Extra Reading

Here are links to the extra readings on the syllabus, in the order listed on the syllabus. Remember that these readings are entirely optional and you are not responsible for their content in any way during the course. However, if you'd like to dig a little deeper into certain topics, these are good places to start. If you are extremely interested in a particular topic and would like a longer reading list, feel free to come see me and we can discuss other articles and literature.

•  DeLong, “Review of Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel”, 1999. Link.

•  Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson, “Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth” Handbook of Economic Growth (Chapter 6), 2005. Link.

•  North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance , 1990. See library.

•  Perkins, Susan, “Does Prior Experience Really Pay?”, September 2006. Link.

•  Djankov, La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, and Shleifer, “Courts”, Quarterly Journal of Economics , May 2003. Link.

•  Bertrand, Mehta, and Mullainathan, “Ferreting Out Tunneling: An Application to Indian Business Groups”, Quarterly Journal of Economics , February 2002. Link.

•  “Dancing with the Bear”, The Economist, February 2007. Link.

•  Zhao, “Doing R&D in Countries with Weak IPR Protection: Can Corporate Management Substitute for Legal Institutions?”, manuscript, 2004. Link.

•  “Fakes!” Business Week, February 2005. Link.

•  Shleifer and Vishny, “Corruption,” Quarterly Journal of Economics , August 1993. Link.

•  Fisman and Miguel, “Corruption, Norms and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets,” Journal of Political Economy, 2008. Link.

•  Rose-Ackerman, Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform, 1999, Chapters 2-5. See library.

•  “U.S., Other Nations Step Up Bribery Battle,” Wall Street Journal, September 2008. Link.

•  Excerpt of Texaco corporate charter re: Bribery and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Link.

•  Jones and Olken, “Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth since World War II,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005. Link.

•  Jones and Olken, “Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War,” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009. Link.

•  Fisman, “Estimating the Value of Political Connections,” American Economic Review , September 2001. Link.

•  “Grinding the Poor,” The Economist, September 2001. Link.

•  Brown, Deardorff, and Stern, “The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries,” NBER Working Paper #9669, 2002. Link.

•  Irwin, Free Trade Under Fire , 2002, Chapter 6. See library.

•  Maskus, “Ensuring Access to Essential Medicines: Some Economic Considerations”, UC Boulder, mimeo, 2002. Link.

• Mehlum, Moene, and Torvik. “Institutions and the Resource Curse”, The Economic Journal , 2006. Link.

•  Eichengreen, “The Globalization Wars: An Economist Reports from the Front Lines”(review of Stiglitz's Globalization and Its Discontents ), Foreign Affairs , July-August 2002. Link.

•  Kindleberger, Charles. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, 2005 (5th Edition). See library.

•  Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth , 2001. See library.

•  Einhorn, “The World Bank's Mission Creep,” Foreign Affairs , September-October 2001. Link.