COURSE SCHEDULE

ECON 311 (Pacific Rim Economies)

Fall 2016 (WEB)

Before asking any questions, please read the Syllabus, Course Schedule, and Policy Analysis
Exercise instructions thoroughly. You will find that most of your questions will be answered in
these documents.
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The Discussion Board will be locked on Sundays at 9 p.m. Check the Grades
folder on the course homepage for your assigned week as discussion leader. Do not
miss your turn as discussion leader, otherwise you will miss the opportunity to earn
the associated discussion points. Your discussion contributions for each weeks
topics should be posted on the Discussion Board within the dates specified in
this Course Schedule (see below). Please see your syllabus for Discussion Board
instructions.
Malixi Text refers to your textbook, Growth and Crises in the Asian Pacific Rim
The Notes and Readings, Videos and Slides can be accessed in the Modules folders.
Alternatively, you can access each module by clicking the tabs on the left-hand side
of the course homepage.
All Supplemental Readings can be found in the folder entitled, Readings
on the course homepage.
All Videos can be found in the folder entitled, Videos on the course
homepage. Please download the relevant software needed to view the videos.

DATE(S)

TOPICS

Week #1 (M, 8/22 to Su 8/28):

8/22 8/28

8/22 8/28

ASSIGNED READINGS

Module 1

Topics and Course Materials

Introduction to the Pacific Rim
Growth and Crises in the Asian Pacific Rim
Countries of the APR
Economic Indicators of Growth
Creating Economic Miracles

Supplemental Reading #54

Malixi Text, Ch. 1
Malixi Slides ## 2-13
Malixi Slides ## 14-17
Malixi Slides ##18-28

Participate in discussions.

Discussion Board

Watch videos: Japan: Lifetime Employment

Japan: Career Escalator

Videos

DATE(S)

TOPICS

Week #2 (M, 8/29 to Su, 9/4):

8/29 9/4

Module 2

Topics and Course Materials

Asias Role in the World Economy
Building an APR Development Model
Japan: Country Report
The Culturalist vs. the Institutionalist
or Structuralist Approach
The Dream Out of Reach for Japanese
Disparties in Wealth

8/29 9/4

Discussion Board

Watch videos: The Japanese Economic Miracle

Japan 2000: Changing Lifestyles

Videos

Module 3

Topics and Course Materials:

Japans Dominance and Leadership in the
Region

9/5 9/11

Supplemental Reading #1
Malixi Slides ## 29-35
Supplemental Reading #55
Malixi Slides ## 36-39;
Malixi Text, Ch. 3
Supplemental Reading #2
Supplemental Reading #3

Participate in discussions.

Week #3 (M, 9/5 to Su, 9/11):

9/5 9/11

ASSIGNED READINGS

The Worlds Biggest Boom

The Rise of Japan: Prisoners of Prosperity
Japan: Slow Moving Economic Avalanche

Malixi Text, Ch. 2;

Malixi Slides ## 40-47
Malixi Slides ## 48 66.
Supplemental Reading #4
Supplemental Reading #5
Supplemental Reading #6

Participate in discussions.

Discussion Board

Watch video: Japan 2000: Hi-Tech Road

Videos

DATE(S)

TOPICS

ASSIGNED READINGS

Week #4 (M, 9/12 to Su, 9/18): Module 4

9/12 9/18

9/12 9/18

Topics and Course Materials:

Revisiting the Japanese Economic Model
The Japanese Economic Bubble and How
it Burst
Stagnation and Reform

Malixi Text, Ch. 4

Malixi Text, Ch. 5
Malixi Slides ## 67-74
Malixi Text, Ch. 6

Participate in discussions

Discussion Board

Watch video: The Japanese Economic Bubble

Videos

Week #5 (M, 9/19 Su, 9/25): Module 5

9/19 9/25

9/19 9/25

Topics and Course Materials

Japans Back
Japan: A Rising Sun
Overcoming Japans China Syndrome
Japan: Deregulation and Competition
Japan: Beyond the Bubble
Japan: Business and Political Restructuring
Trends and Opportunities in Japans Market
Japans Path to Growth

Malixi Text, Ch. 7

Supplemental Reading #8
Supplemental Reading #9
Malixi Text, Ch. 8
Supplemental Reading #47
Malixi Text, Ch. 9
Supplemental Reading #52
Supplemental Reading #70

Participate in discussions.
Watch videos: Japan and China
The Future of Japan

Discussion Board
Videos

DATE(S)

TOPICS

ASSIGNED READINGS

Week #6 (M, 9/26 Su, 10/2): Module 6

9/26 10/2

Topics and Course Materials

9/26 10/2

The Roots of the Crisis

Anatomy of a Crisis: Causes and
Consequences of the Asian Financial Crisis
Surviving the Crisis, Reviving the Miracle
Asian Values and the Asian Crisis
The End of a Miracle
Participate in discussions
Watch video:

Asian Values Devalued

Malixi Text, Ch. 12

Malixi Slides ## 75 90
Malixi Slides ## 91 95
Malixi Text, Ch. 13
Supplemental Reading #11
Discussion Board
Videos

Week #7 (M, 10/3 Su, 10/9): Module 7

10/3 10/9

10/3 10/9

Topics and Course Materials

Out of the Ashes? Southeast Asias Struggle...
Financial Development, Crisis, and Reforms
Post-Crisis Asia

Supplemental Reading #12

Supplemental Reading #72
Malixi Text, Ch. 16

Participate in discussions

Discussion Board

Week #8 (M, 10/10 Su, 10/16): Modules 1-7 Recap and Review; Exam 1
F, 10/14

Exam 1 (7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m., online)

Modules 1-7

DATE(S)

TOPICS

ASSIGNED READINGS

Week #9 (M, 10/17 Su, 10/23): Module 8

10/17 10/23

10/17 10/23

Topics and Course Materials

The New Asian Capitalists
The Taiwanese Development Model
Taiwan Country Report
Jostling for Control of the Island
Taiwan: Can It Remain Free?
A Change of Face: A Survey of Taiwan
Taiwan and China
Taiwans Liberation of China
Cultural Revolution

Malixi Text, Ch. 10

Malixi Slides ## 97 117
Supplemental Reading #56
Supplemental Reading #13
Supplemental Reading #14
Supplemental Reading #15
Supplemental Reading #39
Supplemental Reading #57
Supplemental Reading #58

Participate in discussions.

Discussion Board

Watch video:

Videos

Taiwan

Week #10 (M, 10/24 Su, 10/30): Module 9

10/24 - 10/30

#16
10/24 10/30

Topics and Course Materials

Explaining Asian Business Success
South Korea Country Report
The Korean Economic Model
South Korea
The Koreas: In Search for Reunification
Future of Korea

Malixi Text, Ch. 11

Supplemental Reading #59
Malixi Slides ## 118 - 138
Supplemental Reading
Supplemental Reading #18
Supplemental Reading #19

Participate in discussions

Discussion Board

Watch video:

Videos

South Korea

DATE(S)

TOPICS

ASSIGNED READINGS

Week # 11 (M, 10/31 Su, 11/6): Module 10

10/31 11/6

10/31 11/6

Topics and Course Materials

Common Factors in Asian Growth and
Development
Singapore Country Report
Is Singapore a Model for the West?
The Models of Singapore and Hong Kong

Supplemental Reading #60

Supplemental Reading #20
Malixi Slides ## 139 165

Participate in discussions.

Discussion Board

Watch video:

Videos

Singapore

Supplemental Reading #71

Week #12 (M, 11/7 Su, 11/13): Module 11

11/7 11/13

11/7 11/13

Topics and Course Materials

Hong Kong Country Report
Hong Kong: Still One Country Two Systems
Hong Kongs Make-Believe Election

Supplemental Reading #61

Supplemental Reading #21
Supplemental Reading #62

Participate in discussions.

Discussion Board

Watch video:

Videos

Hong Kong

Week #13 (M, 11/14 Su, 11/20): Module 12

11/14 11/20

Topics and Course Materials

China Country Report
The Era of Market Socialism
Chinese Capitalism Since 1996
The China Model
Chinas Rebalancing Act
Chinas Fiscal Stimulus
China: Like No Other
Inside the New China
Manufaketure

Supplemental Reading #63

Malixi Text, Ch. 17
Malixi Text, Ch 18
Malixi Text, Ch. 19
Malixi Text, Ch. 20
Supplemental Reading #48
Supplemental Reading #26
Supplemental Reading #27
Supplemental Reading #28

DATE(S)
11/14 11/20

11/14 11/20

TOPICS

ASSIGNED READINGS

China Rising: How the Asian Colussus Is

Changing Our World
Tiananmen: Victory of Capitalism
Chinas Housing Market
A Country on the Move: China Urbanizes
Chinas Economy: A great migration...
Chinas Flagging Economy
How China Sees the World
China and the West

Supplemental Reading #29

Participate in discussions.
Watch videos:

Supplemental Reading #40

Supplemental Reading #42
Supplemental Reading #64
Supplemental Reading #43
Supplemental Reading #44
Supplemental Reading #45
Supplemental Reading #46
Discussion Board

China Boom
Videos
China 2010
China and the U.S. Recession

Week #14 (M, 11/21 11/27): Module 13

11/21 11/27

11/21 11/27

Topics and Course Materials

Transferability of the APR Models
Thailand and the Philippines
Inside the Hermit Kingdom
Asia Democracy Backlash
Country Focus: ASEAN-4
Hanoi Goes to Market
Remodeling an Asian Democracy
Vietnams Return to Capitalism
Living with the Colossus
Indonesia: Starting Over
Thailand: A New Order
A New Strategy on Myanmar

Malixi Slides ## 166 172

Supplemental Reading #65
Supplemental Reading #66
Supplemental Reading #67
Supplemental Reading #31
Supplemental Reading #32
Supplemental Reading #33
Supplemental Reading #34
Supplemental Reading #35
Supplemental Reading #36
Supplemental Reading #37
Supplemental Reading #68

Participate in Discussions

Discussion Board

Watch video: The Miracle of East Asia

Videos

DATE(S)

TOPICS

ASSIGNED READINGS

Week #15 (M, 11/28 Su, 12/4): Module 14, Review and Exam 2
F, 12/2

(7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m., online)

11/28 12/4

Topics and Course Materials

11/28 12/4

Modules 8 - 14

Findings and Bottom Lines

Creating a Globally Connected Asian...

Malixi Text, Ch. 21

Supplemental Reading #38

Asias Economies: Here We Go Again

Asias Suffering
Americas Place in the Asian Century

Supplemental Reading #49

Supplemental Reading #50
Supplemental Reading #69

Participate in discussions.

Discussion Board

Week #16 (M, 12/5 T, 12/6): Policy Analysis Paper

T, 12/6, 9:00 p.m.

Due date for Policy Analysis Paper

Upload to the
Submissions folder