Global Governance and Development: Great Transformations in the Global Economy

[Translate to English:] Universität Duisburg-Essen, WS 2013/2014

Dirk Messner
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)

Tel.: +49 228 94927-110 (-111)
Email: dirk.messner@idos-research.de
Homepage: www.die-gdi.de

15. October, 9.00 – 12.30

a) Introduction: Why the “new globalization” started in the mid 1980s

Angus Maddison (2002): The West and the rest of the international economic order, Paris
Joseph Nye/John Donahue (2000): Introduction: Governance in a globalizing world, in: Joseph Donahue / Joseph Nye (Hrsg.): Governance in a globalizing World, Washington, 1-41*

b)     Three waves of global change: Transformation of the global economy towards 2030/50
      Dirk, Messner (2011): Three waves of global change – The dynamics of global governance in
   the first half of the 21^st century, in: Thomas Fues/LIU Youfa (eds.), Global governance and
building a harmonious world: a comparison of European and Chinese concepts for international
affairs (Bonn: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute,
Studies 62), 9-38*

Raphael Kaplinsky/ Dirk Messner (2008): The Impact of Asian Drivers onthe Developing World, Special Issue, World Development, Nr. 2,197-209

Paul Kennedy (1989): The rise and fall of great powers, New York

Charles Kupchan et al. (2001): Power in transition. The peaceful change of the international
order, Tokio/ New York

OECD (2010): Perspectives on global development 2010. Shifting wealth, Paris (executive
summary)*

Carmen Reinhart/ Kenneth Rogoff (2009): This time is different. Eight centuries of financial
folly, Princeton, 203-247

Wolfgang Streeck (2011): The Crisis in Context. Democratic Capitalism and Its
Contradictions.

World Bank Indicators

World Bank, GNI per capita Atlas

More data: www.unctad.org; www.undp.org

11 November, 9 – 12.30 (Monday, at DIE in Bonn)

Three waves of global change

Three different perspectives on globalization

Jagdish Bhagwati, J. (2004); In defense of globalization, Oxford*

Justin Lin (2010): New structural economics. A framework for rethinking development, World
Bank Policy Research Paper 5197, Washington*

Joseph Stiglitz (2007): Globalization and its discontents, W. W. Norton, New York

Fitoussi, Jean-Paul / Joseph E. Stiglitz (2011): Chairmen’s summary, in: Jean-Paul Fitoussi /
Joseph E. Stiglitz and the Paris Group (eds): The G20 and recovery and beyond. New York
5-29; 33-38*

a) From divergence to convergence in the new global economy?

Subramanian, Arvind: Introduction, in: Arvind Subramanian (2011). Eclipse. Living in the
Shadow of China’s Economic, Washington D.C., 1 - 12*

Subramanian, Arvind: Forces driving dominance: convergence and gravity, in: Arvind
Subramanian (2011). Eclipse. Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic, Washington D.C.,
69 – 94*

Subramanian, Arvind: Projecting economies and currency dominance, in: Arvind
Subramanian (2011). Eclipse. Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic, Washington D.C.,
99 – 115

Subramanian, Arvind: China as the new raison d’être for reviving multilateralism, in: Arvind
Subramanian (2011). Eclipse. Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic, Washington D.C.,
169 – 187

Spence, Michael: The global economy and developing countries, in:

Michael Spence (2011). The Next Convergence. The future of economic growth in a
multispeed world. New York, 3-25*

Spence, Michael: The high-growth developing countries in the postwar period, in: Michael
Spence (2011). The Next Convergence. The future of economic growth in a multispeed
world. New York, 53-70

Spence, Michael: China’s structural challenge, in: Michael Spence (2011). The Next
Convergence. The future of economic growth in a multispeed world. New York, 194-205

Spence, Michael: Global Governance in a multispeed world, in: Michael

Spence (2011). The Next Convergence. The future of economic growth in a multispeed
world. New York, 247-273*

Presentations

29. November, 9.00 – 12.30

a) The new global poverty map … and the new global middle classes:

Impacts on international politics? Andy Sumner (2010): Global poverty and the new bottom billion, Brighton, IDS
Working Papers Volume 2010, Issue 349, 1–43*

Homi Kharas (2010): The emerging middle class in developing countries, OECD Development Centre Working Paper
No. 285, 2012*

Andy Sumner (2012): Beyond Low and Middle Income Countries: What if There Were Five Clusters of Developing
Countries? IDS Working Papers Volume 2012, No. 404*

b) How does markets work? The role of institutions, rules, and human behaviour – different perspectives?

George Akerlof/ Robert Shiller (2009): Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It
Matters for Global Capitalism. Frankfurt/ New York, 29-92*

Milton Friedman (1990): Free too choose, New York*

Ostrom, Elinor (2003): Toward a behavioural theory of linking trust, reciprocity, and reputation, in: Elinor Ostrom/
James Walker (2003) (eds.): Trust and reciprocity, New York, 19-79*

14. January, 9.00 – 12.30

a) The great transformation towards sustainability

German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) (2011): World in transition – A social contract for sustainability,
Berlin

Leggewie, Claus/ Dirk Messner (2012): The low-carbon transformation—A social science perspective, in: Journal of
Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Vol. 4, Issue 4*

Additional material:

WBGU Symposium on “Low Carbon Prosperity” (summary, papers, videos)

Virtual WBGU - lectures on the “Great transformation towards sustainability”

b) Development within the planetary boundaries: Green Growth? No

Growth? Low Carbon Society? … Comparing Green Transformation

Strategies

Jackson, Tim (2009): Prosperity without Growth, London

OECD (2011): Towards green growth, Paris

UNEP (2011): Towards a green economy, Nairobi

Worldbank (2012): Inclusive green growth, Washington (Please read the executive summary)*

Presenations