Fall 2000
TR 6:00-7:20PM, PH 125B
Instructor: Otto A. Davis (Toby)
Office:
Porter Hall 223F
E-mail:
od0a@andrew.cmu.edu
Phone: 8-8715
Secretary:
Ruth Sil
Office: Porter Hall 223E
E-mail: rs6h@andrew.cmu.edu
Phone: 8-3255
Co-instructor:
Lu (Lucy) Wang
E-mail: luw@andrew.cmu.edu
Office: Porter Hall 321
Office Hour: By appointment ahead.
This course is concerned with both the
economics and the politics of
development at the international,
national, and local levels.
We will consider policies which help and
hinder development.
One of our aims is to distinguish which hinder and which help.
We will also try to develop an
ability to analyze democratic
political processes because
it is the political mechanism which chooses
policies.
We may also examine other regimes such as dictatorships, but our ability to rationalize policy choices in such settings is less developed. In terms of disciplines relevant to this course -- history, economics, organizations and political science, at least, are involved. The aim of the course is to develop an ability to understand relevant real world phenomena. Hence, we hope that students who finish this class will have an awareness of issues of economic development on both a global and local basis, and have a capacity to understand and explain why any particular policy choices have been made.
Introduction Syllabus Assignment Exams