Assignment: Short essay
Instructions: Using two of the course readings listed below, you should write an essay with one of the following titles:
(a) ‘How and why one should reform the global economy'.
(b) ‘Globalization and the end of the nation-state'.
The text of essay (not including title page or bibliography) should be no more than 6 pages in length (double-spaced, Times New Roman, font size 12).
Two of the following course readings should be selected for this assignment:
1) Mosley, L. (2007). ‘The political economy of globalization', in D. Held and A. McGrew (eds.).Globalization Theory (Cambridge: Polity Press), pp. 106-125.
2) Stiglitz, J. (2006). Making Globalization Work (New York: Norton), pp. 74-81, pp. 103-117.
3) Chang, H.-J. (2003). ‘Kicking away the ladder: infant industry promotion in historical perspective',Oxford Development Studies 31 (1), pp. 21-32.
4) Klein, N. (2007). ‘Democracy born in chains: South Africa's constricted freedom', in idem. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Vintage), pp. 233-61.