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Political Economy of Institutions Essay

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

PEI 2023 Lecture 1 Institutions Organizations and Transaction Costs

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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: History matters: institutions from colonialism to capitalist transitions

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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.

PODCAST: How did the British Empire write the rules of today’s economy?

Week 3: The role of the state: industrial policy, technology and learning

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PEI 2023 Lecture 3

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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

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

Rents Efficiency and Growth

Mazzucato 2018

Week 4: Power, Political Settlements, and Good Governance -

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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?

DESA Governance Economic Growth and Development since 1960s

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

Putzel and Di John (2009) Political Settlements

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

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

Khan, M. H. 2018. Institutions and Asia's Development: The Role of Norms and Organizational Power. WIDER Working Paper. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.

Week 5: Corruption and Anti-Corruption Strategies

PEI 2023 Lecture 5 Slides Anti Corruption

PEI 2023 Lecture 5 Anti Corruption Class Lecture

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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.

PODCAST: Is the US Really Less Corrupt than China?