GY409 Half Unit Not available in 2011/12
Globalisation and Regional Development
This information is for the 2011/12 session.
Teacher responsible
Professor M Storper, STC. S408 Availability
Primarily for students taking MSc Local Economic Development, MSc City Design and Social Science, MSc Development Management, MSc Regional and Urban Planning Studies, MSc Environment and Development, MSc Human Geography and Urban Studies (Research), MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change and LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Urban Policy. Also available to other suitably qualified graduate students as permitted by the regulations for their degrees. Course content
The economic geography of globalization, and examination of some of the principal effects of globalization on economic development of cities, regions and nations.
Theories of regional economic development, location, and trade are applied to the contemporary process known as "globalization", and used to decipher this phenomenon and its effects on development, employment, and political institutions. A number of major issues for regional and industrial policy are considered, including trade, convergence/divergence, corporate power, knowledge and technology, governance, and inter-place competition. Teaching
Two lectures per week (respectively two hours and one and one-half hours) for ten weeks. Attendance is expected at all session. (GY407.1). Indicative reading
P Aghion & J G Williamson, Growth, Inequality and Globalization, Cambridge University Press, 1998; S Brakman, H Garretsen & C van Marrewijk, The New Introduction to Geographical Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2009; G Clark, M Gertler & M Feldman (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, 2000; C Crouch, P Le Galès, C Trigilia & H Voelzkow (Ed), Local Production Systems in Europe: Rise or Demise? Oxford University Press, 2001; J H Dunning (Ed), Regions, Globalization and the Knowledge-Based Economy, Oxford University Press, 2000; P Krugman & M Obstfeld, International Economics: Theory and Policy, Harper-Collins, 1991; A Scott (Ed), Global City Regions, Oxford University Press, 2000; M Storper, The Regional World: Territorial Development in a Global Economy, Guilford Press, 1997. A number of more specialised texts will be recommended at the beginning of the course.
Assessment
One unseen examination of two hours. ^
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