ECON 320
Ethics and Economics of Development
Spring 2008
 
 
Class Notes,
Homework and answers
Assignments, and Handouts
 
TTH
 
2:40 pm - 4:10 pm
Academic 1027

Dr. Gabriel Martínez
Office: Academic 2056
 
 
 
 
Economics can be one of the most interesting and useful things you’ll ever learn. Economics is filled with excitement: the pleasure of understanding a model, the thrill of the hunt for explanations, the electrifying debates about the big questions of society.

At the same time, it is tremendously useful. Families, corporations, and governments use economics when they make decisions about their income and their expenses, the products they make, their reactions to events, and their world-changing policies.

Some of the most influential people in the world are economists by training and by profession. The world is in great need of economists who are leaders, both professionally and morally.

If you put your brain and your heart into this class – if you do the work and go beyond the assignments – you will be richly rewarded.
 
Schedule of Classes, Readings, and Assignments
Click on the name for the Class Notes or Assignments
Date Reading Assignments
    Perkins, Radelet, Lindauer   Meier, Rauch Literature Review Country Study
Jan 15 T Introduction; Video        
    Part One: Development and Growth        
17 TH 1. Patterns of Development  Table 1-1        
22 T 2. Measuring Economic Growth and Development Homework Ch 1      
24 TH   Study Space I. B.
 Presentation Schedule		 Proposal  
29 T     I.A.
 Presentation Schedule		   Preliminary Country Investigation
31 TH 3. Economic Growth: Concepts and Patterns
The Mountain Man and the Surgeon 		 Homework Ch 2      
Feb 5 T     I.C.
 Presentation Schedule		    
7 TH 4. Theories of Economic Growth
    Charles Jones' Economic Growth page
    Solow_Example.xls		 Homework Ch 3      
12 T     II
 Presentation Schedule		    
  14 TH 5. States and Markets

Due Friday
Homework Ch4

   M-R Literature Review  
19 T The Commanding Heights DVD   IX
 Presentation Schedule		   Full Country Investigation
21 TH Ch 9.IV, Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
 On the Vatican web page		 Homework Ch5      
26 T Test 1 Study Guide    
    Part Two: Distribution and Human Resources        
28 TH 6. Inequality and Poverty
    Lorenz Curve
    Calculation of the Gini Coefficient		        
Mar 4 T     VIII
 Presentation Schedule		    
  6 TH 7. Population Homework Ch6     Framework
11 T     IV.C
 Presentation Schedule		    
  13 TH Ch.2 The Ends and the Means of Development and Ch.4 Poverty as Capability Deprivation Homework Ch7 A. Sen    
18 T NO CLASS        
20 TH Holy Thursday        
25 T Easter Break        
27 TH Easter Break        
    Part Three: Saving, Investment, and Capital Flows        
Apr 1 T 11. Investment, Productivity, and Growth        
3 TH 13. Financial Policy Homework Ch11 V    
4 F         Application
(Friday, 9am)
    Part Four: Production and Trade        
8 T          
10 TH 19. Trade and Development   III
 Presentation Schedule		    
14 M         Application
re-submit (optional)
(Monday, 9am)
  15 T   Homework Ch19      
17 TH 21. Managing an Open Economy   V
 Presentation Schedule		    
21 M         Policy Recommendation
(Monday, 9am)
  22 T ch 21 continued Homework Ch21      
24 TH Presentations of papers by students (according to the presentation schedule)        
29 T Presentations of Country Study        
May 1 TH Reading Day - Test 2   2pm Study Guide    
 

 

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