The Idea of Planning - CP112A

Department of City and Regional Planning

University of California, Berkeley

Course Description

Syllabus

Stephen Cohen

Study Questions

BRIE

City and Regional Planning

Contact

• Stephen Cohen
  
  
• Yasuyuki Motoyama
  
  

Syllabus

Part I **VOLUME 1**

Week 1, Jan. 18 th Introduction: Course Objectives, Themes and Readings

Week 2/3, Jan. 25 th, Feb. 1 st Japan as a System

• Chalmers Johnson, 1982, “A Japanese Model?” MITI and the Japanese Economic Miracle (Chpt 9).
• Michael Gerlach, 1989, “Keiretsu Organization in the Japanese Economy: Analysis and Trade Implications,” Politics and Productivity (Chapter 4).
• Steven K. Vogel, 1997, “Can Japan Disengage? Winners and Losers in Japan’s Political Economy, and the Ties that Bind Them.”
• Diana Helweg, “ Japan: A Rising Sun?” Foreign Affairs (July-August, 2000).
• Paul Krugman, 1999, “The Future that Didn’t Work: Japan in the 1990s,” from Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics.

Week 4, Feb. 8 th The Reorganization of Production

• James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, & Daniel Roos, 1990, The Machine that Changed the World, (pp. 21-137).
• Martin Kenney & Richard Florida, 1993, “Building a Just-In Time Complex: Automotive Parts Suppliers,” Beyond Mass Production (Chapter 5).
• New York Times, (06/16/00) “Efficiency of Wheels.”
• Financial Times, (05/05/05) “Makers of everything from cars to precision instruments are flourishing in high-wage Japan.”

Week 5, Feb. 15 th Japan as a Model of Late Development & Cross Border Production Networks

• Alice H. Amsden, 1989, Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization (Chapters 1,13).
• Robert Wade, 1990, Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization (pp. 5-51).
• Le Monde, “Networks of Companies: Electronics in Asia at the Plant Level” (translation for class)
• Robert Reich, 1991, The Work of Nations (Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10, 12)
• Stephen S. Cohen and Michael Borrus, 1998, “Networks of Companies in Asia.”
• Bennett Harrison, 1994, Lean and Mean, The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility (Chapter 6).

Week 6, Feb. 22 nd From Central Planning to the Market Economy: The Collapse of Russia

• Stephen S. Cohen and Andrew Schwartz, 1998, “Deeper into the Tunnel,” The Tunnel at the End of the Light (Chapter 1).
• Gary Fields, “ Paradise Lost: Rise and Demise of the Centrally Planned Economy.”
• The Economist (05/20/04) “Survey: Russia.”
• Financial Times, (08/18/03) “In 1998 Russia was nearly bankrupt.”
• Financial Times, (08/05/04) “Politics first: the Kremlin tightens its control.”

Week 7/8/9, Mar. 1 st, 8 th, 15 th From Central Planning to the Market Economy: The Ascendancy of China

• Barry Naughton, 1995, “Growing out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1979-1993”
• Stephen S. Cohen, “ China and Asia’s Meltdown”
• Financial Times (04/13/05), “ China has further to grow to catch up with the world”
• Financial Times (04/20/05), “ America’s deficits are more than just China’s problem”
• Financial Times (04/27/05), “Global imbalances will require global solutions”
• Financial Times (04/20/05), “Rise in renminbi would not harm US”
• BusinessWeek, 2005, “Too Much Money,” July 11.
• Economist, 2004, “The dragon and the eagle” A survey of the world economy, October 2
• OECD, 2005, “Economic Survey of China 2005”

Week 10, Mar. 22 nd Income Distribution

• Robert B. Reich, 1991, “Work of Nations” (Chapters 14, 17)
• Richard Freeman, 1997, “When Earnings Diverge: Causes, Consequences and Cures for the New Inequality in the U.S."
• Economic Policy Institute, The State of Working America, 2004-2005, p.1-17.
• New York Times (06/05/05), “Tax Lows help to Widen Gap at Very Top”
• New York Times (09/18/05), “Disaster Behind the Disaster: Poverty”

[Paper Due]

• Norma Evenson, 1979, Paris: a Century of Change, 1878-1978. Chapter 7
• Daniel Noin and Paul White, 1997, Paris. Chapter 2, 3 & 4
• Elisa Barbour, 2002, Metropolitan Growth Planning in California, 1900-2000, Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco.

[Additional material will be announced.]

Week 14, Apr. 19 th Old Economy, New Economy and the Difficulties of Economic Foresight

• Stephen S. Cohen, 1993, “Geo-Economics: Lessons from America’s Mistakes,” The New Global Economy in the Information Age (Chapter 4).
• Michael Porter, 1990, The Competitive Advantage of Nations, (pp. 69-73, 617-653, 673-682).
• Cohen et al., 2000, “Tools for Thought: What is New and Important about the E-conomy”
• Sophie Meunier, “The French Exception,” Foreign Affairs Volume 79 (4): 104-116 (July/Aug 2000)

Week 15, Apr. 26 th Off-Shoring of White Collar Jobs

• Readings TO BE DISTRIBUTED.

Week 16, May 3 rd Wrap up: Summary of Course Themes