Fall 2007 Course Description
Advanced Topics in Public Policy
| Section Title: |
Development, Globalization, and Crisis |
| Instructor(s): |
James Galbraith |
| Course: |
P A 388K - Advanced Topics in Public Policy
(previously Seminar in Topics in Public Policy) |
| Unique Number: |
65625 |
| Day & Time: |
Thursdays, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
| Room: |
SRH 3.102 |
| Waitlist Information: | For LBJ Students: UT Waitlist Information
For Non LBJ Students: LBJ School Waitlist Instructions |
This course fulfills requirements for the following specialization(s):
Description: This seminar will explore models and cases of economic growth and development, North-South trade, economic stabilization and development finance. It will include a review of developments in Latin America and East Asia, and of the events in Africa, the former Soviet Union and China in the past twenty years. There will be particular reference to problems of debt and financial crisis, and on the effects of globalization on prospects for stable development.
After the introductory phase and first paper, students will assume responsibility for presentation of material in class. Each week a team will be responsible for making a series of presentations in the topic area for that week. In addition to a few books (available for purchase at the Coop East) reading materials for the different topic areas will be on electronic reserve at the PAL. There will be a heavy reading load, three papers, and no examinations.
A first paper assignment will be on a mandatory topic. The second and third papers are to be a cumulative research exercise on a country, region, or topic of your own choice, with full-dress footnotes and so on. The second paper will serve as a first-stage of this exercise; I will read them and provide feedback to help improve the focus and quality of the final product.
This course is a seminar. It may not be taken to satisfy the Advanced Policy Economics requirement, without special permission that will not ordinarily be given.
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