Global Economics/ECO 600 Schedule of Work
3/6 Intros/Computer Lab for second session of class
Discuss Chapters 1 and 2 of text (read before first class)
The Evolving Globalization
3/13 Discuss Chapters 3, 4, and 5
Limits to Growth? Population, Food and Resources
ejps Reviews
The Global Warming Ruse
Stopping Global Warming in Africa
Ending the 55 MPH Speed Limit
The Central Importance of Normal Profit in Policy Analysis
3/20 Discuss Chapters 6 and 7
The Price Mechanism and Other Structures of Global Systems
#1 Oral Presentations of Article Reviews
ejps Reviews
The Third World War
Sadaam Scam
The China Question
It's Reagan's Economy, Stupid
3/27 Discuss Chapters 8 and 9
The Geometry of Industrialization
#2 Oral Presentations of Article Reviews
ejps Reviews
African Spring
Consequences of Sustainable Development
Clinton's War on Russia
The Benefits of Immigration
4/10 Discuss Chapter 10
Technology Transfer
#3 Oral Presentations of Article Reviews
ejps Reviews
Sorting Out IMF Funding
Abolish the IMF
Arms Prob the IMF?
4/17 Discuss Chapters 11 and 12
Trade Regimes
#4 Oral Presentations of Article Reviews
ejps Reviews
Sudan and the IMF
IMF Needs Reform
Agr Export and the IMF
4/24 Final Exam
Matching Test Drawn from terms at end of each chapter of text
Book Reviews Due
Research Project Due
Case Study Reports Due
Instructor's Bio
Ron Ziegler has taught Economics at Detroit College of Business since 1987.
He is also adjunct professor of Political Science at Wayne State University
where he is currently writing his dissertation to secure a PhD, has both
Bachelor and Master degrees in Political Science from Wayne
and has taught with Detroit Board of Education since 1967.
Contacting Instructor
Due to the brevity of the term, it may become essential for the student
to contact the instructor at times other than the few scheduled Saturday
sessions. Those who have access to the internet through AOL can reach
me anytime I am on line by instant messaging me at RGZiegler@aol.com.
If you do not have AOL connection, email to that address is perhaps the
next fastest way to contact me. I can also be reached by phone by calling
my home office number 1.810.775.3364 and leaving a message. If there is
anything I can do about your message, I will call you back as soon as it
is possible to do so. The student may also leave a voice mail message
in my campus phone mailbox which I will checking twice a week during
the term. Since I am only on campus for most of the term on Friday
evenings and Saturdays, please take advantage of these ways to
contact me for assistance as needed.
Grading Instruments
There will be five grading instruments employed in this course, with each one
making up 1/5 or 20% of the final course grade. That grade will be an average
of those five grades, with
A representing outstanding work
B representing acceptable performance
C not representative of graduate level performance
Final Exam 20 %
Research Project 20 %
Select ONE of the Topics for Discussion from the end of text chapters
and develop a full blown research design of it.
Book Review: 20 %
Read and Critically Compare any of the following sets of books (500 words):
1)Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
and
Heated Debate by Robert Bolling
Environmental Gore ed by John Baden
or
Hot Talk, Cold Science by S. Fred Singer
2)Theory of Population by Thomas Malthus
Population Matters by Julius Simon
3)Limits to Growth by Meadows, et al (Report for the Club of Rome)
The Ultimate Resource by Julius Simon
4) How the West Grew Rich by Rosenberg and Birdzell
The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton Folsom
5)The Industrial Revolution and Free Trade ed by Burton Folsom
Africa In Chaos by George Ayittey
6)Money and the Nation State ed by Dowd and Timberlake
Less Than Zero by George Selgin
7)Centuries of Economic Endeavor by John Powelson
(Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast with the Third World)
The Noblest Triumph by Tom Bethell
(Property and Prosperity Through the Ages)
8)The Roosevelt Myth by John Flynn
Science and the Founding Fathers by J. Bernard Cohen
Article Reviews 20 %
Five written Weekly Reviews of ejps articles/200 word critical reviews
(Select one from each set)
http://www.Geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2897
To be e mailed to instructor by Thursday before each scheduled class
RGZiegler@aol.com
(or posted on a web page created for this by student with guidance from instructor)
The two case studies submitted in report form(these may be found in the back of textbook)
Oral Reviews/Class Involvement 20 %
Four oral examinations by each student
Two from list of articles located in DCB/Warren Library
Two from list of articles not found in DCB Library
DCB Library Articles
Bhagwati, Hasass, et al
Can Asia Recover?
For Aff
May/June 98
Cooper
Why Kyoto Won't Work
For Aff
Mr/Apr 98
Feldstein
Asia Fallout/IMF Errors
For Aff
Mar/Apr 98
Funabashi, Kristof, Carpenter
Asia on the Edge
For Aff
Nov/Dec 98
Haimowitz
The Longevity of Expansions
Economic Review
Fourth Qtr 98:83-4
Hoenig
Asian Financial Crisis
Economic Review
Fourth Qtr 98: 83-2
Holtz
Introduction of Euro Needs More Hard Work
Business Economist
1998: 29-3
Hornstein
Inventory Investment and the Business Cycle
Economic Quarterly
Spg 98:84-2
Huntington, Samuel (1993)
The Clash of Civilizations
For Aff 72:78-88
Krugman, Paul
Depression Economics Returns
For Aff
Jan/Feb 99
Krugman, Paul
Does Third World Growth Hurt First World Prosperity?
Harvard Business Review
July/Aug 94
Krugman, Paul and Weber
The End of the Business Cycle?
For Aff
Ju/Au 97
Krugman, Paul
Myths and Realities of US Competitiveness
Science
(Nov) 811-815
Mahler, Halfdan (1980)
People
Scientific American
243:66-77
Ohmae, Kenichi (1993)
The Rise of the Region State
For Aff
72:78-88
Yavlinsky
Russia's Phony Capitalism
For Aff
May/June 98
Articles in Journals not found in DCB Library
Balassa, Bela (1979)
The Changing Pattern of Comparative Advantage
in Manufactured Goods
Review of Economics and Statistics (May)259-266
Baldwin, Robert (1979)
Determinants of Trade and Foreign Investments
Review of Economics and Statistics (Feb) 40-48
Bauer, P.T. and B.S. Yamey (1951)
Economic Progress and Occupational Distribution
Economic Journal 61:741-755
Cable, V.(1995)
The Diminished Nation-State
Daedalus 124:23-54
Chameidas, W. L. et al (1994)
Growth of Continental-Scale Metro-Agri-Plexes,
Regional Ozone Production, and World Food Production
Science 264:74-77
Dunning, John (1995)
What's Wrong -- and Right -- with Trade Policy?
The International Trade Journal (Summer) 163-202
Evans, Lloyd T. (1980)
The Natural History of Crop Yield
American Scientist 68:388-397
Foote, Nelson and Paul Hatt (1953)
Social Mobility and Economic Advancement
American Economic Review 63:364-7
Kontratiev, N.D. (1935)
The Long Wave in Economic Life
The Review of Economic Statistics 17:105-15
Leontief, Wassily (1953)
Domestic Production and Free Trade:
The American Capital Position Re-examined
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (Sept)
Lucas, Robert (1988)
On the Mechanics of Economic Development
Journal of Monetary Economics 22:3-42
Macdougall, G.D. (1951)
British and American Exports:
A Study Suggested by the Theory of Comparative Costs Pt 1
Economic Journal (June19) 697-724
Romar, Paul W. (1986)
Increasing Returns and Long Term Growth
Journal of Political Economy 94:1002-1037
Samuelson, Paul (1948)
International Trade and the Equalization of Factor Prices
Economic Journal (June) 163-184
Smil, Vaclav (1994)
How Many People Can the Earth Feed?
Population and Development Review 20:255-292
Vernon, R. (1966)
International Investmentand International Trade in the Product Cycle
Quarterly Journal of Economics 80:190-207
Young, Allyn (1928)
Increasing Returns and Economic Progress
Economic Journal 38:527-542
Young, Steve et al (1994)
Multinational Enterprise and Regional Economic Development
Regional Studies 28:657-678