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CLASS # TOPICS READINGS ASSIGNMENTS
1 Introduction    
2 National Traditions of State and Economy: Britain

Beer, Samuel. British Politics in the Collectivist Age. Chap. 1-3.

Cutler, Tony, Karel Williams, and John Williams. Keynes, Beveridge and Beyond, Introduction and chap. 1.

Winch, Donald. "Keynes, Keynsianism, and State Intervention." 

Weir, Margaret. "Ideas and Politics: The Political Sources of Economic Policy."

Hall, Peter. Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France. Chap. 2-5.

King, Desmond,  and Stewart Wood. "The Political Economy of Neoliberalism: Britain and the US in the 1980s."

  
3 National Traditions of State and Economy: France

Shonfield, Andrew. Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power. Chap. 5-8.

Kuisel, Richard. Capitalism and the State in Modern France. Chap. 1, 5 and 10.

French Documents (Xerox).

Rosanvallon, Pierre. "Development of Keynesianism in France."

  
4 National Traditions of State and Economy: Germany

Shonfield, Andrew. Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power. Chap. 11 and 12.

Herrigel, Gary. Industrial Construction, the Sources of German Industrial Power. Chap. 1-3.
 
Giersch, Herbert, Karl-Heinz Paqué, Holger Schmieding. The Fading Miracle: Four Decades of Market Economy in Germany. Chap. 1.

Allen, Christopher. "The Underdevelopment of Keynesianism in the FRG."

James, Harold. "What is Keynesian about Deficit Spending."

  
5 National Traditions of State and Economy: Italy

Shonfield, Andrew. Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power. Chap. 9.

Ginsborg, Paul. A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1998. Chap. 3-9.

Locke, Richard. Remaking the Italian Economy. Chap. 1, 2 and 6.

  
6 Building the Boom: Economic Growth in the Postwar Era

Shonfield, Andrew. Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power. Chap. 1-4.

Boltho, Andrea, ed. The European Economy: Growth and Crisis, Introduction, chap. 1 and 10.

Eichengreen, Barry. "Institutions and Economic Growth: Europe after World War II."

 Short Paper Assignment 1 distributed (12-15 pages)
7 Building the Boom: The International System and Economic Reconstruction

Block, Fred L. The Origins of International Economic Disorder: a study of United States international monetary policy from World War II to the present. Chap. 1-5.
   
Milward, Alan S. The Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945-51. Chap. 14.
   
De Long, J. Bradford, and Barry Eichengreen. "The Marshall Plan: History's Adjustment Program."

Milward, Alan S. The European Rescue of the Nation-State. Chap. 1, 2 and 4.

  
8 From the Golden 1960s to the Crisis of the 1970s: Politics and Economy from the "Trente Glorieuses" to Stagflation

Haas, Ernst. "Technocracy, Pluralism and the New Europe." 

Lipset, S. M. "The Changing Class Structure and Contemporary European Politics."

Armstrong, Phillip, Andrew Glyn and John Harrison. Capitalism Since 1945. Chap. 8-19.

Brittan, Samuel. "Inflation and Democracy." 

Goldthorpe, John. "The Current Inflation: Towards Sociological Account."

 Short Paper Assignment 1 due
9 European Capitalism today: Making Europe

Weiler, Joseph. The Constitution of Europe: Do the new clothes have an emperor? Chap. 1 and 2.
 
Majone, Giandomenico, ed. Regulating Europe. Chap. 1-4.

Alter, Karen. Establishing the Supremacy of European Law: the Making of an International Rule of Law in Europe. Chap. 1, 2, 5 and 6.

  
10 Varieties of Capitalism

Hall, Peter, and David Soskice. Varieties of Capitalism, Introduction.

Berger, Suzanne, and Ronald Dore, eds. National Diversity and Global Capitalism. Introduction.

Boyer, Robert. "The Convergence Hypothesis Revisited: Globalization but still the Century of Nations?"

Boltho, Andrea. "Has France Converged on Germany?"

Streeck, Wolfgang. "Lean Production in the German Auto Industry."

 Short Paper Assignment 2 distributed (12-15 pages)
11 Globalization and the Future of the Welfare State Levy, Jonah. "Vice into Virtue."

Stephens, John, Evelyne Huber, and Leonard Ray. "The Welfare State in Hard Times."

Streeck, Wolfgang. "From Market Making to State Building? Reflections on the Political Economy of European Social Policy."		  
12 Globalization and European Politics Thelen, Kathleen. "Varieties of Labor Politics in the Developed Democracies." 

Ancelovici, Marcos. "Organizing against Globalization: The Case of ATTAC in France."

Scheve, Kenneth, and Matthew Slaughter. "What Determines Individual Trade Policy Preferences?"		 Short Paper Assignment 2 due
13     Research Paper due (15-20 pages)