Reading List for Political Economy of Developing Countries

Reading List for Political Economy of Developing Countries

January, 2016

*Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, “Colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation”, American Economic Review, 91(5), December 2001.

Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson (2012), Why nations fail, Crown, last 4 chapters.

Amsden, Alice (2001), The rise of “the rest”, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

*Amsden, Alice (2007). Escape from empire, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

*Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Duflo, Esther (2011). Poor economics, New York: Public Affairs.

Bardhan, Pranab (1997). “Corruption and development: A review of issues”, Journal of Economic Literature, 35, September 1997, 1320-46.

*Bates, Robert (2008). State failures, Annual Review of Political Science, 11(1), 1-12.

Bates, Robert (2008).When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa, Cambridge University Press.

*Bhagwati, Jagdish (2007). In defense of globalization, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Bird, Graham. "IMF programs: do they work? Can they be made to work better?." World Development 29.11 (2001): 1849-1865.

Boyce, James (2002). Political Economy of the Environment, Elgar.

Chang, Ha-Joon (2002).Kicking Away the Ladder. Development Strategy in Historical Perspective, London: Anthem Press.

*Chang, Ha-Joon (2008)The Bad Samaritans. Bloomsbury Press.

*Dutt, Amitava K. (2014). Pathways to economic development, Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Dutt, Amitava Krishna and Ros, Jaime, eds. (2008).International Handbook of Development Economics, Edward Elgar, especially Volume I, chapters by Bagchi, *Evans, *Durlauf et al, Palma (both), Sutcliffe, Dutt, Auty, Pack, Volume II chapter by *Griffith-Jones, Raffer, Birdsall, *Elson, *Darity and Triplett, *Putterman, *Bardhan, Hocksenberg and Wilber, *Stewart and Brown, Fishlow.

*Easterly,William (2001). The elusive quest for growth, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Easterly, William, ed. (2008).Reinventing Foreign Aid, MIT Press, esp. chaps. Introduction, 1, 3, 5 and 20.

*Escobar, Arturo (2001).Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, especially introduction.

*Evans, Peter B. (1989).‘Predatory, Developmental, and Other Apparatuses: A Comparative Political Economy Perspective on the Third World State.’ Sociological Forum 4, no. 4: 561–87.

*Evans, Peter (1995). Embedded autonomy, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Geddes ,Barbara (2002). “The Great Transformation in the Study of Politics in Developing Countries,” in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds., Political Science: The State of the Discipline, Norton and APSA.

*Gerschenkron, Alexander (1962). Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962), pp. 5-30.

*Haggard, Stephan and Robert Kaufman (2008). Development, democracy and welfare states, Princeton: Princeton University Press., esp. Introduction, chaps., 1, 5, Conclusion.

*Kohli, Atul (2002). State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery, New York: Cambridge University Press,, pp. 1-25, 84-117, 367-426.

*North, Douglass C.(1989). "Institutions and Economic Growth: An Historical Introduction," World Development, Vol. 17, No. 9 (1989), pp. 1319-1332.

North, Douglass C. (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, esp. chaps 1-4.

Ostrom, Elinor (1990).Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action.Cambridge University Pressm especially chapters 1 and 2.

Przeworski, Adam (1991). Democracy and the Market Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

*Przeworski, Adam and Fernando Limongi (1993). “Political Regimes and Economic Growth,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 7, Summer,51–69..

Rodrik, Dani (2008). One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth. Princeton, USA:Princeton University Press.

Rudra, Nita (2008). Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries: Who Really Gets Hurt? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Scott, James (1998). Seeing Like a State, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp.193-222.

*Sen, Amartya (1999). Development as Freedom, New York: Norton.

Stewart, Frances (2000). “The root causes of humanitarian emergencies”, in E. Wayne Nafziger, F. Stewart and R. Vayrynen, eds., War, hunger and displacement. The origins of humanitarian emergencies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

*Stiglitz, Joseph (2002). Globalization and its discontents, New York: W W Norton.

Treisman, Daniel(2007). “What Have We Learned About the Causes of Corruption from Ten Years of Cross-National Empirical Research?” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 10: 211-244

Van De Walle, Nick (2001). African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 64-112.

Vreeland, James Raymond 2002.The IMF and Economic Development, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Waldner, David (1999). State building and late development, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

*Wade, Robert (1990). Governing the Market, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 8-112.

Wibbels, Erik. 2006. “Dependency Revisited: International Markets, Business Cycles, and Social Spending in the Developing World.” International Organization 60 (2): 433-468