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Academic Year 2003/2004

Institutions and Economic Development
ECON 375 SP

This one-semester course will cover a mix of the standard topics covered in a one-semester development economics course and additional topics relating to the role of institutions (humanly designed formal and informal rules) in the process of economic growth and development. The course will draw substantially on the recent research in new institutional economics. The focus will be on how human societies have developed informal and formal rules and how they have improved them. On this basis, the course will explore how developing countries might improve their institutions both to expand their economic and political transactions and to promote human and physical capital accumulation and technological innovation.

MAJOR READINGS

Book chapters and papers will be used. Some of the authors will be North, Ray, Meier, Nye, Strinivasan, Sen, Greif, and Drobak.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Papers and exams will be required.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

See printout.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS ECON    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: (ECON300 AND ECON301) OR (ECON270 AND ECON301) OR (ECON270 AND ECON271) OR (ECON300 AND ECON271) Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2004

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