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Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Programa de Maestría y Doctorado en Estudios del Desarrollo Global
Economía Política del Desarrollo
Dra. Ana Bárbara Mungaray Moctezuma
Este curso explora diversas teorías que buscan contestar preguntas asociadas a los
problemas del desarrollo ¿Por qué algunos países son pobres y otros ricos? ¿Por qué
algunos países son pobres, represivos y violentos? ¿Por qué algunos de ellos presentan
crecimiento económico acompañado de disminuciones en las libertades individuales?
¿Cuál es el papel del Estado y la economía en estas dinámicas?
1. Problema fundamental del Desarrollo
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Amartya Sen, “The concept of Development” en The Handbook of Development
Economics editado por Hollis Chenery y T.N. Srinivasan (1988) Vol 1. Página 926.
Shaohua Chen y Martin Ravallion, “How have the World’s poorest fared since the
early 1980´s?” World Bank Research Observer, 2004 vol, 19, no.2 página 141-169.
North, Douglass C. 1981. Structure and Change in Economic History. New York,
N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co.
Bueno de Mesquita and Hilton Root. “Governing for prosperity”. Capítulo I.
Keefer and Knack. “Why Don’t Poor Countries Catch Up? A Cross-National test
of an Institutional Explanation”, Economic Inquiry, July 1997, 590
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2006). “The Economic Lives of the Poor,”
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21(1), 141-167
Banerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. 2011. Capitulo 1. Poor economics: a radical
rethinking of the way to fight global poverty. Public Affairs.
2. Instituciones y Desarrollo
• Kenneth L. Sokoloff; Stanley L. Engerman, “History Lessons: Institutions, factors
endowments, and paths of Development in the New World”, in The Journal of
Economic Perspectives, Vol. 14. No. 3 (2000) páginas. 217-232.
• De Soto, Hernando.2000. El misterio del capital. Basic Books.
• Ross Levine, “Law, Endowments, and Property Rights.” Journal of Economic
Perspectives, 19(3), Summer, 2005, 61-88.
• Acemoglu, Daron (2011). Political Economy of Development Lecture Notes,
pagina 5-64.
• Maddison, Angus. 2001. “The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective”
OECD.
3. Democracia y Desarrollo
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Barro, Robert J. (1999) “Determinants of Democracy,” Journal of Political
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Economy 107 (6), S158-S183.
Ross, Michael (2001), “Does Oil Hinder Democracy?” World Politics 53, 325361.
Przeworski, Alvarez, Cheibub, Limongi. 2000. Democracy and Development.
Cambridge University Press. Capítulos 1,3 y Conclusión.
4. Gobierno y Desarrollo
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Stephen Cornell and Joseph Kalt. “Where Does Economic Development Really Come
from? Constitutional Rule among the Contemporary Sioux and Apache,”Economic
Inquiry, July 1995, 402-426 (hand-out);
La Porta, Rafael, Florencia López-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny
(1999),“The quality of government” Journal of Law Economics and
Organization, 15:1.
Easterly, William, Michael Kremer, Lant Pritchett, and Larry Summers (2001),
“The Lost Decades: Developing Countries’ Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform
1980-1999,” Journal of Economic Growth, 6 (June) 135-157
Levitsky, Steven, and María Victoria Murillo. "Variation in Institutional
Strength." Annual Review of Political Science 12 (2009): 115-133.
5. Capital social y desarrollo
• Robert Putnam. Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy.
Princeton University Press, 1992.
• Michael Woolcock y Deepa Narayan, “Social Capital: implications for
development Theory, Reseach, and Policy” en The World Bank Research
Observer. Vol 15, Número 2. Páginas 225-249.
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6. Polarización social y conflicto
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William Easterly and Ross Levine. 1997. "Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies
and Ethnic Divisions." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112(4), 1203-1250.
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Fearon, James D. and David D. Laitin (2003) "Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil
War," American Political Science Review, 97:1, 75Jonathan Di John (2008). “Conceptualising the Causes and Consequences of
Failed States: A Critical Review of the Literature”.
Human Security Report 2009/2010, Chapters 1 and 2
Goldstone, J. A. (2008). "Pathways to State Failure." Conflict Management
and Peace Science 25(4): 285 - 296.
Fearon, James (2004), “Why do some civil wars last so much longer than others?”
Journal of Peace Research 41:3.
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7. Geografía, recursos naturales y orígenes coloniales
• Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, James Robinson (2001), “The Colonial
Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation,” American
Economic Review, 91.
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Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Warner. 1997. “Fundamental Sources of Long-Run Growth,”
American Economic Review:
William Easterly and Ross Levine. “Tropics, Germs and Crops: How Endowments
Influence Economic Development.” March 2002.
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Rodrik, Dani, A. Subramanian and F. Trebbi (2004), “Institutions Rule: The
Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic
Development”, Journal of Economic Growth, 9:2, June
Nathan Nunn and Diego Puga (2009) "Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad
Geography in Africa"
Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian (2009), "The Columbian Exchange: A
History of Disease, Food, and Ideas"
Evaluación:
20% Presentaciones en Clase.
40% Dos ensayos de 5 cuartillas, letra Times New Roman #12, espacio y medio, durante el
semestre. Tema a elegir entre los apartados de la clase.
40% Examen final
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