Discussion and Notes DVM
DVM1100 sections A & B
Canada and Challenges of International Development and Globalization
Fall 2014, Professor Mahmoud Masaeli
The first DGD
International Development: ideas, conceptions, definitions, and theories
General Issues covered in our classes:
1. Canada as an example of globalization and development
a. Have we resolved all problems? Argue
No because we still have poverty, inequality, racism, unemployment etc.
b. If we have been able to develop ourselves, whether the others can do as well.
Rostow says yes if you follow his ideas of the traditional society, the preconditions for take-off, the take-off, the drive to maturity and the age of mass-consumption
- Political, social and economic development all play a role
Neo-liberals say yes, if you let the market work
2) Modernizationists say yes if you have the right value system
3) Structuralist economists say yes but we can do even better
4) Institutionalists say it depends on your institutions (formal and informal rules by which we govern ourselves, freedom of expression, property rights etc.)
5) Marxists, feminists, and environmentalists say do you want to? Why mimic this system of domination and oppression?
6) Post-modernists say something incomprehensible about how modernity is such a drag and development is a myth
2. The idea of development
a. How could Protestantism prepare the way to developing of European societies?
Hard working people are blessed by God, and hard working people create better nations through hard work
Promoted individual freedom and that people must decided the repercussions of their lives themselves
b. What are the main ideas presented by Smith? What is the invisible hand metaphor?
Invisible hand is people's morality - no to intervention or monopoly
Similar to Locke's idea of social contract
c. Liberal view of development divided. A precise and ACCURATE understanding of each of the versions of liberalism and their proposals for
Canada and Challenges of International Development and Globalization
Fall 2014, Professor Mahmoud Masaeli
The first DGD
International Development: ideas, conceptions, definitions, and theories
General Issues covered in our classes:
1. Canada as an example of globalization and development
a. Have we resolved all problems? Argue
No because we still have poverty, inequality, racism, unemployment etc.
b. If we have been able to develop ourselves, whether the others can do as well.
Rostow says yes if you follow his ideas of the traditional society, the preconditions for take-off, the take-off, the drive to maturity and the age of mass-consumption
- Political, social and economic development all play a role
Neo-liberals say yes, if you let the market work
2) Modernizationists say yes if you have the right value system
3) Structuralist economists say yes but we can do even better
4) Institutionalists say it depends on your institutions (formal and informal rules by which we govern ourselves, freedom of expression, property rights etc.)
5) Marxists, feminists, and environmentalists say do you want to? Why mimic this system of domination and oppression?
6) Post-modernists say something incomprehensible about how modernity is such a drag and development is a myth
2. The idea of development
a. How could Protestantism prepare the way to developing of European societies?
Hard working people are blessed by God, and hard working people create better nations through hard work
Promoted individual freedom and that people must decided the repercussions of their lives themselves
b. What are the main ideas presented by Smith? What is the invisible hand metaphor?
Invisible hand is people's morality - no to intervention or monopoly
Similar to Locke's idea of social contract
c. Liberal view of development divided. A precise and ACCURATE understanding of each of the versions of liberalism and their proposals for