Schedule (version Mar 31 2015)
Economics 274 Winter 2014 Schedule MWF 11:15 am – 12:10 pm … Huntley 324 MWF 2:30 pm – 3:25 pm … Huntley 324 |
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Week |
Date |
Topic |
Details, Reading Links |
Week I Introduction Geography History |
Mon 12 Jan |
Overview of Course |
Start reading Hessler! |
Wed 14 Jan |
China as Empire |
maps and history |
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Thur 15 Jan |
dinner with Dr. Fuchs at Canton |
seats limited, will repeat later in term |
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Fri 16 Jan |
Guest Speaker: Dr. Ron Fuchs |
classes meet in Reeves Center reading Brandt Ma Rawski §1-5.1 |
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Week II The PRC: initial images |
Mon 19 Jan MLK – ODK |
Prologamena to the People’s Republic: Chinese Economic History |
issues from Dr. Fuchs’ talk Ma Brandt Rawski history paper |
Wed 21 Jan |
Discussion of Hessler I Roads and Development |
short paper due assignment here Reading empiricals (I) pdf |
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Fri 23 Jan |
Discussion of Maoping video |
Watch Living on YouTube in 4×15 min pieces: I, II, III and IV |
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Week III Agriculture Growth & Agriculture |
Mon 26 Jan
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Li Book (I): Agriculture |
Ch 1 & 4 |
Wed 28 Jan |
Li (II): Incentives |
Ch 8 & 9 |
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Fri 30 Jan |
Li (III): Life Cycle & Risk |
continuation |
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Week IV Elasticities & the Future of Agriculture |
Mon 2 Feb |
discuss Li book |
Agriculture Paper Due |
Wed 4 Feb |
Elasticities & the Future of Agriculture |
chalk & talk |
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Fri 6 Feb |
Growth Models |
chalk & talk start reading Hessler II |
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Week V Industry |
Mon 9 Feb |
Hessler II discussion |
Read Hessler Part II!! |
Wed 11 Feb |
Two-Sector Models: Lewis |
lecture |
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Fri 13 Feb |
Formal models of planning |
Watch Heart of the Dragon “Working” (4 x 15 mins) |
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Week VI Industry: Wenzhou
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Mon 16 Feb |
class cancelled: out of town and weather |
Be reading Hessler (III)! |
Wed 18 Feb |
NO CLASS: out of town |
keep reading Hessler!! |
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Fri 20 Feb |
Bra Ring Manufacuturing: Informal Industry Informal Industry: Management and Finance |
Hessler (III) one-page Hessler memo due |
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Midterm Break Saturday 21 Feb – Sunday 1 Mar |
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Week VII Formal Industry |
Mon 2 Mar |
Formal Sector: JVs |
China’s auto industry |
Wed 4 Mar |
Productivity: Technology |
Nam, Tech Catch-up |
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Fri 6 Mar |
Productivity: Agglomeration |
Read Miller Chapters 1-2 |
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Week VIII Urban Models |
Mon 9 Mar |
Guest Speaker Leland Miller ’98 was CBD & urban structure |
Publisher, China Beige Book was Miller Ch 1-2 |
Wed 11 Mar |
Financing Urbanization |
Miller Ch 3-4 |
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Fri 13 Mar |
Science, Society & the Arts |
no classes |
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Week IX Migration |
Mon 16 Mar |
Models of Migration |
costs vs benefits |
Wed 18 Mar |
Reading Migration Papers Gustafsson & Sai (2014), “Why is there no income gap…” (Hui Migration) in China Quarterly 220: 968-987 and Migration Reading Guide. |
reading regression tables |
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Fri 20 Mar |
Migration (cont) |
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Week X |
Mon 23 Mar |
Discussion of your papers |
migration paper due |
Wed 25 Mar |
Imperial Legacies: China & NKorea |
Reilly China QuarterlyDecember 2014, 915-935. |
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Thu 26 Mar evening |
Guest Speaker: Amb. Yungwoo Chun |
retired National Security Advisor, South Korea 7 pm in Northern Auditorium? |
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Fri 27 Mar |
Discussion of International Issues |
one page memo due on Amb Chun’s talk |
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Week XI Macro Issues |
Mon 30 Mar |
Demographics: Why Have Children? (Fertility-Demographics – data & model (pdf)) |
(additional Slides on Chinese Demographics) Ma & Adams Chapter 3 |
Wed 1 Apr |
China’s Future: Growth Models Revisited |
Ma & Adams: Are There Game Stoppers? Chapter 1: H2O |
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Thu 2 Apr evening |
Prof Xu, Chinese Opera |
Wilson Hall, 8:00 pm sponsored by East Asian Studies and the Music Department |
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Fri 3 Apr |
An Aging Society: Welfare |
Ma & Adams Chapter 4 |
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Week XII China’s Economic Maturity: From Empire to Federal System? |
Mon 6 Apr |
Education: The Future Generation |
Ma & Adams Chapter 5 class notes (urban bias) |
Wed 8 Apr |
Macro Challenges: Housing & Monetary Policy |
Ma & Adams Chapter 6 |
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Fri 10 Apr |
China’s Policy Challenges Macro issues in a [large] developing economy |
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Final Exam
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Old: Will Update Selectively: China IMF Article IV (pdf) Retrospective China’s Future (pdf)