LANDS Workshop - November 2008

LANDS workshop, November 7-8, 2008, UW Law School

The workshop will examine current debates in development theory, review literature concerning innovations in various policy areas, explore emerging practices in Latin America and elsewhere, and discuss future research directions. The primary format for the workshop will be a series of roundtables at which key texts will be discussed and implications for future research developed. There will be a session on the developmental state in global context with attention to economic theory, institutional implications, and critical accounts; sessions on trade, finance, foreign investment, industrial policy and social policy and presentation of preliminary studies of developments in Brazil.

This workshop also launches the University of Wisconsin’s research collaborative on “Governance in Economic Development: Law, Politics and the Role of the State” with support from WAGE and administered by GLS.

While participation is by invitation only, we have limited space available for outside participants - if you are interested in attending the workshop, please contact Sumudu Atapattu (saatapattu@wisc.edu) by October 31, 2008 with your institutional affiliation and contact details.

Sponsors of the workshop

The workshop is sponsored by the Global Legal Studies Center, UW Law School, LANDS Project, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), East Asian Legal Studies Center (EALSC) and Global Studies.

Draft workshop agenda

Brazil Pilot Study

Readings:

The readings are arranged according to each panel and divided into core readings and additional readings.

List of core reading

List of additional reading

Panel 1 - New Developmental State - Core reading

Charles F. Sabel, Bootstrapping Development: Rethinking the Role of Public Intervention in Promoting Growth, Paper presented at the Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, October 8-10, 2004

Sean O'Riain, The Flexible Developmental State: Globalization, Information Technology, and the "Celtic Tiger", 2000 Politics & Society, 28(2), pp. 157-93

Verena Fritz and Alina Rocha Menocal, Developmental States in the New Millennium: Concepts and Challenges for a New Aid Agenda, 2007 Development Policy Review, 25(5), pp. 531-552

Peter Evans, "The Challenges of the Institutional Turn: New Interdisciplinary Opportunities in Development Theory" in Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg (eds.) The Economic Sociology of Capitalist Institutions, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Rodrik, "Industrial Policy for the Twenty-First Century"

David Trubek, The Political Economy of the Rule of Law: The Challenge of the New Developmental State (forthcoming)

New Developmental State - Additional reading

Dani Rodrik and Romain Wacziarg, Do Democratic Transitions Produce Bad Economic Outcomes?

Dani Rodrik, Rethinking Growth Policies in the Developing World

Panel 2 - Industrial Policy - Core reading

Matthews & Ravenhill, "Strategic Trade Policy: The Northeast Asian Experience"

UNCTAD Trade & Development Report 2006, Chapter V

Panel 3 - Domestic Finance - Core reading

Gompers & Lerner, "Can the Government be an Effective Venture Captalist?"

Chang, "Theories of the State Intervention in Historical Perspective"

Cornia & Addison, "Income Distribution Policies for Faster Poverty Reduction"

Saxenian & Sabel, "Venture Capital in the "Periphery": The New Argonauts, Global Search and Local Institution Building"

Stallings & Studart, "Finance for Development: Latin America in Comparative Perspective," Chapter 9

Chang, "Understanding the Relationship Between Institutions and Economic Development - Some Key Theoretical Issues"

Freeman, "Venture Capital and modern Capitalism"

Domestic Finance - Additional reading

Chang, "Globalization, Transnational Corporations and Economic Development"

Chang, "Public Enterprises in Developing Countries and Economic Efficiency"

Grabel, "International Private Capital Flows and Developing Countries"

Lall, "Technology and Industrial Development in an era of Globalization"

Singh, "The New International Financial Architecture, Corporate Governance and Competition in Emerging Markets"

Foreign Direct Investment - Core reading

Chang, "Regulation of Foreign Investment in Historical Perspective"

ECLAC, "Foreign Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean"

Lall & Narulla, "Foreign Direct Investment and its Role in Economic Development"

Mann & von Moltke, "A Southern Agenda on Investment?"

Porzecanski & Gallagher, "Economic Reform and Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America"

Tobin & Rose-Ackerman, "Foreign Direct Investment and the Business Environment in Developing Countries"

Foreign Direct Investment - Additional reading

Blonigen, "A Review of the Empirical Literature on FDI Determinants"

Chudnovsky & Lopez, "Transnational Corporations' Strategies and Foregin Trade Patterns in MERCOSUR Countries in the 1990s"

Wells, "Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments"

Hausmann & Fernandez-Arias, "Foreign Direct Investment: Good Cholesterol?"

Jensen, "Democratic Governance and Multinational Corporations"

Lopez, EMPRESARIOS, INSTITUCIONES Y DESARROLLO ECONOMICO: EL CASO ARGENTINO

Mortimore, "The Impact of TNC Strategies on Development in Latin America and the Caribbean"

OECD, "Foreign Direct Investment Policy and Promotion in Latin America"

UNCTAD, Foreign Direct Investment and Performance Requirements: New Evidence from Selected Countries"

USAID, "Foreign Direct Investment: Putting it to Work in Developing Countries"

Panel 4 - Trade Policy - Core reading

Chang, "The Future for Trade"

Howse, "From Politics to Technocracy - and Back again: The Fate of the Multialteral Trading Regime"

Jenkins, Peters and Moreira, "The Impact of China on Latin America and the Caribbean"

Rodrik, The Global Governance of Trade as if Development Really Mattered

Stiglitz, "Making Globalization work" Chapter 3

Unger, Free Trade Reimagined, Chapters 1, 3

Wade, "What Strategies are Vialble for Developing Countries Today? The World Trade Organization and the Shrinking of 'developmental space'"

Trade Policy - Additional reading

Krueger, "Trade Policy and Economic Development: How We Learn"

Freeman, "Trade Wars: The Exaggerated Impact of Trade in Economic Debate"

Sabel, "Bootstrapping Development: Rethinking the Role of Public Intervention in Promotion Growth"

Panel 5 - Social Policy - Core reading

Noonan, Sabel & Simon, "The Rule of Law and the Experimentalist Developmental State: Lessons from Child Welfare Reform"

Rittich, "The Future of Law and Development"

Rudra, "Welfare Sates in Developing Countries: Unique or Universal?"