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GLST 695: Political Economy of Development: People, Processes, and Policies Report a Broken Link

This course provides a broad overview of the historical evolution of the dynamic and contested concept of development, its theoretical study, and its application in the domestic and international policy spheres.

Unit 1 – Introduction to Development Studies: Theory and Practice

Desai, Radhika. (2009). Theories of development. In Haslam, Paul A. Haslam, Jessica Schafer and Pierre Beaudet (Eds.) Introduction to international development: Approaches, actors, and issues (pp. 45–65). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 
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Jerven, Morten. (2014). Measuring African development: Past and present. Introduction to the Special Issue. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 35(1), 1–8.
Chang, Ha-Joon. (2011). Institutions and economic development: Theory, policy and history. Journal of Institutional Economics 7(4), 473–498.
Jahan, Sarwat, A. S. Mahmud, & Chris Papageorgiou. (2014). What is Keynesian economics? Finance and Development, 51(3).
Mosse, David. (2006). Collective action, common property, and social capital in South India: An anthropological commentary. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 54(3), 695–724.
White, Linda A., & Martha Friendly. (2012). Public funding, private delivery: States, markets, and early childhood education and care in liberal welfare states—Australia, the UK, Quebec, and New Zealand. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 14(4), 292–310.
Rosling, Hans. (2009). Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset.

Unit 2 – A long view of economic history: Putting ‘development’ (and the lack of it) into perspective

Pomeranze, Kenneth, & Stephen Topik. (2015). Introduction and Chapter 1 (The making of market conventions). In The world that trade created: Society, culture, and the world economy 1400 to the present (pp. ix-xiii, 3–48). New York: Routledge.
Pomeranze, Kenneth. (2012). Contemporary development and economic history: How do we know what matters? Economic History of Developing Regions, 27(S1), S136–S148.
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, & James A. Robinson. (2000). The colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation. National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, MA). Working Paper No. 7771, 1–63.
Crutzen, P. J. (2002). Geology of mankind. Nature, 415(6867), 23.
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, & James Robinson. (2005). The rise of Europe: Atlantic trade, institutional change, and economic growth. The American Economic Review, 95(3), 546–579.
Oxfam Briefing Paper. (2023). Survival of the richest. How we must tax the superrich to fight inequality. Oxfam International.

Unit 3 – Development as a Domestic Policy Objective: The Role of the State

Reinert, Erik S. (2012). Neo-classical economics: A trail of economic destruction since the 1970s. Real-World Economics Review, 60 (Open source).
Mkandawire, Thandika. (2010). How the new poverty agenda neglected social and employment policies in Africa. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 11(1), 37–55.
Chang, Ha-Joon. (2002). Breaking the mould: An institutionalist political economy alternative to the neoliberal theory of the market and the state. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26(5), 539–559.
Chatterjee, (2022) The New Developmentalism and its discontents: State Activism in Gujarat and Modi’s India.  Development and Change,  53(1), 58–83.  
Cranby, Stephen. (2012). Planet of slums. Geodate, 25(4), 2–5.
Debowicz, Dario, & Paul Segal. (2014). Structural change in Argentina 1935–1960: The role of import substitution and factor endowments. The Journal of Economic History, 74(1), 230–258.
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). (2011). Divided we stand: Why inequality keeps rising.

Unit 4 – International Development Aid: Then and Now

Doucouliagos, Hristos, & Martin Paldam. (2009). The aid effectiveness literature: The sad results of 40 years of research. Journal of Economic Surveys, 23(3), 433–461.
Alesina, Alberto, & David Dollar. (2000). Who gives foreign aid to whom and why? Journal of Economic Growth, 5(1), 33–63.
Six, Clemens. (2009) The rise of postcolonial states as donors: A challenge to the development paradigm? Third World Quarterly, 30(6), 1103–1121.
Hobbes, Michael. (2014). Stop trying to save the world: Big ideas are destroying international development. New Republic.
Warnecke-Berger, Hannes. (2021). Dynamics of Global Asymmetries. Third World Quarterly, 42(11).
de Haas. (2012). The migration and development pendulum. International Migration, 50(3), 8–25.
Rosling, Hans. (2015). Hans Rosling: How to beat Ebola. BBC Magazine.

Unit 5 – Development and Economic Globalization: The Enforcers and the Resisters

Brodie, Janine, & Alexa DeGagné. (2014). Neo-liberalism. In Janine Brodie, Sandra Rein, and Malinda Smith (Eds.), Critical concepts: An introduction to politics (pp. 60–76). Toronto: Pearson.
Stiglitz, Joseph. (2002). Globalization and the logic of international collective action: Re-examining the Bretton Woods Institutions. In Deepak Nayyar (Ed.), Governing globalization: Issues and institutions (pp. 238–253). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Cornwall, Andrea, & Althea-Maria Rivas. (2015). From ‘gender equality and ‘women’s empowerment’ to global justice: Reclaiming a transformative agenda for gender and development. Third World Quarterly, 36(2), 396–415.
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2021). Forward, State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Rights to Lands, Territories and Resources (pp. vii–xi). Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Slowey, Gabrielle, & Lorna Stefanick. (2015). Development at what cost? First Nations, ecological integrity, and democracy. In Meenal Shrivastava & Lorna Stefanick (Eds.), Alberta oil and the decline of democracy in Canada (pp. 195–224). Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.
BBC. (2022). Real story: The global debt crisis. [podcast]

Unit 6 – Challenges of “Development” in the Twenty-First Century: Inequality, iCapitalism, and Climate Change

Milanovic, Branko. (2016). Global inequality: A new approach for the age of globalisation. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press.

Picketty, Thomas. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. (Arthur Goldhammer, Trans.). Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Gilens, M., & B. Page.(2014). Testing theories of American politics: Elites, interest groups and average citizens. Perspectives on Politics, 12(3), 564–581.
Mitchell, K., & M. Sparke. (2016). The new Washington consensus: Millennial philanthropy and the making of global market subjects. Antipode, 48(3), 724–726.
Domosh, Mona. (2015). Practising development at home: Race, gender, and the ‘development’ of the American South. Antipode, 47(4), 915–941.
Roser, Max. (2016). World poverty. Our World in Data.
Jacobs, M. (2023). Reflections on COP26: International diplomacy, global justice and the greening of capitalism. The Political Quarterly, 93(2), 270–277
Patel, Raj. (2015). The secret ingredient for ending world hunger. TED Conferences.
La Via Campesina (2021). Movement in Formation.