution, State Building, and Divergence, 1940-1980

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 344-352 (Chapter 12, parts I-II).
  • Jeffrey Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 301-320 (Chapter 13).

T Oct 27: XX: Stalin, Mao, and Their Heirs 1926-1990

  • Richard Ericson, “The Classical Soviet-Type Economy: Nature of the System and Implications for Reform,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 5:4 (Autumn) 1991, pp. 11-27.
  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 344-352, 461-471 (Chapter 13, Chapter 16 part I).
  • Jeffrey Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 321-338 (Chapter 14).

Th Oct 29: XXI: Japan and the Stubborn Boundaries of the "First World", 1870-1990

  • Dani Rodrik, “Getting Interventions Right: How South Korea and Taiwan Grew Rich,” Economic Policy 20, (1995) pp. 55-107.
  • Edward J. Lincoln, “Japan's Financial Problems,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1998), pp. 347-385. http://ideas.repec.org/a/bin/bpeajo/v29y1998i1998-2p347-385.html
  • Anil Kashyap, “Sorting Out Japan's Financial Crisis,” Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Economic Perspectives 2002 (fourth quarter), pp. 42-55.

T Nov 3: XXII: 1980: At the Peak of the Great Divergence: One World Unequal and Very Divisible

  • Lant Pritchett, “Divergence, Big Time,” Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 1997), pp.3-17
  • Jeffrey Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 435-453 (Chapter 19).

Th Nov 5: XXIII: Social Democracy Exhausted: 1970-1995

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 403-418 (Chapter 14, parts I-II).

T Nov 10: XXIV: Neocolonialism and Neoliberalism Triumphant, 1980-2000

  • Paul Collier and Jan Willem Gunning, “Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?” Journal of Economic Perspectives (1999), pp. 3-22.
  • Jeromin Zettelmeyer, “Growth and Reforms in Latin America: A Survey of Facts and Arguments,” IMF Working Paper no. WP/06/210 (September 2006). http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=19436
  • John H. Coatsworth, “Structures, Endowments, and Institutions in the Economic History of Latin America, Latin American Research Review 40 (2005), pp. 126-144.

Th Nov 12: XXV: Decommunization, 1975-2010

  • Johannes Linn, “Ten Years of Transition in Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Good News and the Not-So-Good News,” in Mario Blejer and Marko Skreb (eds.), Transition: The First Decade (MIT Press, 2002), pp. 15-44
  • Hans-Werner Sinn, “The Withering East,” in Can Germany Be Saved? (MIT Press, 2007), First part of chapter 5, pp .139-161.
  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 471-499 (Chapter 16, parts II-VI).

T Nov 17: XXVI: China (and India) Stand Up, 1975-2010

Th Nov 19: THIRD EXAM (1950-2010)

T Nov 24: NO CLASS

Th Nov 26: NO CLASS

T Dec 1: XXVII: The Great Global Leap Forward, 1940-2020

  • Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes. New York: Vintage, 1996, pp. 522-557 (Chapter 18).
  • Jeffrey Frieden, Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006, pp. 413-434 (Chapter 18).

Th Dec 3: XXVIII: Things Falling Apart? 2000-2100

  • Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, Chapter 6, pp. 185-210.
  • Andrew Berg, “The Asian Crisis: Causes, Policy Responses and Outcomes,” IMF Working Paper no. 99/138 (October 1999). http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=3295.0
  • Olivier Blanchard, “The Economic Future of Europe,” Journal of Economic Perspectives (2004), pp. 3-26.
  • Stern Report

T Dec 8: Summary and Review

F Dec 18: FINAL EXAM 12:30-3:30pm

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