Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Küreselleşme ve Bölgesel Stratejiler
	English	Globalisation and Regional Strategies
Course Code	BPL 502E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Elvan Gülöksüz
Course Objectives		The aim of this course is to provide students with a framework on the real-life processes and theories of globalisation, regional development, and social and environmental sustainability while guiding their learning through reading landmark articles in the field and conducting research on a topic of their choice.
Course Description		This course examines the topics of globalisation, regional development, and social and environmental sustainability at the intersection of economics, economic geography, and political economy. The course is structured around three paradigms in these disciplines: neoclassical, neo-institutionalist, and Marxist. The historical scope of the course covers the period after 1971, and its geographical scope encompasses the entire world, primarily focusing on theories and data published in English. The first section examines the post-1971 period when neoclassical theory guided structural change; the second section examines the post-1997/2008 period when the neo-institutionalist theory addressed socio-economic and environmental crisis, and the third section examines the Marxist theory that offers an alternative approach. The course consists of lectures, article analyses, and student research guided by the instructor with the results discussed by the students.
Course Outcomes		Students who complete this course will be able to: Analyse and propose regional strategies and environmental and social sustainability policies, taking into account global socio-spatial transformations and utilising the tools provided by different perspectives Conduct social scientific research; write and present research papers
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities
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Textbook		Harvey D (2005) Chp 1 Freedom’s just another word. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford University Press, pp. 5-38. Stigler GJ (1971) The Theory of Economic Regulation. The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, 2(1), pp. 3-21. Redding SJ, Rossi-Hansberg E (2017) Quantitative spatial economics. Annual Review of Economics, 9: 21-58. Hardin G (1968) The tragedy of the commons. Science, Vol. 162, No. 3859, pp. 1243-1248. Coase RH (1960) The problem of social cost. Journal of Law and Economics, 3:1-44.
Other References		Storper M et al. (2015) Chp 3 The Motor of Divergence High-Wage or Low-Wage Specialization. In The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles. Palo Alto, United States: Stanford University Press, pp. 29-50. Laffont JJ (2008) Externalities. In: L Blume and Durlaufe S (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-4. Demsetz H (1996) The core disagreement between Pigou, the profession, and Coase in the analyses of the externality question. European Journal of Political Economy, 12(4): 565-579.

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