Courses:

Evans, Peter. "The Eclipse of the State? Reflections on Stateness in an Era of Globalization." World Politics 50 (1997): 62-87.

Bruton, Henry. "A Reconsideration of Import Substitution." Journal of Economic Literature 36 (1998): 903-936.

Huang, Yasheng. "China Could Learn from India." Kantipur Daily, February 2, 2006, online edition.

Polak, Ben, and Jeffrey G. Williamson. "Poverty, Policy, and Industrialization in the Past." Chapter 10 in Including the Poor: Proceedings of a Symposium. Edited by Michael Lipton and Jacques van der Gaag. Washington, DC: World Bank Publications, 1993, pp. 219-246. ISBN: 9780821326749.

Hirschman, Albert O. "The Political Economy of Import-Substituting Industrialization in Latin America." In A Bias for Hope: Essays on Development and Latin America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1971, pp. 85-123. ASIN: B000MAOVW6.

Helleiner, Gerald K. "Trade, Trade Policy and Industrialization Reconsidered." In World Development Studies 6. Helsinki, Poland: UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research, 1995.

Portes, Alejandro. "The Informal Economy and Its Paradoxes." Chapter 17 in The Handbook of Economic Sociology. 2nd ed. Edited by Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780691121260.

Saavedra-Chanduvi, Jaime. "The Informal Sector and the State: Institutions, Inequality, and Social Norms." In Informality: Exit and Exclusion. By Guillermo Perry, William Maloney, Omar Arias, Pablo Fajnzylber, Andrew Mason, and Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2007. ISBN: 9780821370926. Required: pp.215-223 (up to "The tax side..."), rest optional.

Peattie, Lisa. "What Is to be Done With the Informal Sector? A Case Study of Shoe Manufacturing in Colombia." In Towards a Political Economy of Urbanization. Edited by Helen Safa. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 1982, pp. 208-232. ISBN: 9780195613070.

Greenhouse, Steven. "Beating Wall St. and the Corner Grocery: Workers of All Incomes Find Powerful Ally in State Attorney General." The New York Times, January 2, 2004, Section A, p. 25.

Jain, Pankaj, and Mick Moore. "What Makes Micro-credit Programmes Effective? Fashionable Fallacies and Workable Realities." Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies, IDS Working Paper 177, November 2002.

Goetz, Anne Marie. "Local Heroes? How Field Workers Determine Policy Outcomes." In Women Development Workers: Implementing Rural Credit Programmes in Bangladesh. New Delhi, India: Sage Press, 2001. ISBN: 9789840516100.

Dugger, Celia. "Debate Stirs Over Tiny Loans for World's Poorest." The New York Times, April 29, 2004, Section 1, p. 1.

Armendáriz, Beatriz, and Jonathan Morduch. "Microfinance: Where Do We Stand?" In Financial Development and Economic Growth: Explaining the Links. Edited by Charles Goodhart. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ISBN: 9781403920669.

Morduch, Jonathan. "Microfinance Without Trade-Offs." Revised version of a keynote address delivered at the 3rd International Conference on Finance for Growth and Poverty Reduction, held at the University of Manchester, April 10, 2002. Draft dated August 26, 2002, sent by the author.

Justice, Judith. "The Invisible Health Worker: The Peon" and "Sources of Information." In Policies, Plans & People: Culture and Health Development in Nepal. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780520054240.

Tendler, Judith, and Sara Freedheim. "Trust in a Rent-seeking World: Health and Government Transformed in Northeast Brazil." World Development 22 (December 1994): 1771-1791.

Tendler, Judith. Inside Foreign Aid. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780801820168. Chapter 1, "Introduction"; chapter 2, "The Task and the Organizational Fit"; chapter 5, "The Abundance of Foreign Development," pp. 54-58, 71-72, rest optional; chapter 7, "The Organizational Economy of Large Projects"; chapter 8, "Conclusion," pp. 102-110, rest optional.

DiMaggio, Paul, and Walter Powell, editors. "The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organization Fields." In The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991, Chapter 3, pp. 63-82. ISBN: 9780226677095.

Meyer, John, and Brian Rowan. "Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony." In The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991, see especially pp. 54-62. ISBN: 9780226677095.

Ban, Carolyn, and Mark Huddleston. "Exporting Administrative Reform to Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Role of the Consultants in Technical Assistance." Paper prepared for Annual Meeting of the Association of Public Policy and Management, Washington, D.C., November 1999.

Haggblade, Steven, Peter Hazell, and Thomas Reardon. Transforming the Rural Nonfarm Economy: Opportunities and Threats in the Developing World. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Chapter 16, "Research Perspectives and Prospectives on the Rural Nonfarm Economy," including the table "Common myths about the rural nonfarm economy (RNFE)."

Haggblade, Steven, Peter Hazell, and Thomas Reardon. "The Rural Nonfarm Economy: Pathway Out of Poverty or Pathway In?" Paper presented at 2005 conference, "The Future of the Small Farm," drawn from the authors' book (2006), Transforming the Rural Nonfarm Economy. (PDF)^#

Ranis, Gustav, and Frances Stewart. "Rural Linkages in the Philippines and Taiwan." In Macro-policies for Appropriate Technology in Developing Countries. Edited by Frances Stewart. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987, pp. 140-191. ISBN: 9780813373034.

Biggs, Stephen. "Learning from the Positive to Reduce Rural Poverty: Institutional Innovations in Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Development." Paper prepared for the Impact Assessment Workshop organized by the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation (PRGA) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), October 19-21, 2005 at CIMMYT Headquarters, Mexico.

Rodrik, Dani. "Tensions between Trade and Domestic Social Arrangements" and "Implications." In Has Globalization Gone Too Far? Washington, DC: Institute of International Economics, 1997, pp. 29-48 (recommended: pp. 69-85), rest optional. ISBN: 9780881322415.

Bradsher, Keith. "Like Japan in the 1980's, China Poses Big Economic Challenge." The New York Times, March 2, 2004, Section C, p. 1.

Wood, Adrian. "Globalization and the Rise in Labor Market Inequalities." The Economic Journal 108 (1998): 1463-1482.

Jacoby, Sanford. "Risk and the Labor Market: Societal Past as Economic Prologue." In Sourcebook of Labor Markets: Evolving Structures and Processes. Edited by Ivar Berg and Arne Kalleberg. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum, 2001, pp. 31-60. ISBN: 9780306464539.

Damiani, Octavio. "Effects on Employment, Wages, and Labor Standards of Non-Traditional Export Crops in Northeast Brazil." Latin American Research Review 38 (2003): 83-112.

Beckman, Bjorn. "Trade Unions, Institutional Reform, and Democracy: Nigerian Experiences with South African and Ugandan Comparisons." Transition: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa no. 48 (2002). (A revised version published in Harris, John, Kristian Stokke, and Olle Tornquist, eds. Changing Continuities: The Local Politics of Democratisation in Developing Countries. London, UK: Palgrave, 2004.)

Gonzalez, David, and Samuel Loewenberg. "Banana Workers Get Day in Court." The New York Times, January 18, 2003, Section B, p. 1.

Greenhouse, Steven. "Local 226, 'The Culinary,' Makes Las Vegas the Land of the Living Wage." The New York Times, June 3, 2004, Section A, p. 22.

———. "Union Takes New Tack in Organizing Effort at Pork-Processing Plant." The New York Times, February 13, 2006, Section A, p. 16.

Locke, Richard. "Industrial Adjustment and Industrial Relations in the Automobile Industry." In Remaking the Italian Economy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997, pp. 103-134. ISBN: 9780801484216.

Murillo, Victoria, and Andrew Schrank. "With a Little Help from My Friends: Partisan Politics, Transnational Alliances, and Labor Rights in Latin America." Comparative Political Studies 38 (October 2005): 971-999.

Greenhouse, Steven. "Unions Plan Big Drive for Better Pay at Nonunion Wal-Mart." The New York Times, December 11, 2004.

Special session with Prof. Richard Locke, Sloan School of Management (Prof. Locke will not present the papers below, and the class will pose questions based on their reading):

Locke, Richard, Fei Quin, and Alberto Brause. "Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards? Lessons from Nike." Industrial Relations Research Review 61 (October 2007): 1-29.

Locke, Richard, and Monica Romis. "Improving Work Conditions in a Global Supply Chain." MIT Sloan Management Review 48 (Winter 2007): 54-62.

O'Rourke, Dara. "Monitoring the Monitors: A Critique of PricewaterhouseCooper's Labor Monitoring." White paper, September 28, 2000.

Greenhouse, Steven. "Nike Shoe Plant in Vietnam is Called Unsafe for Workers." The New York Times, November 8, 1997.

———. "M.I.T. Report Says Global Accounting Firm Overlooks Factory Abuses." The New York Times, September 28, 2000.

O'Rourke, Dara. "Multi-stakeholder Regulation: Privatizing or Socializing Global Labor Standards?" World Development 34 (2006): 899-918.

Foster, Lauren, and Alexandra Harney. "Why Ethical Sourcing Means Show and Tell." Financial Times, Comment and Analysis, April 22, 2005, p. 17.

Brown, Charles, James Hamilton, and James Medoff. "Images of Large and Small Employers," "The Economic Backdrop," "Generating New Jobs," "Wages: Bigger Means More," "Who Benefits?" and "A Fuller Picture." In Employers Large and Small. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780674251625. (Chapters 2-5 optional).

Tendler, Judith. "Small Firms, the Informal Sector, and the Devil's Deal." IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies at Sussex) 33 (July 2002).

Andrews, Edmund. "Where Do the Jobs Come From?" The New York Times, September 21, 2004, Section E, p. 1.

Criscuolo, Alberto. "Artisan Associations and Small Business Development in the 'Third' Italy." Master's Thesis, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002, pp. 3-4, 9-32, 112-134.

Berger, Suzanne. "The Uses of the Traditional Sector in Italy: Why Declining Classes Survive." In The Petite Bourgeoisie. Edited by Frank Bechafer and Brian Elliot. New York, NY: Saint Martin's Press, 1981, pp. 71-89. ISBN: 9780333350720.

Gibson, Edward. "The Populist Road to Market Reform: Policy and Electoral Coalitions in Mexico and Argentina." World Politics 49 (April 1997): 339-370.

Meyer-Stamer, Jörg. "Local Economic Development: What Makes It Difficult, What Makes It Work." In Asymmetries in Regional Integration and Local Development. Edited by Paolo Giordana, Francesco Lanzafame, and Jörg Meyer-Stamer. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 2005, pp. 215-250. ISBN: 9781597820042.

Nadvi, Khalid, and Gerhard Halder. "Local Clusters in Global Value Chains: Exploring Dynamic Linkages between Germany and Pakistan." Entrepreneurship & Regional Development 17 (2005): 339-363.

Levy, Brian. "Can Intervention Work? The Role of Government in SME Success/Successful Small and Medium Enterprises and their Support Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Four Country Studies." Policy Research Department, Finance and Private Sector Development Division, The World Bank, February 9, 1994.

Perez-Aleman, Paola. "Learning, Adjustment and Economic Development: Transforming Firms, the State, and Associations in Chile." World Development 28 (2000): 41-55.

Doeringer, Peter, and David Terkla. "Turning Around Local Economies: Managerial Strategies and Community Assets." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 9 (1990): 487-506.

Ortez, Omar. "Manufacturing Firms and Local Jobs: The Influence of Competitive Strategies on Labor in the Garment Sector of San Francisco El Alto, Guatemala." Master's Thesis, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001.

Hanson, Gordon. "Should Countries Promote Foreign Direct Investment?" G-24 Discussion Paper Series. UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), 2001.

Tewari, Meenu. "Industrial Upgrading and the 'Double-Binds' of FDI Policies: Illustrations from India's Automobile Industry." University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of City and Regional Planning, April 8, 2006.

Tendler, Judith. "The Economic Wars Between the States." Working Paper Series, MIT/BNB project (Banco do Nordeste – Northeast Brazilian Development Bank), 2000.