Max Weber

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Routledge, 1992 [1930]), Chapters 2 and 5.

Ha Joon Chang, "Lazy Japanese and Thieving Germans," in Bad Samaritans, The myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (London and New York: Boomsbury Press, 2007): 182-202.

Randall Collins, "Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism: A Systematization," American Sociological Review, Vol. 45, No. 6 (Dec., 1980): 925-942.

Optional:

Max Weber, General Economic History (Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1950).

WEEK 2

Late Industrialization and Modernization Theory

Gerschenkron, Alexander. “Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective.” In Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective: A Book of Essays. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1962: 5-30.

Rostow, W. W. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Chapter 2, “The Five Stages-of-Growth— A Summary” 4-16, and Chapter 3, “The Preconditions for Take-Off,” 17-35.

Topic of Week 3, reading 1: Guerra, Ramiro. Sugar and Society in the Caribbean: An Economic History of Cuban Agriculture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964 [1927].

WEEK 3

Dependency and World Systems Theories

Brewer, Anthony,"Frank, Wallersetein, and the 'Dependency Theorists'," in Marxist Theories of Imperialism: a Critical Survey (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980): 158-181.

Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, Historical Capitalism. London: Verso, 2003 [1983].

Alternatively, read Wallerstein, Immanuel, "The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis," Comparative Studies in Society and History , Vol. 16, No. 4 (Sep., 1974), pp. 387-415

Frank, André Gunder. “Development and Underdevelopment in the New World: Smith and Marx vs. the Weberians.” Theory and Society 2, no. 4 (Winter 1975): 431-466.

Frank, André Gunder . "The Development of Underdevelopment." Monthly Review Vol. 18, No. 4 (September 1966): 17-31. [https://monthlyreviewarchives.org/index.php/mr/article/view/MR-018-04-1966-08_3/1604]

 

WEEK 4

Marxist theories

Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origins of Capitalism: a Longer View (London and New York: Verso): 73-146 .

Robert Brenner, “The Social Basis of Economic Development,”   in John E. Roemer,   Analytical Marxism   (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1986):  23-56.

Ernest Mandel, "The Structure of the Capitalist World Market," Chapter 2 of Late Capitalism (London: Verso, 1978): 44-74

WEEK 5

Developmental State Theory

Haggard, Stephen. Developmental States. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Johnson, Chalmers. “Political Institutions and Economic Performance: The Government-Business Relationship in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.” In The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism, edited by Frederic Deyo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

WEEK 6

Latin America / East Asia Comparisons

Kay, Cristóbal. “Why East Asia Overtook Latin America: Agrarian Reform, Industrialisation and Development.” Third World Quarterly 23, no. 6 (December 2002): 1073–1102.

Kohli, Atul. “Nationalist Versus Dependent Capitalist Development: Alternate Pathways of Asia and Latin America in a Globalized World.” Studies in Comparative International Development 44 (2009): 386-410.

Studwell, Joe. How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region. New York: Grove Press, 2013. Part 1: “Land: The Triumph of Gardening,” 1-70. (On Northeast Asia vs. Southeast Asia, but echoes Kay on Latin America vs. East Asia).

Woo-Cumings, Meredith. “The Role of Government in East Asian Economic Development: Comparative Institutional Analysis.” In The Role of Government in East Asian Economic Development, edited by Masahiko Aoki, Hyung-Ki Kim, and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara, 324–40. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

WEEK 7

Korea: The “Asian Tiger”

Land Tenure and Colonialism

Kohli, Atul. “Where do High Growth Political Economies Come From? The Japanese Lineage of Korea's ‘Developmental State.'” World Development 22, no. 9 (September 1994): 1269-1293.

Shin, Gi-Wook. Peasant Protest and Social Change in Colonial Korea. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1996. Chapters 3, 9 and Conclusion. | Notes and Bibliography

The “Miracle”

Chang, Ha-Joon. “The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in Korea.” Cambridge Journal of Economics 17, no. 2 (June 1993): 131–57.

Chibber, Vivek. “Building a Developmental State: The Korean Case Reconsidered.” Politics and Society 27, no. 3 (September 1999): 309–46.

WEEK 8

Puerto Rico: The “Showcase of the Americas”

A US Colony- Overview

César Ayala and Rafael Bernabe, Puerto Rico in the American Century: a History Since 1898 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), Chapters 2, 9 and 13.

Land Tenure and Colonialism

Ayala-McCormick, Diego. “Colonialism, ‘Efficiency' and Development: Re-Examining Puerto Rico's Land Reform, 1935-1945.” Journal of Agrarian Change (November 2020). | Local copy

The “Miracle”

Dietz, James. Puerto Rico: Negotiating Development and Change. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. Chapter 2: “The Development Path: A Comparison with East Asia and Latin America,” 29-78.

Optional

Cabán, Pedro A. “Puerto Rico: State Formation in a Colonial Context.” Caribbean Studies 30, no. 2 (July-December 2002): 170-215.

Baumol, William J. and Edward N. Woff, "Catching up in the Postwar period: Puerto Rico as the 'Fifth Tiger'?" World Development, Vol. 24, No. 5 (1996): 869-885.

Dietz, James. Puerto Rico: Negotiating Development and Change. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003. Chapter 2: “The Development Path: A Comparison with East Asia and Latin America,” 29-78.

Lapp, Michael. “The Rise and Fall of Puerto Rico as a Social Laboratory, 1945-1965.” Social Science History 19, no. 2 (Summer 1995): 169-199.

Padín, José A. “Puerto Rico in the Post War: Liberalized Development Banking and the Fall of the ‘Fifth Tiger.'” World Development 31, no. 2 (2003): 281-301.

Brian Marein, "Economic Development in Puerto Rico after US Annexation: Anthropometric Evidence," Economics and Human Biology v.38, 2020

 

WEEK 9

Chile: Neoliberal Showcase?

Land Tenure

Kay, Cristobal. “The Development of the Chilean Hacienda System, 1850–1973.” In Land and Labour  in Latin America: Essays on the Development of Agrarian Capitalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by Kenneth Duncan, Ian Rutledge, and Colin Harding, 1st ed., 103–40. Cambridge University Press, 1978.

The “Miracle”

Petras, James, and Steve Vieux. “The Chilean ‘Economic Miracle': An Empirical Critique.” Critical Sociology 17, no. 2 (July 1990): 57–72.

Riesco, Manuel. “Chile, a Quarter Century On.” New Left Review, no. 238 (November 1999): 97–125.

Silva, Eduardo. “Capitalist Coalitions, the State, and Neoliberal Economic Restructuring: Chile, 1973–88.” World Politics 45, no. 4 (July 1993): 526–59.

Teichman, Judith. “The New Institutionalism and Industrial Policy-Making in Chile.” In Comparative Public Policy in Latin America, edited by Jordi Diez and Susan Franceschet, 54–77. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

WEEK 10

TBA

OTHER READINGS

 

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

Ankie Hoggvelt, Globalization and Postcolonial Development; the New Political Economy of Development. (Palgrave: 2004). (Chapter 8, "Africa: Exlusion and the Containment of Anarchy).

Colin Leys. The Rise and Fall od Development Theory. Boomington: indiana University Press, 1996.

Atul Kohli, State Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery. Cambridge: Cambridge rinceton University Press, 2004. (Part 4, Nigeria).