CLASS # | TOPICS | READINGS | ASSIGNMENTS |
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1 | Introduction | ||
2 | National Traditions of State and Economy: Britain |
Beer, Samuel. British Politics in the Collectivist Age. Chap. 1-3. Winch, Donald. "Keynes, Keynsianism, and State Intervention." Hall, Peter. Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France. Chap. 2-5. King, Desmond, and Stewart Wood. "The Political Economy of Neoliberalism: Britain and the US in the 1980s." |
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3 | National Traditions of State and Economy: France |
Shonfield, Andrew. Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power. Chap. 5-8. French Documents (Xerox). Rosanvallon, Pierre. "Development of Keynesianism in France." |
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4 | National Traditions of State and Economy: Germany |
Shonfield, Andrew. Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power. Chap. 11 and 12. Herrigel, Gary. Industrial Construction, the Sources of German Industrial Power. Chap. 1-3. Allen, Christopher. "The Underdevelopment of Keynesianism in the FRG." |
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5 | National Traditions of State and Economy: Italy |
Shonfield, Andrew. Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power. Chap. 9. Ginsborg, Paul. A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1998. Chap. 3-9. Locke, Richard. Remaking the Italian Economy. Chap. 1, 2 and 6. |
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6 | Building the Boom: Economic Growth in the Postwar Era |
Shonfield, Andrew. Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power. Chap. 1-4. Boltho, Andrea, ed. The European Economy: Growth and Crisis, Introduction, chap. 1 and 10. Eichengreen, Barry. "Institutions and Economic Growth: Europe after World War II." |
Short Paper Assignment 1 distributed (12-15 pages) |
7 | Building the Boom: The International System and Economic Reconstruction |
Block, Fred L. The Origins of International Economic Disorder: a study of United States international monetary policy from World War II to the present. Chap. 1-5. Milward, Alan S. The European Rescue of the Nation-State. Chap. 1, 2 and 4. |
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8 | From the Golden 1960s to the Crisis of the 1970s: Politics and Economy from the "Trente Glorieuses" to Stagflation |
Haas, Ernst. "Technocracy, Pluralism and the New Europe." Brittan, Samuel. "Inflation and Democracy." |
Short Paper Assignment 1 due |
9 | European Capitalism today: Making Europe |
Weiler, Joseph. The Constitution of Europe: Do the new clothes have an emperor? Chap. 1 and 2. Alter, Karen. Establishing the Supremacy of European Law: the Making of an International Rule of Law in Europe. Chap. 1, 2, 5 and 6. |
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10 | Varieties of Capitalism |
Hall, Peter, and David Soskice. Varieties of Capitalism, Introduction. Berger, Suzanne, and Ronald Dore, eds. National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Introduction. |
Short Paper Assignment 2 distributed (12-15 pages) |
11 | Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State | Levy, Jonah. "Vice into Virtue." Stephens, John, Evelyne Huber, and Leonard Ray. "The Welfare State in Hard Times." Streeck, Wolfgang. "From Market Making to State Building? Reflections on the Political Economy of European Social Policy." |
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12 | Globalization and European Politics | Thelen, Kathleen. "Varieties of Labor Politics in the Developed Democracies." Ancelovici, Marcos. "Organizing against Globalization: The Case of ATTAC in France." Scheve, Kenneth, and Matthew Slaughter. "What Determines Individual Trade Policy Preferences?" |
Short Paper Assignment 2 due |
13 | Research Paper due (15-20 pages) |