Economics 4338/5338
Supplementary Readings
Fall 2010
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Introduction
1. Douglass C. North. Institutions. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 5, No. 1. (Winter, 1991), pp. 97-112.
2. David G. Blanchflower, International Evidence on Well-Being. NBER Working Paper No w14318, 2008.
- Capitalism
- Socialism
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3. Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian,
Multilateralism Beyond Doha, Peterson Institute for
International Economics Working Paper 08-8, October 2008.
4. N. Gregory Mankiw and Phillip Swagel. The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing. Journal of Monetary Economics. Vol. 53 (2006), pp. 1027–1056.
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5. Andrei Shleifer,
State
versus Private Ownership. The Journal
of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 12, No. 4. (Autumn, 1998), pp.
133-150.
- Economic Development
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6. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson,
James A. Robinson, The
Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation.
NBER Working Paper No. w7771, June 2000.
7. Antoni Estevadeordal and Alan M.
Taylor,
Is the Washington Consensus Dead? NBER Working Paper No.
w14264, 2008.
8. Kathleen Beegle, Rajeev Dehejia, and Roberta Gatti. Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor. NBER Working Paper No. 10980, December 2004.
9. Richard N. Cooper. A Half-Century of Development. Harvard Center for International Development Working Paper No. 118, 2005.
10. Thomas Sikor and Daniel Muller. The Limits of State-Led Land Reform: An Introduction. World Development. Vol. 37, No. 8 (2009).
- Western Hemisphere
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United States
14. Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? A Historical and International Perspective. NBER Working Paper No. 12404, July 2006
15. Michael D. Bordo, An Historical Perspective on the Crisis of 2007-2008. NBER Working Paper No. 14569, December 2008.
16. Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett, The Early 21st Century U.S. Productivity Expansion is Still in Services. International Productivity Monitor, Spring 2007, pp. 3-19.
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Western Europe
20. Alberto Alesina, Rafael Di Tella, and Robert MacCulloch, Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different? NBER Working Paper No. w8198, 2001.
21. Philip R. Lane. The Real Effects of European Monetary Union. Journal of Economic Perspectives. Volume 20, Number 4 (Fall 2006), pp. 47–66.
22. Brigid Laffan, The Future of Europe Debate, The Institute of European Affairs, 2002.
23. Peter Brennan, Enlargement: An Economic Assessment, The Institute of
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Great Britain
24. Richard Green and Jonathan Haskel, Seeking a Premier League Economy: the Role of Privatisation. CEP/IFS/NBER conference, Seeking a Premier League Economy, London, 2000.
25. John Pencavel, The Surprising Retreat of Union Britain. Stanford
26. John Van Reenen, No More Skivvy Schemes? Active Labour Market Policies and the British New Deal for the Young Unemployed in Context.
- Germany
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France
31. Jonah D. Levy, The State After Statism: French Economic and Social Policy in the Age of Globalization. Thirteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, 2002.
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Sweden
32. Geoffrey E. Schneider, Sweden's Economic Recovery and the Theory of Comparative Institutional Advantage. Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLI, No. 2, June 2007.
33. Martin Lundin and Per Skedinger. Decentralisation of Active Labour Market Policy: The Case of Swedish Local Employment Service Committees. Journal of Public Economics. Vol. 90 (2006), pp. 775–798.
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34. Tony Huzzard and Peter Docherty. Between Global and Local: Eight European Works Councils in Retrospect and Prospect. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2005.
35. F. Mikael Sandström and Fredrik Bergström, School Vouchers in Practice: Competition Won't Hurt You! Research
36. David Rae. Getting Better Value for Money from Sweden’s Healthcare System. OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 443, 2005.
Central Eurasia
37. Saul Estrin, Jan Hanousek, Evžen Kocenda, and Jan Svejnar. Effects of Privatization and Ownership in Transition Economies. World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper 4811 (January 2009).
38. Sergio Godoy and Joseph E. Stiglitz. Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries: 11 Years Later. NBER Working Paper No. 11992, January 2006.
39. Rudiger Ahrend and William Tompson. Fifteen Years of Economic Reform in Russia. OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 430, 2005.
40. Swati Basu, Saul Estrin and Jan Svejnar. Wage Determination Under Communism and In Transition: Evidence from Central Europe. William Davidson Institute WP No. 717, 2004.
- Asia
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Japan
45. Randall Morck and Masao Nakamura, Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth. NBER Working Paper No. 13171, June 2007.
46. Hiroshi Ono and Marcus E Rebick, Constraints On The Level and Efficient Use of Labor in Japan. NBER-CEPR-EIJS conference, 2002.
47. Hyeong-ki Kwon. Japanese Employment Relations in Transition. Economic and Industrial Democracy, August 2004.
48. Anil Kashyap, Sorting Out Japan's Financial Crisis. NBER Working Paper 9384, 2002.
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China
11. Mary Jane Bolle, NAFTA
Labor Side Agreement: Lessons for the Worker Rights and Fast-Track
Debate. Congressional Research
Service, 2002.
12.
Gordon H. Hanson. What
Has Happened to Wages in
13.
Gary C. Hufbauer and Jeffrey J. Schott. The
Prospects for Deeper North American Economic Integration: A U.S.
Perspective. C.D. Howe Institute Commentary: The Border
Papers, January 2004.
17. Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Growth and Reforms in Latin America: A Survey of Facts and Arguments. IMF WP/06/210, September 2006.
18. Paulo Nakatani and Rémy Herrera, Structural Changes and Planning of the Economy in Revolutionary Venezuela. Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 40, No. 3, Summer 2008.
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19. Norman
Hicks and Quentin Wodon, Social
Protection for the Poor in Latin
America,
CEPAL Review 73, pp. 93-113, April 2001.
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27. Gary Gorton, Frank Schmid, Class
Struggle Inside the Firm: A Study of German Codetermination. NBER Working Paper No. w7945, 2000.
28. Christian Merkl and Dennis Snower, East German Unemployment: The Myth of the Irrelevant Labor Market. Kiel Working Papers No. 1435, 2008.
29. Michael Whittall. Modell Deutschland under Pressure: The Growing Tensions between Works Councils and Trade Unions. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2005.
41.
Rolf J. Langhammer.
The Asian Way of Regional Integration: Are There Lessons from Europe?
Kiel Economic Policy Papers, No. 7 (January 2007).
42. David Clingingsmith and Jeffrey G. Williamson. India’s De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence. Harvard Institute of Economic Research, Discussion Paper No. 2039, June 2004.
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44.
Kwame S. Jomo,
Lessons From The East Asian Crisis of 1997-98. World Bank
Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, Oslo,
2002.
50.
Yang Yao and Ninghua Zhong, Unions
Improve Chinese Workers' Welfare; Results from 1,268 Firms.
China Center for
Economic Research, Working Paper 2010-04, April 2010.
51.
Wei Li and Dennis Tao Yang.
The Great Leap Forward: Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster.
Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 113 (2005), pp. 840-877.
52. Bai, Chong-En, Lu, Jiangyong and Tao, Zhigang, How Does Privatization Work in China? Munich Personal RePEc Archive no. 6599, August 2007.
53. Lee Branstetter and Nicholas Lardy. China’s Embrace of Globalization. NBER Working Paper 12373, July 2006.
54. Shuming Bao, Örn B.
Bodvarsson, Jack W. Hou, and Yaohui Zhao, The
Regulation of Migration in a Transition
Economy: China’s Hukou System. IZA Discussion Paper No.
4493, October 2009.
- Africa
55. Margaret Maurer-Fazio, James W. Hughes, and Dandan Zhang. Economic Reform and Changing Patterns of Labor Force Participation in Urban and Rural China. William Davidson Institute WP No. 787, 2005.
56. Ying Fang and Yang Zhao. Do institutions matter? Estimating the effect of institutions on economic performance in China. BOFIT Discussion Papers No. 9, 2009.
57. Wendy Dobson and Anil Kashyap,
The Contradiction in China’s Gradualist Banking Reforms.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2:2006.
58. Miguel
Nino-Zarazua,
Armando Barrientos, David Hulme, and Sam Hickey, Social protection in
sub-Saharan Africa: Will the green shoots blossom? MPRA Paper No.
22422, April 2010.
59. Daniel Ayalew
Ali, Stefan Dercon, and Madhur Gautam,
Property Rights in a Very Poor Country: Tenure Insecurity and
Investment in Ethiopia. World Bank Policy Research Working
Paper 4363, September 2007 60. Nathan Nunn and
Diego Puga.
Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa. NBER
Working Paper 14918, April 2009. 61. David E. Sahn and David C. Stifel, Progress
Toward the Millennium Development Goals in Africa. World Development Vol. 31, No. 1, pp.
23–52, 2003 62.
Robert
H. Bates, Avner Greif, Macartan Humphreys, and Smita Singh. Institutions
and Development. CID Working Paper No. 107, September 2004. 63. Robert H. Bates. Political
Reform. Harvard Center for International Development Working Paper No.
114, 2005.
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