This page contains all of the following resources for each class meeting:
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Content materials contains suggested readings, more details about assignments, math appendices, and other helpful resources. I suggest you view these before each class.
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Slides directly link to the “Xaringan” presentations in html that can be opened in any browser (You can find a downloadable PDF in each respective content page)
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Assignments are listed with due dates
Please note that the lesson numbers, topics, and titles (e.g. 1.1) are my design, and do not match up with the textbook!
Relevant materials, if applicable will be posted before class meets and become colored links.
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| 1.1 — The Big Questions |
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| 1.2 — Measuring Development |
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| 1.3 — Why Development Matters |
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| 1.4 — Can We Plan an Economy? |
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| 1.5 — The Socialist Calculation Debate |
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| 2.1 — The Microeconomics of Development I: Division of Labor |
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| 2.2 — The Microeconomics of Development II: Markets & Prices |
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| 2.3 — The Macroeconomics of Development I: Classical Growth Theory |
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| 2.4 — The Macroeconomics of Development II: Exogenous Growth Theory |
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| 2.5 — The Macroeconomics of Development III: Endogenous Growth Theory |
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| 3.1 — Foreign Aid I: Growth Regressions, Program Evaluation & Aid Theory |
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| 3.2 — Foreign Aid II: How Effective Is/Was Aid? |
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| 3.3 — Geography I: the Diamond Hypothesis |
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| 3.4 — Geography II: The Curse of Resources & the Reversal of Fortune |
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| Short Paper 1 due Thurs Oct 28 |
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| 4.1 — Introduction to Political Economy |
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| 4.2 — The Pre-modern Malthusian Economy |
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| 4.3 — Limited Access Orders & The Natural State |
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| 4.4 — Selectorate Model & The Violence Trap |
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| 5.1 — Feudalism |
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| 5.2 — Escaping Feudalism, and Mercantilism |
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| 5.3 — Origins of Liberal Democracy in Western Europe |
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| Short Paper 2 due Mon Dec 6 |
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| Country Profile due Dec 2 |
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| Final Exam due Tues Dec 14 |
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