Comparative Economics - JEM167

• Title: Comparative Economics
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2016 to 2020
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: JEB103
• Additional information: http://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=453
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc.
• Teacher(s): doc. Ing. Tomáš Cahlík, CSc.
• Class: Courses not for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JEB103, JPM312
• Interchangeability : JPM312

Literature

Last update: Ing. Vilém Semerák, M.A., Ph.D. (15.02.2023)

Textbooks covering comparative economics more systematically:

J. Barkley Rosser & Marina v. Rosser: Comparative Economics in Transforming World Economy, second or third edition. MITPress.

Paul R. Gregory and Robert C. Stuart: Comparing Economic Systems in the Twenty-First Century. Cengage Learning, 2003

 

Books on selected economic models or countries (selected chapters will be used):

Peter A. Hall & David Soskice (eds.): Varieties of Capitalism. Oxford University Press, 2001. – selected chapters

Anders Aslund: Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptokracy. Yale University Press, 2019

Yuen Yuen Ang: China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. Cambridge University Press, 2020

Anders Aslund: How Capitalism Was Built. Cambridge University Press, 2^nd edition, 2012

Thomas Orlik: China: The Bubble that Never Pops. Oxford University Press. 2020

 

Papers:

Acemoğlu, D. and Robinson, J.A., 2008. Paths of economic and political development.

Becker, S.O., Mergele, L. and Woessmann, L., 2020. The separation and reunification of Germany: Rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 34(2), pp.143-71.

Berman, K.V. and Berman, M.D., 1989. An empirical test of the theory of the labor-managed firm. Journal of comparative economics, 13(2), pp.281-300.

Djankov, S., Glaeser, E., La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F. and Shleifer, A., 2003. The new comparative economics. Journal of comparative economics, 31(4), pp.595-619.

Dore, R., Lazonick, W. and O'sullivan, M., 1999. Varieties of capitalism in the twentieth century. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 15(4), pp.102-120.

Ericson, R.E., 1991. The classical Soviet-type economy: Nature of the system and implications for reform. Journal of Economic perspectives, 5(4), pp.11-27.

Estrin, S., 1991. Yugoslavia: The case of self-managing market socialism. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5(4), pp.187-194.

Estrin, S., Hanousek, J., Kočenda, E. and Svejnar, J., 2009. The effects of privatization and ownership in transition economies. Journal of Economic Literature, 47(3), pp.699-728.

Von Hagen, J., Strauch, R.R. and Wolff, G.B., 2001. East Germany: Transition with Unification, Experiments, and Experiences. MI Blejer and M. Škrebeditors, Transition: The first Decade), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, pp.87-120.

Hayek, F.A., 2009. The use of knowledge in society. In Knowledge management and organizational design (pp. 7-15). Routledge.

Huang, Y., 2011. Rethinking the Beijing consensus. Asia policy, (11), pp.1-26.

Kornai, J., Maskin, E. and Roland, G., 2003. Understanding the soft budget constraint. Journal of economic literature, 41(4), pp.1095-1136.

Li, X., Brødsgaard, K.E. and Jacobsen, M., 2010. Redefining Beijing consensus: ten economic principles. China economic journal, 2(3), pp.297-311.

Mlčoch, L., 2004. 1.3 The Reverse Control Pyramid of the Socialist Economy. This study was reviewed by: Doc. Milan Tuček, CSc., p.49.

Milhaupt, C.J. and Zheng, W., 2014. Beyond ownership: State capitalism and the Chinese firm. Geo. LJ, 103, p.665.

Olson, M., 2022. 2 Big Bills Left on the Sidewalk: Why Some Nations Are Rich, and Others Poor. In Making Poor Nations Rich (pp. 25-53). Stanford University Press.

Song, Y., 2014. What should economists know about the current Chinese hukou system?. China Economic Review, 29, pp.200-212.

Temin, P., 1991. Soviet and Nazi economic planning in the 1930s. Economic History Review, pp.573-593.

Treisman, D., 2010. " Loans for Shares" Revisited. Post-Soviet Affairs, 26(3), pp.207-227.

Mafianomics: How Did Mob Entrepreneurs Infiltrate and Dominate the Russian Economy?

Williamson, J., 2002. Speeches, testimony, papers did the Washington Consensus fail. Institute for International Economics.

 

The updated/corrected version of the reading list as well as additional materials are available on a special Moodle website (password will be provided during the first session).