Development

Syllabus

Introduction and Overview, Or Why Economic Development is the Heart of Economics (Due: 5/20/14)

• • Understanding Poverty, Ch. 1

  • Why Nations Fail, Preface & Ch. 1

• Banerjee & Duflo - The Economic Lives of the Poor

• Deaton - Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

The Miracle of Growth and the Puzzle of Divergence

Why Fences Matter: Markets and Property Rights (Due: 5/27/14)

• Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society, American Economic Review, 1945

• Hornbeck, Barbed Wire: Property Rights and Agricultural Development, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010

• Creative Destruction, Econlib, http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/CreativeDestruction.html

Sins of the (Great-Great-Great-Grand)Fathers: Geography, History, or None of the Above (Due: 5/29/14)

• • WNF, Ch. 3

  • UP, Ch. 2,3

• Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson, The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development, American Economic Review, 2001

The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades: The Role of Technological Progress (Due: 6/3/14)

• • UP, Ch. 5

Everything Bad Is Good: International Trade, Globalization, Sweatshops, and Child Labor (Due: 6/5/14)

• • UP, Ch. 6,7,16,17

• Bastiat - Candlemaker's Petition

• Sweatshops - Econlib

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Human Capital, Health, and Education (Due: 6/9/14)

• • UP, Ch. 15,18,20,21

• Kremer, Randomized Evaluations of Educational Programs in Developing Countries, American Economic Review, 2003

• Canning, The Economics of HIV/AIDS in Low-Income Countries, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006

It's the Jobs, Stupid: Labor Markets, Migration, and Occupational Choice (Due: 6/10/14)

• Clemens and McKenzie, Think Again: Brain Drain, Foreign Policy, 2009

• Gibson and McKenzie, Eight Questions About Brain Drain, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011

Who Owns the Land?: Inequality, Land Ownership, and Reform (Due: 6/11/14)

• • UP Ch. 4,8

Household is Where the Heart Is: Fertility, Family, and Gender (Due: 6/12/14)

• • UP, Ch. 9,10

• Sen, More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing, New York Review of Books, 1990

• Bureaucracy: Fighting for Identity, The Economist, 5/17/2014

Saving is Not as Easy As You Think: Credit, Investment, Saving, and Insurance (Due: 6/17/14)

• • UP, Ch. 22,23

Don't Hate the Game, Hate the Institution: Political Institutions and Development (Due: 6/18/14)

• • WNF, Rest of Book* (see e-mail)

Not All Democracies Are Created Equally: Culture, Corruption and the Political Economy of Development (Due: 6/19/14)

• • UP, Ch. 11,19

Class 16 (6/24/14): White Man's Burden: What, if Anything, Can the West Do?