74638 - Globalization, States and Markets

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Docente: Rosa Mulè
  • Credits: 8
  • SSD: SPS/04
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8783)

Course contents

 

Globalization,  states and markets

 

2014-2015

 

Rosa Mulé

 

This course explores changes in the international economy and their effects on domestic politics and economy. Some of the key issues that will be explored include:

·          Is globalization really a new phenomenon?

·          Is it irreversible?

·          What are the effects on wages and inequality, on social safety nets, on production, and innovation?

·          How does globalization affect democracy?

 

 

 

 

1. Globalization: A New Economic Order? The Historical Antecedents.

Domestic and International Economies in the 19th Century

 

Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2001, chapters 3-6, 12, and 21.

Eichengreen, Barry J. Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and The Great Depression, 1919-1939. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1992, chapters 1-3.

 

 

 

 

2. Globalization before  1915

 

Hirst, Paul, and Grahame Thompson. Globalization in Question. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 1999, chapters 1-2.

Eichengreen, Barry J. et al. Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization 100 years ago? NBER Working Paper No. 7195, 1999.

 

 

3. Spatial and sectoral interpretations

 

Frieden, Jeffery. Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance. International Organization, 45, 1991.

 

Mann.M. Has globalization ended the rise and rise of the nation-state? Review of International Political Economy, 4, 1997.

 

 

 

 

 

4. Creating the global economy:  trade and politics

Gourevitch, Peter. Politics in Hard Times.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986, chapters 1-5.

Pontusson, J. and  D. Raess,  How (and Why) Is This Time Different? The Politics of Economic Crisis in Western Europe and the United States, Annual Review of Political Science,  15, pp. 13-33, 2012.

 

 

 

5. Global Capital Flows

 

Strange, Susan. Casino Capitalism. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 1986, chapters 1, 2, and 6.

 

 

6. Does Globalization Increase Unemployment and Inequality?

 

 

Rodrik, Dani. Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1997.

 

Sala-I-Martin, Xavier, " The Disturbing 'Rise' of Global Income Inequality ." NBER Working Paper No. 8904, April 2002.

 

 

 

7.  Does Globalization Destroy the Power of the State? Are Reforms and Redistribution Still Possible?

 

Berger, S. Globalization and Politics,  In Annual Review of Political Science, 3, 2000.

Swank, D. Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change,  In  Swank, D. (ed.) Developed Welfare States. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002, chapters 1, 7, and 8. 7.

 

Weeks 8 – 10. Globalization, democracy  and varieties of capitalism

 

 Students present papers on one  of the following topics:

a) Globalization and Democracy

b) Does Globalization Destroy the Power of the State? Are Reforms and Redistribution Still Possible?

 

 

Estevez-Abe, M. T. Iversen, D. Soskice,  Social Protection and the Formation of Skills: A Reinterpretation of the Welfare State, in Hall, P. and Soskice, D. (eds.). Varieties of Capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage,  Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 145-183.

 

Hall, P. and Soskice, D. (eds.) Introduction,  Varieties of Capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage.  Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 1-70.

 

Mares, I. Firms and the Welfare State: When, Why and How Does Social Policy Matter to Employers? In Hall, P. and D. Soskice  (eds). Varieties of Capitalism. The institutional foundations of comparative advantage.  Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 184-212.

 

Lijphart, A. Patterns of democracy. Government forms and performance in thirty-six countries. Yale University  Press, New Haven  3° ed. 2012.

 

 

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