Horario de clase
Semestre 2017-1 (agosto-noviembre 2016)

Profesor	Jaime Ros Bosch
Horario	Miércoles de 10:00 a 13:00 hrs.
Salón	Salón H 217, Unidad de Posgrado

Programa y bibliografía

 

Parte I. Los hechos del desarrollo económico y la teoría moderna del crecimiento

1. Los hechos del crecimiento: Comparaciones internacionales de ingreso y crecimiento

• Ros, J., Rethinking Economic Development, Growth and Institutions, Introducción y cap. 1
• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 1
• Hall, R. y C. Jones. Why Do Some Countries Produce more Output per Worker than Others? Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999 (primera parte)
• Levine, R. y W. Easterly, It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models, World Bank Economic Review, 2001
• Pritchett, L. Divergence, Big Time Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1997
• Rodrik, Dani. Industrial development: Some stylized facts and policy directions. Industrial            development for the 21st century: sustainable development perspectives, 2007

2. El modelo de Solow-Swan  y sus limitaciones empíricas

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, cap. 2, (secciones 1 y 2)
• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 2 (parte 1)

• Solow, R., A contribution to the theory of economic growth, Quarterly Journal of Economics 70, 1956
• Solow, R., Growth Theory: an exposition, 1988

3. Modelos básicos de crecimiento endógeno

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, cap. 2 (secciones 3 y 4)

• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 6 (parte 1)

• Kurz, H. y N. Salvadori, New growth theory and development economics, en A. Dutt y J. Ros, International Handbook of Development Economics, Edward Elgar, 2008
• Romer, P. M., Increasing returns and new developments in the theory of growth, in W. Barnett, (ed.), Equilibrium Theory and Applications: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991
• Romer, P., The Origins of Endogenous Growth. Journal of Economic Perspectives Winter 1994, 8: 1, 1994.
• Solow, R.M., Perspectives on growth theory, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1994, 8: 1, 1994

4. Extensiones del modelo neoclásico: Ahorro endógeno, riesgo político y trampas de pobreza

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, cap. 3
• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 2 (parte 2)

• King, R., y S. Rebelo, Transitional dynamics and economic growth in the neoclassical model, American Economic Review 83, 1993
• Nelson, R., A theory of the low level equilibrium trap in underdeveloped economies, American Economic Review, 46: 894-908. 1956
• Barro, R., Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross Country Empirical Study

5. El capital humano en modelos neoclásicos y de crecimiento endógeno

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, cap. 4
• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 2 (parte 2) y cap. 6 (parte 2)

• Mankiw, G., The growth of nations, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, (1) 1995.
• Mankiw, G., D. Romer, and D. Weil , A contribution to the empirics of economic growth, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 152, 1992
• Lucas, R., On the mechanics of economic development, Journal of Monetary Economics, 1988
• Nelson, R. and E. Phelps, Investment in humans, technological diffusion and economic growth, American Economic Review, 56, 1966
• Benhabib, J. and M. Spiegel, Technological diffusion and economic growth, in P. Aghion and S. Durlauf, Handbook of Economic Growth

6. Diferenciación industrial y destrucción creativa en la teoría del crecimiento endógeno

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, cap. 5
• Aghion, P. y P. Howitt, The Economics of Growth, caps. 3 y 4
• Lavezzi, A., Smith, Marshall and Young on division of labour and economic growth, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2003
• Lavezzi, A. , Division of Labor and Economic Growth: from Adam Smith to Paul Romer and Beyond, mimeo, 2001

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Parte II. La teoría clásica del desarrollo y el rol de la demanda efectiva en el crecimiento

7. El modelo de Lewis y nociones alternativas de excedente de trabajo

• Ros, J., Rethinking Economic Development, Growth and Institutions, cap. 6
• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 3, secciones 1, 3 y 4
• Lewis, A., Economic development with unlimited supplies of labor, The Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, May, 1954
• Basu, K., Analytical Development Economics. The Less Developed Economy Revisited, 1997, cap. 7
• Little, I., Economic Development: Theory, Policy and International Relations, 1982, cap. 6
• Nurkse, R., Population and capital supply, cap. 2 en Problems of Capital Formation in Underdeveloped Countries, 1953

8. Externalidades tecnológicas, rendimientos crecientes y equilibrios múltiples

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, cap. 7
• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 4
• Ros, J., Classical development theory, en A. Dutt y J. Ros, International Handbook of Development Economics, Edward Elgar, 2008
• Rosenstein-Rodan, P., Problems of industrialization of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Economic Journal, June-September, 1943
• Rosenstein-Rodan, P., Natura facit saltum: analysis of the disequilibrium growth process, in G. Meier and D. Seers (eds.), Pioneers in Development, 1984
• Nurkse, R., The size of the market and the inducement to invest, cap. 1 en Problems of Capital Formation in Underdeveloped Countries, 1953
• Ades, A. and E. Glaeser, Evidence on growth, increasing returns, and the extent of the market, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume CXIV (3), August 1999

9. Economías internas, competencia imperfecta, y externalidades pecuniarias

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, cap. 8

• Ros, J.  La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 5

• Basu, K., Analytical Development Economics. The Less Developed Economy Revisited, 1997, cap. 2

• Murphy, K., A. Shleifer, and R. Vishny, Industrialization and the big push, Journal of Political Economy, October, 1989
• Krugman, P., Toward a Counter-Counterrevolution in Development Theory, Proceedings of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 1992 (* ver también comentario de Stiglitz)
• Skott, P. and J. Ros, The 'big push' in an open economy with non tradable inputs, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Fall 1997, vol. 20, n.1, 1997

10. Crecimiento, demanda efectiva y acumulación de factores

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, caps. 10 y 11

• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap.12
• Ros, J., Fiscal and Foreign Exchange Constraints on Growth, en A. Dutt (ed.), New Directions in Analytical Political Economy, 1994
• Taylor, L., Income distribution, inflation and growth, 1991, cap. 8

11. El modelo de economía dual de Kalecki y modelos estructuralistas de crecimiento

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, caps. 12 y 13

• Basu, K., Analytical Development Economics. The Less Developed Economy Revisited. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997, caps.  4 y 5
• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap.11
• Taylor, L., Income distribution, inflation and growth, 1991, cap. 9 (secciones 1 y 2)
• Findlay, R., The "foreign exchange gap" and growth in developing economies, en J. Bhagwati and others (eds.), Trade, Balance of Payments, and Growth, 1971 (reimpreso como cap. 10 en su International Trade and Development Theory)

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Parte III. Determinantes fundamentales del desarrollo comparado

12. Crecimiento y el patrón de especialización comercial

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, cap. 14

• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 7 sec. 1 y 2, y cap. 9
• Rodriguez-Clare, A., The division of labor and economic development, Journal of Development Economics, 49: 3-32, 1996
• Rodrik, D., Getting Interventions Right: How South Korea and Taiwan Grew Rich, Economic Policy, Vol. 10, No. 20 (April 1995)
• Ciccone, A. y K. Matsuyama, Start up costs and pecuniary externalities as barriers to economic development, Journal of Development Economics 49: 33-60, 1996 
• Rodríguez, F. y D. Rodrik, Trade policy and economic growth: A skeptic's guide to the cross-national evidence, en B. Bernanke y K. Rogoff (eds). NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2000. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001
• Rodriguez, F., International trade and development, en A. Dutt y J. Ros, International Handbook of Development Economics, Edward Elgar, 2008
• Harrison, A. y A. Rodríguez-Clare, Trade, foreign investment, and industrial policy for developing countries (sección 4), en D. Rodrik y M. Rosenzweig (eds), Handbook of Development Economics, vol. 5, 2010

13. Abundancia de recursos naturales y crecimiento

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, cap. 15

• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 8
• Auty, R., Natural resources and development, en A. Dutt y J. Ros, International Handbook of Development Economics, Edward Elgar, 2008
• Pineda, J. y Francisco Rodríguez, Curse or Blessing? Natural Resources and Human Development, en J. A. Ocampo y J. Ros, Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics, OUP, 2011
• Corden, M., Booming sector and Dutch disease economics: a survey and consolidation, Oxford Economic Papers, 1984
• Myint, H., The "classical theory" of international trade and the developing countries, Economic Journal, Vol. 68, No. 270, 1958
• Findlay, R. and M. Lundahl, Natural resources, vent-for-surplus, and the staples theory, in G. Meier (ed.), From Classical Economics to Development Economics, 1994

14. Crecimiento y la economía política de la desigualdad

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, cap. 16

• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 10

• Banerjee, Abhijit y Esther Duflo, Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say?, Journal of Economic Growth, 2003

• Birdsall, N., Income distribution: Effects on growth and development, en A. Dutt y J. Ros, International Handbook of Development Economics, Edward Elgar, 2008

• Easterly, W., Inequality Does Cause Underdevelopment, Journal of Development Economics, 84, 2007
• Engerman, S. y K. Sokoloff, Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development among New World Economies, Economia, Fall 2002

15. Instituciones, infraestructura social y desarrollo

• Ros, J., Rethinking economic development, growth and institutions, cap. 17
• Acemoglu, D., S.  Johnson y J. Robinson, Institutions as a fundamental cause of long run growth (secciones 1 a 4), en P. Aghion y S. Durlauf (eds), Handbook of Economic Growth, 2005
• Hall, R. and C. Jones. Why Do Some Countries Produce more Output per Worker than Others?, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999
• Bértola, L., Institutions and the Historical Roots of Latin American Divergence, en J. A. Ocampo y J. Ros, Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics, OUP, 2011
• Chang, H-J., Institutions and economic development: Theory, policy and history, Journal of Institutional Economics, 2011
• Rodriguez, F., Does one size fit all in policy reform?: Cross national evidence and its implications for Latin America, in S. Mainwaring and T. Scully (eds), Democratic Governance in Latin America, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010

16. Geografía y colonialismo

• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 18

• Acemoglu, D., S. Johnson y J. Robinson. The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: an Empirical Investigation, American Economic Review, 2001.
• Acemoglu, D., S.  Johnson, y J. Robinson, Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of Modern World Income Distribution, Quarterly Journal of Economics CXVII, 2002
• Easterly, W., The Elusive Quest for Growth, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. Caps. 13 – 14.
• Rodrik, D., A. Subramanian y F. Trebbi, Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development, Journal of Economic Growth, 9(2), 2004
• McArthur, J. y J. Sachs, Institutions and Geography: A Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson. NBER Working Paper 8114, Feb. 2001
• Sachs, J., Tropical Underdevelopment, CID Working Paper No. 57, December 2000
• Sachs, J., Institutions Don’t Rule: Direct Effects of Geography on Per Capita Income, NBER Working Paper 9490. Feb. 2003
• Engerman, S. y K. Sokoloff, Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development among New World Economies, Economia, Fall 2002

17. Éxitos y fracasos en el desarrollo económico

• Ros, J., La teoría del desarrollo y la economía del crecimiento, cap. 19

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