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Geography of Economic Globalization - MZ340P45

Title:	Geography of Economic Globalization
Czech title:	Geografie ekonomické globalizace
Guaranteed by:	Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
Faculty:	Faculty of Science
Actual:	from 2015 to 2018
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	5
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	English
Note:	enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	prof. RNDr. Petr Pavlínek, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	prof. RNDr. Petr Pavlínek, Ph.D.

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Annotation

Last update: prof. RNDr. Petr Pavlínek, Ph.D. (15.02.2016)

A study of the geography of economic globalization and the geography of the world economy. The major topics include the historical development of the world economy and globalization from the geographical perspective, trends in geography of global production, trade and investment, the most important factors and actors in the globalization processes and its geographic effects, geography of transnational corporations, case studies of economic geography of selected industries and service activities, effects of globalization on the developed and developing countries.

Note: the entire course will be taught and conducted in English.

Literature

Last update: prof. RNDr. Petr Pavlínek, Ph.D. (16.02.2018)

REQUIRED MATERIALS

Dicken, P. (2015) Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy. Seventh Edition, New York and London: The Guilford Press.

All required readings will be available on Moodle:

22/2 Gereffi, G. (2005) The Global Economy: Organization, Governance, and Development, In: Smelser, N. J. and Swedborg, R. (eds) The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 160-82.

29/2 Dicken, P. (2015): Global Shift: Tangled webs: unravelling complexity in the global economy, pp. 49-73.

7/3 Kiely, R. (2005) Globalization and poverty, and the poverty of globalization theory. Current Sociology, November, 53(6): 895-914.

14/3 Dicken, P. (2015): Global Shift: Technological change: 'gales of creative destruction', pp. 74-113.

21/3 Dicken, P. (2015): Global Shift: 'Capturing value' within global production networks, pp. 251-278.

28/3 Ritzer, G. (2010) Neo-liberalism: Roots, Principles, Criticisms and Neo-Marxian Alternatives. In: G. Ritzer: Globalization: A Basic Text, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 109-138.

4/4 Sunley, P. (2011): The Consequences of Economic Globalization, In: The Sage Handbook of Economic Geography, pp. 102-118.

11/4 Dicken, P. (2015): Global Shift: ‘We are what we eat’: The agro-food industries, pp. 423-450.

18/4 Smith, A., Pickles, J, Buček, M., Pástor, R., Begg, B. (2014)The political economy of global production networks: regional industrial change and differential upgrading in the East European clothing industry. Journal of Economic Geography (2014) pp. 1-29, doi:10.1093/jeg/lbt039

25/4 Sturgeon, T. J., Van Biesebroeck, J., Gereffi, G. (2008) Value chains, networks and clusters: reframing the global automotive industry, Journal of Economic Geography 8, pp. 297-321.

2/5 Pavlínek, P. (2012) The Internationalization of Corporate R&D and the Automotive Industry R&D of East-Central Europe. Economic Geography 88(3): 279-310.

20/5 Dicken, P. (2015): Global Shift: Winning and losing: where you live really matters, 304-353.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: prof. RNDr. Petr Pavlínek, Ph.D. (16.02.2018)

REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING

Your final grade for this course will be based on your performance in final exam, reading summaries, and your class attendance and participation in class discussions.

READING SUMMARIES

· You will be required to submit a short (half-page single spaced) summary of the required readings in English once a week according to the schedule of readings below. The reading summary is due every Monday by 11:59 pm on Moodle (http://dl2.cuni.cz) starting on Monday, February 22.

· Format: Word (docx, doc, rtf) or PDF

· Each reading should be summarized to convince me that you have read it.

· Each article summary has to be followed by a question based on your reading of the article for the rest of the class. This question must be clearly stated at the end of each summary even on those weeks we will have no classes.

· At the end of each class or topic at least one or more students will be asked to read her/his question to be discussed/answered by the rest of the class.

· The schedule of reading summaries does not change even in cases when the lectures do not follow exactly the schedule below.

· The reading summaries will be graded and account for 18% of your final grade. Reading summaries will be graded as follows:

1. Summaries that are turned in on time and are satisfactory will receive 2 points.

2. Well-written and thoughtful summaries that stand out will receive 2.5 points.

3. Poorly written and questionable summaries that do not convince me 100% that you read all the assigned readings will receive 1 point.

4. The summaries that do not contain the question for the class will receive 1.5 points although they are otherwise satisfactory.

5. The summaries that cover only part of the readings will receive a proportional grade.

6. You will not receive any points if you turn in a summary from which it is obvious that you did not read the readings (usually too short, vague and poorly written summaries in the last minute before the deadline).

7. I will accept late summaries for up to two weeks after the due date but these will receive only 50% credit - 1 point if they are acceptable (including the question for the class).

8. Any points you receive beyond the maximum of 24 points for 12 summaries will count towards your final grade as extra credit.

CREDIT (zápočet)

The summer semester has 13 weeks. There are 12 reading summaries assigned. In order to pass the credit (zápočet) and be allowed to take the final exam, a student has to turn in at least 9 reading summaries and receive a minimum of 18 points for them. These points will be added to your final score, which will determine your final grade.

ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION

In order to encourage your class attendance, students will receive one bonus point for each attended class. Since our classes will be long, I will be giving out 1 point for the first half and another 1 point for the second half of the lecture every day we will have them. You can thus collect 16 points for class attendance. These points are very important and will be added to your final score.

FINAL EXAM

Students will be allowed to take the final exam only after collecting a minimum of 18 points for reading summaries.

The final exam will comprise of 100 multiple-choice questions. The exam will cover lecture material and text readings, so BOTH your attendance and outside preparation are necessary to do well. Each question will carry one point. There will be only one correct answer for each question.

FINAL GRADE

You can collect up to 124 points plus the bonus (100 for the final exam, 24 for reading summaries plus the bonus points for class attendance and excellent reading summaries)

Final grade scale:

Excellent 111 and more points (more than 90%)

Very good 99-110 points (80-89%)

Good 89-98 points (70-79%)

Failed Less than 88 points

Syllabus

Last update: prof. RNDr. Petr Pavlínek, Ph.D. (16.02.2018)

GEOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION

SUMMER SEMESTER 2016

Instructor: Prof. RNDr. Petr Pavlínek, Ph.D.

http://www.natur.cuni.cz/geografie/socialni-geografie-a-regionalni-rozvoj/pavlinek

Petr Pavlínek’s publications can be downloaded here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petr_Pavlinek

Office: Albertov 6, 303A (through 303)

Office Hours: By appointment during March 14 - March 25 and May 2 - May 13, otherwise, please e-mail me.

E-mail: pavlinek@natur.cuni.cz

Phone: 221951394

Because of unforeseen circumstances, the Geography of Economic Globalization will be taught and organized as follows during the Summer 2016 semester:

All lectures will take place during these four weeks:

· March 14 - March 25 (two weeks)

· May 2 - May 13 (two weeks)

During these four weeks, there will be two lectures per week that are scheduled as follows:

· Tuesday: 16:30 - 19:30 in VEZ (the Věž classroom)

· Wednesday: 16:30 - 20:25 in LR (the Levá rýsovna classroom)

We are still 3 hours of lecturing short according to this modified schedule of lectures compared to the regular semester. Please, expect that one or two topics might be covered in the form of voice over power point lecture slides that will be made available during the semester on SIS. If this is the case, I will provide details during the semester.

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

All required readings will be available on Moodle (http://dl2.cuni.cz).

Power point lecture slides will be available on Moodle. Password: globalization

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION:

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Global economy has been undergoing very profound changes since the late 1960s. These changes have been some of the fastest and most ferocious we have seen in modern times. This course examines some of the key themes of these changes commonly described as ‘economic globalization’ from the perspective of Economic Geography. It will focus on causes and consequences of ‘economic globalization’ as well as on its different manifestations in different parts of the world. The overarching aim of this course is to provide students with an understanding of contemporary changes, trends and processes affecting the global economy, countries, regions and industries. One of the most important goals is to develop a critical understanding of the ‘global economy’ from the interdisciplinary perspective - its origins and operation and the reasons for widespread economic inequalities between more and less developed countries.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. Define "economic globalization" from the perspective of different groups involved in debates about globalization.

2. Describe the historical development of the global economy using various theoretical perspectives from different disciplines.

3. Identify the most important trends in the contemporary global economy.

4. Identify and analyze the most important forces driving globalization (technological change, transnational corporations, and states).

5. Describe uneven effects of globalization in different parts of the world.

6. Understand the differences in international operations of different industries and economic sectors.