Professor James Putzel and other International Development staff.

For MSc Environment and Development, MSc Global Politics, MSc Development Studies, MSc Development Studies (Research), MSc Development Management, MSc International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies, MPA International Development and MSc Political Economy of Late Development also for other students on request to the teachers.

The course integrates the concepts and perspectives of a range of disciplines to consider: major trends of development and change in modern history and interpretations of them in the social sciences; and the ways in which contemporary economic and social theory affect current thinking about development.

In more detail: concepts of 'development' and historical evolution of paradigms of development thinking and policy; role of states and markets in development/underdevelopment; colonial legacies and path dependencies; state resilience and fragility; and the political economy of growth, poverty and freedom.

20 hours of lectures and 15 hours of seminars in Michaelmas Term. There will also be visiting speaker lectures each Friday in Michaelmas Term (10 x 2 hours).

Students will write at least one essay (1,500-2,000 words) for presentation and evaluation in class.

The following are recommended basic readings for the course: A. Kohli, State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery (Cambridge, 2004). A Sen, Development as Freedom (Anchor, 1999). E. Reinert, How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor ( Constable, 2007, reprinted 2010). D. North, J.J.Wallis, B.R.Weingast: Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History, (Cambridge 2009). HJ Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Anthem, 2002). D Rodrik. One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth (Princeton University Press, 2008). ,

Two-hour examination (70%) and a 3, 000 word essay (30%).