M.St. in International Relations 2011/12 - 2012/13
International Political Economy
(latest update: December 2011)
Welcome to the home page for this module. I shall continue to update both the page itself, and some of the documents accessible from it, until the end of December: please refresh this page whenever accessing it, so that any changes made since your last visit become visible to you. As well as providing links to readings for individual lectures, the home page provides access to the following reference documents:
A Note on Essay-Writing in International Political Economy
Lecture Presentations; Finance and Development
Note: I shall edit both notes and presentations, at times substantially, in the aftermath of our meetings during the December residential period; while this work is in progress, I shall upload only individual sections of the Presentations and Notes. Successive versions of these files will include the date in the filename (in yymmdd format): once you have downloaded the latest version, any earlier ones should be discarded.
Lecture 1-2: Markets and National Borders: an Introduction to International Economics
Di Tella, Rafael and Robert Macculloch (2009) "Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Spring), pp. 285-321.
Mankiw, N. Gregory (2006) "The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer" The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Fall), pp. 29-46.
Olson, Mancur (1996) "Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations are Rich, and Others Poor" The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring), pp. 3-24.
Person, Torsten and Guido Tabellini (2004) "Constitutions and Economic Policy" The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 75-98.
Simmons, Beth A., Frank Dobbin and Geoffrey Garrett (2006) "Introduction: The International Diffusion of Liberalism" International Organization, Vol. 60, No. 4 (Autumn), pp. 781-810.
Simon, Herbert A. (1991) "Organizations and Markets" The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring), pp. 25-44.
Stiglitz, Joseph (1998) "The Private Uses of Public Interests: Incentives and Institutions" The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Spring), pp. 3-22
Lectures 3-4: The Nation as an Economic Unit
Edwards, Sebastian (2004) "Thirty Years of Current Account Imbalances, Current Account Reversals, and Sudden Stops" IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 51 (IMF Fourth Annual Research Conference), pp. 1-49..
Feldstein, Martin S. (1988) "Thinking About International Economic Coordination", The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring), pp. 3-13 .
Summers, Lawrence H. (1999) "Reflections on Managing Global Integration" The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Spring), pp. 3-18.
Lecture 5-6: International Trade and Investment
Goldstein, Judith L., Douglas Rivers and Michael Tomz (2007) "Institutions in International Relations: Understanding the Effects of the GATT and the WTO on World Trade" International Organization, Vol. 61, No. 1 (Winter), pp. 37-67.
Krugman, Paul (1993a). "What Do Undergrads Need to Know About Trade?" American Economic Review Vol. 83 no. 2 (Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred and Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, May), pp. 23-26.
Prasad, Eswar S. , Raghuram G. Rajan, and Arvind Subramanian (2007) "Foreign Capital and Economic Growth" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, no. 1, pp. 153-209.
Taylor, Alan M. and Mark P. Taylor (2004) "The Purchasing Power Parity Debate" The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 18, No. 4 (Autumn), pp. 135-158.
Williamson, Jeffrey G. (1998). "Globalization, Labor Markets and Policy Backlash in the Past." Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 12 no. 4 (Fall), pp. 51-71.
Lecture 7-8: The International Financial Architecture
Aliber, Robert Z. (2005) "The 35 Most Tumultuous Years in Monetary History: Shocks, the Transfer Problem, and Financial Trauma" IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 52 (IMF Conference in Honor of Michael Mussa), pp. 142-159.
Brune, Nancy, Geoffrey Garrett and Bruce Kogut (2004) "The International Monetary Fund and the Global Spread of Privatization" IMF Staff Papers, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 195-219.
Chang, Ha-Joon and Ilene Grabel (2004) "Reclaiming Development from the Washington Consensus" Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Winter), pp. 273-291.
Cooper, Richard N. (2008) "Global Imbalances: Globalization, Demography, and Sustainability" The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Summer), pp. 93-112.
Easterly, William and Tobias Pfutze (2008) "Where Does the Money Go? Best and Worst Practices in Foreign Aid" The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Spring), pp. 29-52.
Fischer, Stanley (2001) "Exchange Rate Regimes: Is the Bipolar View Correct?" The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Spring), pp. 3-24.
Prasad, Eswar S. and Raghuram G. Rajan (2008) "A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization" The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Summer), pp. 149-172.
Williamson, John (1993) "Exchange Rate Management (in Policy Forum: Exchange Rate Management and Policy Cooperation)." Economic Journal Vol. 103 no. 416 (January), pp. 188-197.
Williamson, John (2004) "The Strange History of the Washington Consensus" Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Winter), pp. 195-206.
Seminar 1: Crisis and Reform in the International Financial Architecture (TBC)
Seminar 2: Development after the Washington Consensus (TBC)