International Development
International development is a multi-disciplinary study.
Description
Macroeconomists develop models to understand the mechanisms of market growth.
Comparative political scientists seek to explain why one country developed on a different trajectory than another.
Everyone and everything in between is welcome too. A real mess of a field.
Reading Notes
The Stages of Economic Growth, Walt W. Rostow, 1959
Countering Guerilla Attack, Walt W. Rostow, 1961
Foreign Assistance and Economic Development, Hollis B. Chenery and Alan M. Strout, 1966
Multilateral Negotiations for Rescheduling Developing Country Debt, Jeremy Bulow and Kenneth Rogoff, 1988
Is Fixed Investment the Key to Economic Growth?, Magnus Blomström, Robert E. Lipsey and Mario Zejan, 1996
Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen, 1999
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, William Easterly, 2002
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, 2012
Adverse selection and growth under IMF programs, Muhammet A. Bas and Randall W. Stone, 2013
The Nobel for Econsplaining, Brendan Greeley, 2024
Best Practices and Elite Belief: International Competition and State Modernization in Qing China and Meiji Japan, Alexandre Haym and Dylan Motin, 2025
Foreign Policy Failures and Global Attitudes Towards Great Powers: Evidence from the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan, Rachel Myrick and William Marble, 2026
International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience, Christina Cottiero and Christina J. Schneider, 2026