Document Type
Undergraduate Syllabus
Date
Spring 2024
School
Diplomacy
Course Number
DIPL 4806/6806
Course Description
This seminar provides an overview of major approaches to the study of political economy in Latin America and the Caribbean, past and present development trends, and recent debates over economic policy. The course begins with classic questions of the mutual reciprocal relations between politics and economics before covering the major debates between structural and institutional approaches. It proceeds by examining the switch from import-substituting industrialization to export-led growth models in the 1980s and 1990s and the effects of and reactions to the rise of neoliberal economic policies and then the commodity boom, as well as race and racism in the Americas. The topics of the last five weeks, to be determined in consultation with students, will include a variety of current policy issues. Course readings balance theory and empirics, range across methodologies and academic disciplines, and (usually) provide contrasting normative perspectives.
Recommended Citation
Goldfrank, Benjamin PhD., "DIPL 4806/6806 Political Economy of Latin America and the Caribbean" (2024). Diplomacy Syllabi. 789.
https://scholarship.shu.edu/diplomacy-syllabi/789
