Assignment for Today: Read Coe Chapter 7 and come to class with a basic understanding of the following concepts and ideas: ultra globalist position, functions of the state, ultimate guarantor, regulator of economic activities, architect of the national economy, owner of public enterprises, provider of public goods and services.  Types of states, neoliberal states, welfare states, developmental states, transitional states, failed states, rescaling of economic governance, international organizations, macro-regional groupings, privatization.

Globalization and the End of the State?

• ultra-globalist position

Types of States

State Reconfiguration and Re-scaling

Limits to State Control of the Economy

Assignment for Next Time: Research Proposal Due (see syllabus) and Read Robbins Chapter 9 and come to class with a basic understanding of: the link between industrialization and increased CO₂ in the atmosphere, difficulty of capturing carbon, disconnect between sources of carbon and impacts, carbon sequestration, greenhouse effect, climate change. Be familiar with institutional, market-based, and political economy approaches to CO₂.