Syllabus/achievement requirements

Required reading:

* Abramovitz, M. 1998. "Catching up, forging ahead and falling behind." (1986). Selgison, M.A. & J.T. Passé-Smith (Eds). Development and Underdevelopment. The political economy of global inequality, Second edition. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder. 95-114. 20p.

* Amin, S. 1976. Unequal development. An essay on the social formations of peripheral capitalism. Harvester Press, Hassocks. 183-197. 14p.

* Arrighi, G. & J.S. Saul. 1973. "Class formation and economic development in Tropical Africa." (1968). Bernstein, H. (Ed.). Underdevelopment and development. Penguin, Harmondsworth. 14p.

* Baran, P. 1973. The Political Economy of Growth. (1957). Penguin, Harmondsworth. 132-157. 26p.

Bauer, P.T. 1981. Equality, the Third World and Economic Delusion. Harvard University Press, Harvard. (Western Guilt and Third World Poverty). Available online 7p.

* Brookfield, H. 1973. On one geography and a Third World. Inst.Br.Geogr.Trans, No. 58. 1-21. 22p.

Cardoso, F.H. 2000. "Dependency and development in Latin America." (1972)in Timmons Roberts, J. & A. Hite (Eds)." From Modernization to Globalization. Perspectives on Development and Social Change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 10p.

* Dos Santos. T. 1973. "The crisis of development theory and the problem of dependence in Latin America. (1969)." in Bernstein, H. (Ed.). Underdevelopment and development. Penguin, Harmondsworth. 23p.

Frank, A.G. 2000. "The Development of Underdevelopment." (1969). in Timmons Roberts, J. & A. Hite (Eds). From Modernization to Globalization. Perspectives on Development and Social Change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 10p.

* Friedman, M. 2002. Capitalism and freedom. (1962). University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 7-36. 28p.

Fr?bel, F., J. Heinrichs & O. Kreye. 2000. "The New International Division of Labour in the World Economy." (1980) in Timmons Roberts, J. & A. Hite (Eds). From Modernization to Globalization. Perspectives on Development and Social Change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 17p.

* Galeano, E. 1997. "Open veins of Latin America. 25th Anniversary Edition." (1973). Monthly Review Press, New York. 173-262. 56p.

* Gould, P. 1970. "Tanzania 1920-63: the spatial impress of the modernisation process." World Politics, Vol. 22, No. 2. 149-170. 22p.

* Hayek, F.A. 1994. The road to serfdom. (1944). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 112-131.19p.

* Hirschman, A.O. 1958. The strategy of economic development. Yale University Press, London.120-132, 183-201. 30p.

de Janvry, A. & C. Garramón. 2000. "The Dynamics of Rural Poverty in Latin America." (1977) in Timmons Roberts, J. & A. Hite (Eds): From Modernization to Globalization. Perspectives on Development and Social Change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 10p.

* Laclau, E. 1971. Feudalism and Capitalism in Latin America. New Left Review, No. 67. 20p.

* Lenin, V.I. 1916. Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism. www.marxists.org Available online 9p.

Lewis, O. 2000. "A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for La Vida." (1968)in Timmons Roberts, J. & A. Hite (Eds): From Modernization to Globalization. Perspectives on Development and Social Change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 9p.

Luxemburg, R. 1913. The reproduction of capital and its social setting. www.marxist.org 15p.

Mao Tse-tung. 1959. Speech at Cheng-chow. Selected Works. Maoist Documentation Project. www.marxists.org Available online 5p.

* Mundle, S. 1985. "The agrarian barrier to industrial growth." The Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1. 49-80. 31p.

* Myint, H. 1974. The economics of the developing countries. Fourth edition. (1964). Hutchinson University Library, London. 138-149. 11p.

* Myrdal, G. 1975. The Economic Impact of Colonialism. (1956). Mountjoy, A.B. (Ed.). Developing the underdeveloped countries. Macmillan, London. 6p.

* Nurkse, R. 1975. "The theory of development and the idea of balanced growth." (1957). in A.B. Mountjoy (Ed.). Developing the underdeveloped countries. Macmillan, London. 14p.

* Prebish, R. 1976. A critique of peripheral capitalism. Cepal Review, First half of 1976.

* Prebish, R. 1994. "The Latin American Periphery in the Global System of Capitalism." (1981)i Kanth, R. (Ed.). Paradigms in Economic Development. M.E. Sharpe, Armonk. 165-175. 10p.

* Riddell, J.B. 1981. The geography of modernization in Africa: A re-examination. Canadian Geographer, Vol. XXV, No. 3. 290-298. 9p.

* Rodney, W. 1989. "How Europe underdeveloped Africa." (1973) English Press, Nairobi. 9-37, 103-123, 223-260. 89p.

Rostow, W.W. 2000. "The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto." (1960)in Timmons Robert, J. & A. Hite (Eds): From Modernization to Globalization. Perspectives on Development and Social Change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 9p.

* Schultz, T.W. 1980. "Nobel Lecture: The Economics of Being Poor." Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 88, No. 4. 639-651. 12p.

* Slater, D. 1974. "Contribution to a critique of development geography." Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 8. 325-354. 30p.

* Smith, A. 1991. The wealth of nations. (1776). David Campbell Publishers, London. 493-526. 33p.

* Tschudi, A. B. 1973. "People’s communes in China." Norsk Geogr. Tidsskr. 27. 5-37. 24p.

* Wallerstein, I. 1974. The modern world-system I. Academic Press, New York. 3-11, 347-357. 15p.

* Warren, B. 1980. Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism. Verso, London. 110-121, 158-185. 38p.

* = in compendium. Compendium will be available at Kopiutsalget at the bookstore Gnist Akademika at Blindern. Please bring your student card.

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