Hauptseminar: Economic Development
Winter Term 2010/11
Prof. Dr. Oskar Kurer
Group 1: Tuesdays, 18.15 to 19.45
Group 2: Thursdays, 16.15 to 17.45
Seminar Topic and Basic Literature
Supervisor
1
21.10.
Economic Systems:
Hall, Peter A. and David Soskice. 2001. Varieties of Capitalism.
The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Dees
2
26.10.
28.10.
Economic Systems
Evans, Peter. 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial
Transformation. Academic Books
Kurer
3
02.11.
04.11.
Economic Systems
William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, Carl J. Schramm, William
Baumol. 2007. Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the
Economics of Growth and Prosperity. Yale University
Press
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4
09.11.
11.11.
Global Poverety and Income Distribution
World Bank. 2006. World Development Report 2006. Equity and
Development. Washington D.C.: The World Bank.
Milanovic, Branko. 2005. Worlds Apart: International and Global
Inequality 1950-2000. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press.
Milanovic, Branko. 2009. Global Inequality Recalculated: The
Effect of new 2005 PPP estimates on Global Inequality.
World Bank.
Milanovic, Branko. 2009. Global Inequality and the Global
Inequality Extraction Ratio. World Bank: Policy Research
Paper 5044.
Ravallion, Martin. 2009. A Comparative Perspective on Poverty
Reduction in Brazil, China and India. Policy Research
Paper 5080. World Bank.
Kurer
5
16.11.
18.11.
The Washington Consensus Debate
Williamson, John. 2003. From Reform Agenda do Damaged
Brand Name. Finance and Development, September: 1013.
Williamson, John. 1993. Democracy and the ‘Washington
Consensus. World Development 21(8):1329-36.
Stiglitz, Joseph. E. 2005. The Post Washington Consensus
Consensus. New York: IPD Working Paper Series.
Rodrick, Dani. 2006. Goodbye Washington Consensus, Hello
Washington Confusion? Harvard University. January.
Kurer
6
23.11.
25.11.
Microfinance
Cull, Robert, Alsi Demirgüc-Kunt and Jonathan Murdoch. 2009.
Microfinance Meets the Market. Journal of Economic
Perspectives 23(1)167-92.
Sengupta, Rajdeep and Craig P. Aubuchon. 2008. Microfinance
Revolution: An Overview. Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis Review 90(1):9-30.
Manohar Sharma and Gertrud Buchenrieder. 2002. Impact of
Microfinance on Food Security and Poverty Alleviation: A
Review and Synthesis of Empirical Evidence. In Manfred
Zeller and Richard L. Meyer. The Triangle of
Microfinance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, Ch. 11.
Cull, Robert et. Al. 2007. Financial Performance and Outreach: A
Global Analysis of Leading Microbanks. Economic
Journal 107-133
World Bank. 2007. Finance for All? Policies and Pitfalls in
Expanding Access. World Bank Policy Research Report.
August: Washington: World Bank
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7
30.11.
02.12.
Governance and Corruption
Fuster, Thomas. 1998. Die „Good Governance“ Diskussion der
Jahre 1989 bis 1994. Bern: Verlag Paul Haupt.
World Bank. Governance and Corruption.
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/
Kurer, Oskar. 2005. Corruption. Definition and Measurement.
Political Studies. 53:222-239.
Svensson, Jakob. 2005. Eight Questions about Corruption. Journal
of Economic Perspectives 19(3):19-42.
Kurer
8
07.12.
09.12.
Mancur Olson: The Problem of Collective Action
Olson, Mancur. 1965. Logic of Collective Action. Public Goods
and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press.
Olson, Mancur 1982. The Rise and Decline of Nations. Economic
Growth, Stagflation and Social Rigidities. New Haven:
Yale University Press.
Mancur Olson. 2000. Power and Prosperity. New York: Basic
Books.
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14.12.
16.12.
Entwicklungshilfe
Peter T. Bauer. 1976. Dissent on Development. Chapter on
Foreign Aid (95-135). London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Collier, Paul. 2007. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest
Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Easterly, William. 2005. The White Man’s Burden. New York:
Penguin. Chapter 2.
Raghuram, Rajan and Arvind Subramanian. 2007. Does Aid
Affect Governance? American Economic Review Papers
and Proceedings 97(2 May):322-327.
Dees
Sachs, Jeffrey. 2005. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities
of Our Time. New York: Penguin Press.
10
11.01.
13.01.
Why has Sub-saharan Africa’s growth been so slow?
Ndulu, Benno J, Stephen A. O’Connell, Robert H. Bates and Paul
Collier. 2008. The Political Economy of Economic Growth
in Africa. Volume 1: Cambridge University Press.
Kurer
11
18.01.
20.01.
Country Studies: Botswana and Zimbabwe, a Comparison
Ndulu, Benno J, Stephen A. O’Connell, Robert H. Bates and Paul
Collier. 2008. The Political Economy of Economic Growth
in Africa. Volume 2: Cambridge University Press.
Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. 2003.
An African Success Story: Botswana. In Dani Rodrick
(ed.). In search of Prosperity: Analytic narratives on
economic growth. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Pages 80-119.
Leith, J. Clark. 2006. Why Botswana Prospered. Montreal:
McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Kurer
12
25.01.
27.01.
Country Studies: Chile – A Latin American Success Story
Borsworth, Barry, Raul Laban and Rudiger Dornbusch. 1994. The
Chilean Economy. Brookings
Dees
13
01.02.
03.02.
Country Studies: South Korea
Kurer
14a
08.02.
Diagnostics in Economic Development (only Tuesday)
Rodrick, Dani. 2007. One Economics, Many Recipes:
Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth. Princeton:
Princeton University Press.
Rodrick, Dani. 2008. Second-Best Institutions. American
Economic Review 98(2): 100-104.
Rodrick, Dani. 2009. The New Development Economics: We
Shall Experiment, But How Shall We Learn? In J. Cohen and W.
Easterly: What Works in Development? Thinking Big and
Thinking Small. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Rodrick, Dani. 2010. Diagnostics before Prescription. Journal of
Economic Perspectives 24(3): 33-44
Kurer
14b
10.02.
Klausur (only Thursday)
Only for students of LAG/Magister/Diplom