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International Economics and Globalization

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International Economics and Globalization

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Anno accademico 2018/2019

Codice dell'attività didattica
CPS0365
Docente
Mario Aldo Cedrini (Titolare dell'insegnamento)
Corso di studi
Master's Degree Course in Area and global studies for international cooperation
Anno
1° anno
Periodo didattico
Primo semestre
Tipologia
Caratterizzante
Crediti/Valenza
6
SSD dell'attività didattica
SECS-P/02 - politica economica
Modalità di erogazione
Tradizionale
Lingua di insegnamento
Inglese
Modalità di frequenza
Facoltativa
Tipologia d'esame
Scritto
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Sommario insegnamento

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Obiettivi formativi

The course aims at providing the basic theoretical instruments for the comprehension of the historical and ongoing processes of globalization in a "global political economy" perspective, that combines theory, history, and contemporary issues and debates, allowing students to understand the current debate about globalization and the main paradigms and orientations as regards international cooperation. The main focus is on how the policies of autonomous nations and regions interact at the international level in a globalized economy, and on the desirability of an international economic order (and related institutions) enhancing the policy space available to member countries (and emerging economies in particular). 

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Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

On completion, students should demonstrate to have acquired knowledge of the terminology, principles, main techniques, and of the historical evolution of the discipline of global political economy, as well as the ability to understand theoretical and applied aspects conveyed by the textbook and complementary readings.

Students will be able to use the methods of global political economy and international macroeconomics to analyse socio-economic issues related to globalization, to evaluate the available forms and possibilities of international cooperation, as well as to understand the current debate on economic policies in the international and in regional contexts. Students will learn to analyze effects and implications of economic policies, as well as the trade-offs implied in policy-making, in environments shaped by strong regional and international interdependence. In particular, students will be able to identify rooms for manoeuvre available to policy-makers of national and regional entities in globalized contexts, and reflect upon the character of a desirable reform of the international architecture. 

Students will also display autonomy of judgement, and the skills required to present in a logical and efficient manner the knowledge acquired during the course, in both oral and written form, by using communication forms adequate to different categories of listeners. In particular, students will be able to interpret available international macroeconomic data, showing full awareness of the existence of (and possibility to use) different interpretative models for macroeconomic phenomena, and to detect the impact of globalization (de jure and de facto) on national countries' and regional economies' policy space.

Students will also acquire the competencies and abilities to learn required to apply in an original manner methods and tools they have become familiar with during the course to conduct further autonomous researches (in different contexts, that is in both professional contexts and in specialising educational contexts) intended to deepen, extend and update the course contents.

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Modalità di insegnamento

The course consists in 36 hours of frontal lectures, which may include tutorials on the course contents. Students will in any case be actively engaged in learning, and will be asked to apply and contextualize the theoretical concepts acquired in real-life issues, by producing solutions and arguments for specific case studies.  

 

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Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

In this course, assessment is through a written exam at the end of the course.

Students must take a 90-minutes written exam on the whole ensemble of topics covered during the course. This includes 5 short-answer questions (each yielding a maximum score of 2/30), needed to evaluate whether students have acquired the basic contents of the course (principles, methods, concepts, terms, and theories), and 2 long-answer questions (each yielding a maximum score of 10/30), which will serve to assess the acquisition of competencies and know-how required to analyse a problem related to globalization and international cooperation, suggest an interpretation, and adequate solutions, in full awareness of the complexity of such problems, which imply endless repercussions, and of the possibility to employ alternative basic assumptions and theoretical frameworks. To get access to the written exam, students must register online by using the Esse3 - System of the University of Turin, and an identification card. During the exam, it is not allowed to use mobile phones, textbooks or notes of any kind, nor papers different from those that have been made available at the beginning of the exam. To pass the examination, students must reach a score of 18/30.

Dates: January 7, January 21, February 4, 2019, at 9 am. 

Exam, Essay option

Students who wish so can participate in group (2/3) work (or work individually) and write a paper, that should be no longer than 5,000 words, on a specific topic related to the course contents.

Students will then deliver an oral presentation with PowerPoint support (20 minutes in length; 10 minutes for discussion in class).

The essay option replaces the two long-answer questions of the written exam (students will thus take a 30-minutes exam with 5 short-answer questions). Note that, given the collective-in-nature character of the essay, and the need to evaluate individual acquisition of competencies and individual abilities, students who opt for the essay have in any case to obtain a positive score in the individual (short-answer) exam.  

Papers are due on December 10, 2018.

Presentations will be held in the last available week of December and in the first available week of January.

Students should notify the teacher by Monday 29 October if they want to pursue the essay option, and inform him about the composition of groups (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1minYvgT4ui8ew0tgc3F-OCw45pgkfmC8Ue-M9r37Cw4/edit?usp=sharing).

Essays will investigate a specific issue treated in UNCTAD’s TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT REPORT, 1981-2011: Three decades of thinking development, available at: https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/gds2012d1_en.pdf. Papers will first briefly introduce and historically contextualize the issue in an “international political economy” perspective (the textbook, suggested readings and course slides provide the basic theoretical framework), by adopting the perspective of developing countries. They will then retrace earlier analyses of the selected issue in previous Trade and Development Reports (available at: https://unctad.org/en/Pages/Publications/TradeandDevelopmentReport.aspx), and find further developments and new elements for discussion in TDRs published from 2012 on.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

  • The concept of policy space
  • Nation states, policy coordination and global governance
  • Financial liberalization, capital flows and capital controls
  • Export-led growth and its limits
  • The Doha development round
  • Instability in commodity markets and stabilization schemes
  • UNCTAD’s neo-structural approach to development
  • The developmental origins of Bretton Woods
  • Debt, crises and structural adjustment programs
  • Development and policy-making: Strategic (the need to experiment) vs. comprehensive (one-size-fits-all) visions
  • South-South cooperation
  • The surrender of public authorities to the power of financial markets
  • The rise and decline of fiscal policy
  • The current international non-system: an interregnum of “productive incoherence”?
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Programma

Introduction to "international economics and globalization" as field of study, and to global political economy as discipline.

History and periods of globalization.

Basic principles and main theoretical tools of open-economy macroeconomics. 

Anarchy in the international environment and the need for a global framework promoting the general interest: the historical evolution of the international economic order, from the gold standard of the first era of globalization to the current disorder.

The Bretton Woods system: birth of a monetary system, its developmental orientation, the legacy of its "embedded liberalism" to today's world, and the continuing relevance of the "Keynes plan" for global reform. 

The rise and fall of development economics in historical perspective, from the dawn of the discipline to recent approaches. 

The problem of policy space in a globalized world: impact of globalization on the state; regionalism and globalization; the future of the international economic order. 

Testi consigliati e bibliografia

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The course employs "Global Political Economy", edited by John Ravenhill (Oxford University Press, 2016), as main theoretical foundation for the understanding and analysis of globalization and international cooperation (chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13). 

The course is also based on The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) "Trade and Development Report" (TDR), issued every year for the annual session of the Trade and Development Board. The Report analyses current economic trends and major policy issues of international concern, and makes suggestions for addressing these issues at various levels. Students will have to read the latest TDR (available at: http://unctad.org/en/Pages/Publications/TradeandDevelopmentReport.aspx) and the book "Trade and Development Report 1981-2011. Three decades of thinking development" (available at: http://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/gds2012d1_en.pdf). They will also be required to read selected monographic chapters from some recent issues of the TDR, focusing on the reform of the international architecture (TDR 2015, chapter 3), policy space (TDR 2014, chapters 3, 4, 7), and international cooperation (TDR 2017, chapter 7). 
 
Students will be given selected advanced material to read for further study. Dani Rodrik's "The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy" (Oxford University Press, 2012) is a highly recommended reading. 


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Orario lezioni

GiorniOreAula
Lunedì10:00 - 12:00
Martedì10:00 - 12:00
Mercoledì8:00 - 10:00Aula C1 Campus Luigi Einaudi - CLE

Lezioni: dal 24/09/2018 al 31/10/2018

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Note

Students of "Area and Global Studies for International Cooperation" without previous experiences of studying Economics are invited to attend a "Preparatory course of Economics" taught by Angela Ambrosino (http://www.agic.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl/Show?_id=ulxc.). The course provides a basic introduction to the economics discipline, its main principles and the way of reasoning adopted by economists. It is generally divided into two main sections, devoted respectively to Micro- and Macro- Economics, and includes some basic knowledge of International Economics.

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