Professors – March 2013
School of Advanced Studies - Faculty Invited, Disciplines to be taught
The School of Advanced Studies first period will launch from March 4 to March 15, 2013 with the following courses and respective faculty:
Financing Development and Financial Crises
Professor Andrew Fischer (Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands)
Curriculum Vitae
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Lectures
Industrial Foundations of Financing Modern Economic Development
Financing Development and Financial Crises
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The Perils of Paradigm Maintenance in the Face of Crisis
Financial liberalization and the geography of poverty
Putting Aid in its Place: Insights from Early Structuralists on Aid and Balance of Payments an Lesson for Contemporary
Aid Debates
The Social and Political Economy of Global Turbulence
The African Crisis
The Great China Currency Debate: For workers or speculators?
Latin American Debt: I Don't Think We are in Kansas Anymore
Financial Dependence
Big Business and “Dependencia”
Required Readings
Stein, Howard. 2010. ‘Financial liberalisation, institutional transformation and credit allocation in developing countries: the World Bank and the internationalisation of banking.’ Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34(2): 257-273 [17 pages].Fischer, Andrew M. (2009), ‘Putting Aid in its Place: insights from early structuralists on aid and balance of payments and lessons for contemporary aid debates,’ Journal of International Development 21: 856–867 [11 pages] (A-to-Z ISS Journals)
Levine, Ross (2001), ‘International Financial Liberalization and Economic Growth’,Review of International Economics 9(4): 684-698 [15 pages]. Available at: http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Ross_Levine/finance/rlevine/Publication/2001_RIE_Integration%20&%20Growth.pdf
Lewis, W. Arthur (1978), ‘Financial Dependence’, inThe Evolution of the International Economic Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 38-46 [9 pages].
Shadlen, Ken (2007), ‘Debt, Finance, and the IMF: Three Decades of Debt Crises in Latin America,’ in South America, Central America and the Caribbean2007. London: Europa Publications, pp. 8-12 [5 pages] (draft version provided by author).(Scandocs)
Highly Recommended Readings
Arrighi, Giovanni (2002), ‘The African Crisis: World Systemic and Regional Aspects’, New Left Review 15, May-June: 5-36.
Diaz-Alejandro, Carlos F. (1984), ‘Latin American debt: I don’t think we are in Kansas any more’,Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2, pp 335-403. Read first and third sections, pp. 335-367 and pp. 377-403 [57 pages]. Note that the last 13 pages are comments by the then-young Paul Krugman and Jeffrey Sachs.
Fischer, Andrew M. (2011), ‘The Perils of Paradigm Maintenance in the Face of Crisis’, Chapter Two in Peter Utting, Shahra Razavi and Rebecca Buchholz (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development) (eds.),The Global Crisis and Transformative Social Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 43-62 [20 pages].
Levine, Ross, Joseph Stiglitz and Zanny Minton Beddoes (2010), ‘Financial Innovation: Economist Debates’,Economist 23 February 2010 [approx 6 pages], Available at: http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/471
Griffith-Jones, Stephany, Matthias Thiemann, and Leonard Seabrooke (2010), ‘Taming Finance by Empowering Regulators: a survey of policies, politics and possibilities’, Discussion Paper, United Nations Development Program, New York, August 2010. Available at:http://www.stephanygj.net/papers/Discussion-Paper-UNDP.pdf
Further Recommended Reading
Arestis, Philip, and Asena Caner (2009), ‘Financial Liberalisation and the Geography of Poverty’,Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2: 229–244.
Arrighi, Giovanni (2003), ‘The Social and Political Economy of Global Turbulence’,New Left Review 20, March-April: 5-71.
Bagchi, A. Kumar, and Gary Dymski, eds. (2007), Capture and Exclude: Developing Economies and the Poor in Global Finance. Chennai: Tulika Books.
Veronika Dolar and Césaire Meh (2002), ‘Financial Structure and Economic Growth: A Non-Technical Survey,’ Bank of Canada Working Paper 2002-24. Ottawa: Monetary and Financial Analysis Department, Bank of Canada, September.http://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/wp02-24.pdf
Dymski, Gary (2005), ‘Financial Globalization, Social Exclusion and Financial Crisis,’International Review of Applied Economics 19(4): 439-457.
Fitzgerald, E. V. K. (1990), ‘Kalecki on financing development: an approach to the macroeconomics of the semi-industrialised economy’,Cambridge Journal of Economics 14(2): 183-203.
Ghosh, Jayati (2011), ‘Michael Kalecki and the Economics of Development’, in K. S. Jomo (ed.),The Pioneers of Development Economics: Great Economists on Development, London: Zed, pp. 109-122 [14 pages]. Available for free at: http://www.networkideas.org/featart/may2011/Kalecki.pdf
Kregel, Jan (2007), ‘Nurkse and the Role of Finance in Development Economics’, Working Paper No. 520, Levy Economics Institute, Annandale-on-Hudson. Available at:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1031392
Kregel, Jan (2008), ‘Financial Flows and International Imbalances: the role of catching-up by late industrializing developing countries,’The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Working Paper No. 528. http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_528.pdf
Lal, Deepak (2002[1983]), Poverty of Development Economics. London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2002 edition, Chapter 3,
pp. 98-124.Sunkel, Osvaldo (1972), ‘Big Business and “Dependencia”: a Latin American view’, Foreign Affairs 50(3): 517-531. [15 pages]
Wachtel, Paul (2003), ‘How Much Do We Really Know About Growth and Finance?’,Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Q1: 33-47. Available for free athttp://www.frbatlanta.org/filelegacydocs/erq103_wachtel.pdf
Wade, Robert (2000), ‘Wheels within Wheels: Rethinking the Asian Crisis and the Asian Model,’Annual Review of Political Science 3, June: 85-115.
Leading issues in global political economy
Professor Robert Wade (London School of Economics)
Curriculum Vitae
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Lectures
Development & sustainability
Economists’ contributions to 2nd Great Depression; & what they should learn
How to do smart industrial policy (IP)
Why has income inequality remained marginal in public policy?
“The rise of the South” and “the decline of western dominance”? Challenging the conventional wisdom
Sugestion for Readings
Adjusting to multipolarity in the World Bank: ducking and diving, wriggling and squirming
After the Crisis: Industrial Policy and the Developmental State in Low-Income Countries
Iceland’s rise, fall, stabilisation and beyond
Industrial policy reduz
The return of industrial policy
Technology and policy: exploring emerging and potential factors of progress at a global scale
Professor Manuel Heitor (IN+, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
Curriculum Vitae - english version - portuguese version
To learn more about this discipline
Lectures
Learning for uncertainty?
…how people learn?
…a new era of international affairs?
Technology and policy
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Reforming higher education in times of uncertainty: Autonomy, institutional integrity and linkages
Democratizing higher education and the access to science: the Portuguese reform 2006-2010
Opening-up higher education in emerging economies: Autonomy and integrity on the rise of globalization
Developing human capital and research capacity: science policies promoting brain gain
A system approach to tertiary education institutions: towards knowledge networks and enhanced societal trust
Portugal at the crossroads of change, facing the shock of the new: People, knowledge and ideas fostering the social fabric to facilitate the concentration of knowledge integrated communities
On the role of the university in the knowledge economy
Sustainable universities: fostering learning beyond environmental management systems
The ‘‘swing of the pendulum’’ from public to market support for science and technology: Is the U.S. leading the way?
Infrastructures, incentives, and institutions: Fostering distributed knowledge bases for the learning society
Techno-economic Paradigms and Latecomer Industrialization
Knowledge and cities by design – Revisiting the concept of university campuses and science parks in modern societies
Open the box in times of uncertainty and globalized technical change: Implications for Risk Governance, Knowledge Networks and Learning
Does competitive research funding encourage diversity in higher education?
A cultura da experimentação em redes de colaboração: industrialização, desenvolvimento científico e qualificação
Recommended Reading
M. Heitor and H. Horta (2013), “Democratizing higher education and the access to science: the Portuguese reform 2006-2010”, Higher Education Policy
M. Heitor and H. Horta (2012), “Reforming higher education in times of uncertainty: Autonomy, institutional integrity and linkages”, Comparative Education, submitted for publication.
M. Heitor (2013). Open the box in times of uncertainty and globalized technical change: Implications for Risk Governance, Knowledge Networks and Learning. Working Paper
M. Heitor, A. Blyth and T. Heitor (2013), “Knowledge and cities by design: Revisiting the concept of university campuses and science parks in modern societies – CITIES4K”, Working paper.
M Heitor, H. Horta and J. Mendonça (2012), “Developing human capital and research capacity: science policies promoting brain gain”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, submitted for publication.
M. Heitor (2012), “How far university global partnerships may facilitate a new era of international affairs and foster political and economic relations?”,Technological Forecasting and Social Change, submitted for publication. A version of this paper was presented at the ASHE Annual meeting 2012, Las Vegas, November 2012.
M. Heitor and H. Horta (2012), “Opening-up higher education in emerging economies: Autonomy and integrity on the rise of globalization”, Journal of Chinese Education, accepted for publication.
M. Heitor and M. Bravo (2010), “Portugal at the crossroads of change, facing the shock of the new”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 77, pp. 218-247.
H. Horta, J. Huisman and M. Heitor (2008). Does a competitive research funding encourage diversity in higher education? Science and Public Policy, 35(3), pp. 146-158.
M. Heitor (2008). “A systems approach to tertiary education institutions: towards knowledge networks and enhanced societal trust”. Science and Public Policy, 35 (8), pp. 607-617.P.
Conceição, J. Ehrenfeld, M. Heitor and P.S. Vieira (2006) ‘Sustainable universities: fostering learning beyond environmental management systems’, Int. J. Technology, Policy and Management, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp.413–440.
P. Conceição, M. V. Heitor, G. Sirilli and R. Wilson (2004), “The Swing of the Pendulum from Public to Market Support for Science and Technology: Is the US Leading the Way?”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 71(5), pp. 553-578.
P. Conceição, M. V. Heitor, F. Veloso (2003), “Infrastructures, Incentives and Institutions: fostering distributed knowledge bases for the Learning Society”, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 70, pp. 583-617.
Further Recommended Reading
Nelson, R. R. (1962), “The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors”, Universities-National Bureau, NBER, Printed by Princeton Univ. Press; available at http://www.nber.org/books/univ62-1.
Ziman, John (1978). Reliable Knowledge: an Exploration of the Grounds for Belief in Science. Cambridge University Press
Ziman, John (2000). Real Science: What It Is and What It Means. Cambridge University PressR.R: Nelson (2004) “The market economy and the scientific commons”, Research Policy 33 (2004) 455-471.
UNESCO (2010), “UNESCO Science Report 2010”, UNESCO; available from http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/science-technology/prospective-studies/unesco-science-report/unesco-science-report-2010/
Royal Society (2011), “knowledge, networks and nations: global scientific collaboration in the 21st century”, The Royal Society London.
R. Viale, and H. Etzkowitz (2010, editors), “The Capitalization of Knowledge: A Triple Helix of University–Industry–Government”, Edward Elgar Publishing.Philip G. Altbach and Jamil Salmi, Editors (2011), “The Road to Academic Excellence: The Making of World-Class Research Universities”. World Bank 2011
Ziman, John (2000), editor, ”Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process”, Cambridge University Press.
Ostry, S. and Nelson, R. (1995), “Techno-nationalism and techno-globalism: conflict and cooperation”, The Brookings Institution, Washington.
McKinsey Global Institute (2012), “Manufacturing the future: The next era of global growth and innovation”; November.
Thomas, D. and Brown, J.S. (2011), “A New Culture of Learning:Cultivating the Imagination for a world of constant change”, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown.
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