Factors of Economic Development

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The UC combines the exposition of the theoretical approaches on the factors of economic development and the critical analysis of national cases through the debate of texts in class, developed both by the students and teacher. 

Learning Outcomes

1. Present and explain the trends of economic development factors in the light of different theoretical approaches. 2. Study in comparative terms the processes of economic development throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, considering some national cases. 3. Discuss the economic backwardness in historical perspective.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Theoretical Perspectives of Economic Development: an overview.
2. Factors of Economic development: trends and changes.
3. Typologies of processes of economic development in a temporal and spatial perspective.
4. The economic backwardness in historical perspective: differences and similarities in terms of geography, economic resources, institutional context and international economic relations.
5. Issues in economic development in the 21st century: a new agenda?

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Participation in classes (20%) : 20.0%
2 research works (individual and group, 40% each) : 80.0%

Bibliography

Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J. A. 2013. Why Nations Fail. The Origins of Power, Pros-perity and Poverty. Great Britain: Profile Books LTD.

Rodrik. D. and Rosenzweig, M. R.(eds). 2010. Handbook of Development Economics, Vol 5. North-holland: Elsevier.

Acemoglu, D. (ed). 2004. Recent Developments in Growth Theory (Vol I and II). North-amptom: Edward Elgar.

Maddison, A. 2001. The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. Paris: Development Centre of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Gerschenkron, A. 1966. Economic backwardness in historical perspective. Cambridge (Massachusetts): The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Kuznets, S. 1966. The Modern Economic Growth: rate, structure and spread. New Ha-ven: Yale University Press.