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Political Economy of Institutions Essay

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Khan on Property rights and coast see section 3

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Week 1 Introduction: Institutions and Organizations: Transaction costs and Property rights

PEI 2021 Lecture 1 Institutions Organizations and Transaction Costs

Kar et al (2017): Do economic institutions matter for growth episodes? ESID Working paper 92

Khan, M (2007): Governance, Economic Growth and Development since the 1960s. DESA Working Paper No. 54 ST/ESA/2007/DWP/54 August 2007

Marinescu (2014): Why Institutions Matter: From Economic Development to Development Economics. European Review, Vol. 22, No. 3, 469-490

Acemoglu, D and J. Robinson (2008) The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development. Commission on Growth and Development, Working Paper 10.

Alchian Demsetz (1972)

Williamson 2000

Acemoglu et al 2004

North 1991

Week 2: From colonialism to capitalist transitions – an institutional view on history and socio-economic changes

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Seminar presentation: British colonial legacies for economic development The British West Africa Lands Policy and The East India Tea Company

Khan, M.H. 2005 The Capitalist Transformation, in Jomo KS and Reinert E. eds. The Origins of Development Economics: How Schools of Thought have Addressed Development.

Hodgson, G. (2002) The evolution of institutions: an agenda for future theoretical research. Constitutional Political Economy 13.2, 111–27.

Khan, Mushtaq 2012. Governance and Growth: History, Ideology and Methods of Proof

Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson 2001. The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation, American Economic Review 91 (5): 1369-401.

Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J. 2012. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. chapters 3-6 Connect to electronic book via Ebook Central

Jack Knight: Institutions and Social Conflict, CHAPTERS 2 and 4. Chapter 5 optional Connect to electronic book via Cambridge Core.

Palermo, Giulio. 2007. Misconceptions of power: From Alchian and Demsetz to Bowles and Gintis, Capital and Class 31 (2): 147-85.

Week 3: Power, Political Settlements, and Good Governance

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Palermo, Giulio. 2007. Misconceptions of power: From Alchian and Demsetz to Bowles and Gintis, Capital and Class 31 (2): 147-85.

Rodrik, D. (2004) Getting institutions right. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Khan, M. 2012. Beyond Good Governance: An Agenda for Developmental Governance, in Jomo K.S and Chowdhury A. (eds). Is Good Governance Good for Development?

Khan, M. H. (2018). Political Settlements and the Analysis of Institutions, African Affairs Volume 117 Issue 469

[Sections 2, 3, 6 and 7. ] Khan, Mushtaq H. 2010. Political Settlements and the Governance of Growth-Enhancing Institutions

Putzel and Di John (2009) Political Settlements

Week 4: Corruption and Anti-Corruption Strategies

Institutions Lecture 2021 Corruption

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Khan, Mushtaq H. 2006. Determinants of Corruption in Developing Countries: the Limits of Conventional Economic Analysis, in Rose-Ackerman, Susan (ed.) International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Khan, Andreoni and Roy 2019. Anti-corruption in adverse contexts: strategies for improving implementation. ACE Working Paper 013

Treisman, D. 2000. The Causes of Corruption: A Cross National Study, Journal of Public Economics 76: 399-457. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/treisman/pages/causes.PDF

Shleifer, A. and Vishny, R. W. 1993. Corruption, Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (3): 599-617. Reprinted in Shleifer and Vishny, The Grabbing Hand Ch. 5.

Hiding in Plain Sight Democracy’s indigenous origins in the Americas. By David Graeber and David Wengrow

Week 5: The role of the state: rents, technology and learning

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Fuchs (2018) Universal Alienation, Formal and Real Subsumption of Society under Capital, Ongoing Primitive Accumulation by Dispossession. tripleC 16(2): 454-467, 2018

Mazzucato and Semieniuk (2019): Public financing of innovation: new Questions. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 33, Number 1, 2017, pp. 24–48

Khan, M.H. 2013 Technology Policies and Learning with Imperfect Governance in Stiglitz, Joseph and Lin, Justin Yifu, (eds.), The Industrial Policy Revolution I. The Role of Government Beyond Ideology. London: Palgrave.

Hickey (2013) Thinking about the politics of inclusive development: towards a relational approach. ESID Working Paper 1

Rents Efficiency and Growth

Week 6: The Governance of Transnational Capitalism: from IFIs to the TCC

PEI Lecture 6 updated

Hickey (2013) Thinking about the politics of inclusive development: towards a relational approach.

Debate on the New Global Capitalism Transnational Capitalist Class Transnational State Apparatuses and Global Crisis

Never let a pandemic go to waste turbocharging the private sector for development at the World Bank

Smith (2018) David Harvey Denies Imperialism

Harvey (2018) Realities on the Ground: David Harvey replies to John Smith

Kar et al. (2019): Doing business in a deals world: The doubly false premise of rules reform. ESID Working paper 123

Smith (2018) Imperialist Realities vs. the Myths of David Harvey

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Rowden (2019) From the Washington Consensus to the Wall Street Consensus

Suwandi et al (2019) Global Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism

FT (2021) Why economists kept getting the policies wrong

Week 7: Institutions, sectoral growth and development: Africa, Asia and Latin America in comparative perspective