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PED Lecture Schedule 2023/24

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Course overview

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Using SOAS Library for Development Studies - The Essentials

SOAS Library Resources for Development Studies PG

Past PED essays

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Rolling Glossary

Academic reading and writing in Development Studies

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Learning Opportunities in Development Studies at SOAS

Module overview

lecture schedule

Assessment

Assignment 1 (AS1) – 2023/24

Assignment 2 (AS2) – 2023/24

DEV-15PDSC002-A23/24-Political Economy of Development-May24/25

DEV-August 25-15PDSC002-A23/24-Political Economy of Development

Lecture 1:What is Political Economy of Development? Overview

CORE READING: Harriss, J. (2002) ‘The Case for Cross-Disciplinarity Approaches in International Development’, World Development 30 (3), pp.487-496.

CORE READING :Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J. (2013) Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy AdvicJournal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 27, no. 2: 173-192.

CORE READING: Frieden (2020)

CORE READING: Milonakis, Dimitris and Ben Fine (2009). “Introduction”, From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory, London: Routledge. (pgs. 1-10)

CORE READING: Nunn (2020) historical root of economic development

recommended reading: Chang --different approaches to economics

recommended reading: Haug, et al, (2021). The ‘Global South ’in the study of world politics

Recommended reading: Solomon, M. Scott (2010). “Critical Ideas in Times of Crisis: Reconsidering Smith, Marx, Keynes, and Hayek”, Globalizations, 7, 1–2: 127–35.

Recommended and Further readings

SOAS Library Resources for Development Studies PG

Lecture slides

Lecture 2: Measuring Development

CORE READING Clark (2005) reading

CORE READING- Ravallion (2010) Mashup Indicators of Development, World Bank Research Paper 5432

Core reading— Ravallion (1997) Good and Bad Growth

Core reading--Lutz and Kebede (2018) health and education--redrawing the Preston Curve

Highly recommended reading--Birdsall et al (2015) The Median is the Measure

highly recommend reading— McGillivray (1991)

L. Pritchett and L. Summers (1996) ‘Wealthier is Healthier’, Journal of Human Resources 31 (4), pp.841-866

Non-Core/recommended reading; Andrew et al (2010)

A note on the shortcomings of Sen's idea of 'development as freedom'

recommended and further readings

lecture slides

Lecture 3--Key ideas in development economics- Neoclassical economics/neoliberalism

core reading-Arnsperger and Varoufakis (2006)

Economic history poster

NCE slides October 2023

NCE lecture recording October 2023

Lecture 4--Key ideas in development economics--Marxism

Sender and Pincus reading

Harvey New Imperialism

Lebowitz

Whyte

lecture slides

Lecture recording

Lecture 5-Key ideas in development economics: new institutionalism, post-Washington Consensus

Bates, R. (1995). Social Dilemmas and Rational Individuals: An assessment of the new institutionalism, in in Harriss J., Hunter, J. and Lewis, C. eds. New Institutional Economics and Third World Development. London: Routledge.

Khan, M. (2007) Governance, Economic Growth and Development since the 1960s

Core reading --Ang (2015)

Rodrik (2004) Rethinking Growth Strategies

A note on the differences between NIE and Political Economy

FT World Bank suspends its business climate index over data ‘irregularities’

North, D. (1981). Structure and Change in Economic History. New York: Norton. Pages: 20-32; 211-220.

Khan (2012) added further reading

North et al (2007) limited access orders (highly recommended reading)

Rodrik (2008) Second Best Institutions (added further reading)

Glaeser et al (1994) Do institutions cause growth? further reading added

Putzel 1997 Dark Side of Social capital (further recommended reading)

Recommended and further readings

lecture slides

Supplementary Lecture notes

additional lecture recording (covering last few slides of the lecture

Lecture 6 -Key ideas in development economics- Structural Transformation