Important dates

First progress report on paper due: October 16 by 5 pm.  Submission via bspace

Midterm exam: October 18

Second progress report on paper due:  November 15

Deadline for submission of video presentations: November 16

Final paper due: December 6

Final exam : Saturday December 15, 5 - 8 pm 141 Giannini

 

 

 

 

Schedule of required readings

The list in this box shows the required readings.  Most readings are online, available in box below.  That box also contains additional, optional readings.  The "topic #" tells you the relation between readings on this list and the links in the next box. 

The readings that are not online are contained in the following two books (available in stores):

Eric Nuemeyer "Greening Trade and Investment", Earthscan Publications

Scott Barrett "Environment and Statecraft" Oxford University Press

Week 1 ending 8/31  Topic 1 (overview)  Millennium Assessment (online) pp 1 -40

Week 2 ending 9/7 Topic 2  (reasons for disagreement; globalization and inequality) Kanbur, Aissbett (all nonline)

Week 3 ending 9/14 Topic 3 (agriculture) The Wise paper and the three IATP briefings (all online)

Week 4 ending 9/21 (Topic 3  continued) read " Biofuel debate" (online).  (Use this week to catch up on previous reading and get started with paper.)

Week 5 ending 9/28 Topic 4 (Climate change)  Chapter 15 of Barrett (text); Stern Review and papers by Arrow and Schelling (online)

Week 6 ending 10/5  Topic 4 continued. Climate change policy.  Karp's "Update" article. Catch up on readings. Progress report on paper due the week after next.

Week 7 ending 10/12 Topic 5 (International institutions) UN Handbook (online) pp 1 - 11 and 21 - 34, Neumeyer (text) pp 3 - 33. 

Week 8 ending 10/19  (October 16 Progress Report due; October 18, midterm exam)  Topic 6  (The Link between trade, the environment, and policy)  Neumeyer (text), Chapter 7; UN Handbook Chapter 4; .and pages 41 -- 57 of Chapter 5 (online).

Week 9 ending 10/26  Read online lecture notes on Coase Theorem and on incidence of tax.  Catch up reading, work on second progress report (due November 15).

Week 10 ending 11/2 Topic 7 (Foreign investment and the environment) Nuemeyer (text) Pages 33 - 38 of Chapter 2; Chapters 3 and 4
Copeland and Taylor (online) section 3.4 (pages 34 - 54)  Read online lecture notes "Ricardian" and "Theory of the Second Best"

Week 11 ending 11/9 "Topic 8 (Trade and environment disputes) Neumeyer (text) Chapter 8 and Vogel (online)

Week 12 ending 11/16 Bonus topic" Fair trade.  All readings in the Fair trade box below

Week 13 ending 11/23  Topic 9 (The environment and "investor-to-state" dispute settlement mechanism) Neumeyer (text) Chapter 5 and "Private rights, Public problems" (online)  pp 1 - 62

Week 14 ending 11/30  Topic 10 (The problem of international cooperation) Barrett (text) chapters 1 - 4

Week 15 ending 12/7  Topic 11 (The theory of international cooperation) Barrett (text) chapters 5 - 6, Dixit and Olson (online) introduction and conclusion

 

(Skip this? Topic 12 (The "resource curse") Ross and Bulte et al (online)

Lecture notes and slides

MA Assessment Slides (Topic 1)                                            Lecture slides (topic 2) ; (extra)  Notes on "Gains from Trade"                        Lecture slides topic 3 (ag)

Lecture slides (topic 4) Climate change;  Topic 4 continued: Climate change policy                                Lecture Slides Topic 5     Lecture Slides Topic 6   

Notes: Coase Theorem   Notes: The incidence of a tax                                 Lecture slides topic 7  Notes: Ricardian model   Notes: Theory of the Second Best

Lecture slides on Pollution Haven Hypothesis    Lecture slides on empirics and PHH               

Lecture notes( topic 9) International investment treaties                 Lecture notes on Chapter 11 of NAFTA                     Lecture notes on Fair Trade