Transcript Class 1 Lecture notes (if any) - to be posted after class

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT &
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
(Course number INAF 100-14)
Classroom location: Intercultural Center (ICC) 214
Class day & time: Tuesday, 10:15am-12:05pm
Instructor: James Raymond Vreeland, Professor 2.0
WE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN!
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Honor
• Complete the tutorial
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Welcome to the Georgetown
School of Foreign Service!
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Expectations?
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My expectations
• Standards of Excellence
• Attendance, punctuality, preparation,
participation, thoughtfulness, intellectual
curiosity, …
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Why are you in college?
• Developing human capacities
– Imagination
– Reason
– Language
– Introspection
– Morality/Ethics
– Aesthetics
– Sociability
– Physicality
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Imagination
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Creative thinking
Invention
Synthesis
Past (history)—Future (forecasting)
Scientific insight
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Reason
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Problem-solving
Critical thinking
Logic/argumentation
Calculation/computation
Empiricism
Analysis
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Language
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Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Using metaphor
Using rhetoric
Using 2nd, 3rd languages?
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Introspection
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Self-awareness
Escaping ego
Gaining self-respect
Seeing differences/commonalities
Becoming thoughtful
Acquiring virtues
Exercising free will
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Morality/Ethics
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Moral deliberation
Recognizing moral issues
Acting on principle
Guides of conduct
Distinguishing among intellectual, social
and moral virtues
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Aesthetics
• Observing closely
• Seeing relationships (form, pattern,
harmony etc.)
• Pleasure in beauty
• Love of knowledge
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Sociability
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Developing empathy
Valuing diversity
Learning cooperation
Knowing expectations
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Physicality
• Refining the use of senses
• Maintaining health, strength, alertness and
stamina
• Understanding the relationship between
mind and body
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This particular class is about
research
• We can think about research as an
ongoing global conversation
• Be sure to take the
– tutorial on scholarly research and
academic integrity
• Be sure to familiarize yourself with
Georgetown’s honor system
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Goals: Skills
• Learn the pain of writing
• Develop a research proposal
• Presentation skills
– with time constraints
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Goals: Substance
• ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
• Syllabus
– Use it every time you study
– http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jrv24/INAF_100-14.html
• Why are we looking at projects that I have been involved with?
– Intimate understanding of a research project
– A “tell all” class
– How an idea becomes a paper, becomes an article, becomes a book…
• Note that everything in your textbooks starts out as
just an idea, then a paper…
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Activity
• Create a structure that will support the ball
• Materials:
– Straws
– Pins
• 20 minutes
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Activity lessons
• Start with a theory
– Collaboration!
– We must be comfortable sharing our ideas with each other –
healthy debate & critiques are encouraged
– Question EVERYTHING…
• Test the theory
– There is no proof (or disproof) – only corroborating & refuting
evidence
• Compete with other theories… & repeat 
• The ongoing global conversation continues…
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For next week:
• You must read:
– Vreeland, James Raymond. 2003. The IMF
and Economic Development. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
CHAPTER 1
– Be prepared to discuss the chapter in a group
setting
• Come to class with a list of potential
research questions for your project
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All research begins with a question
• Curiosity about the political & economic
world around you is the main prerequisite
for this class
• Think critically & ask questions
• And during class, always remember:
– Those who ask questions are fools for five
minutes; those who do not ask questions
remain fools forever.
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Thank you
WE ARE GLOBAL GEORGETOWN!
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