Economic History
Objectives
In using historical evidence, the purpose of this course is the understandingof the functioning of the markets in their intrinsic logic and their relationship with the state, at a global scale. (in course syllabus, Fall semester 202122)
General characterization
Code
1124
Credits
3.5
Responsible teacher
Maria Eugénia Mata
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
English
Prerequisites
n/a
Bibliography
Berend, Ivan, An economic history of twentieth-century Europe, Cambridge, CUP, 2006. Bordo, Michael; Taylor, Alan; Williamson, Jeffrey (eds.) Globalization in Historical Perspective, University Chicago Press, Chicago, London, 2003, 2005. Cameron, Rondo, A Concise Economic History of the World. Oxford, 1993. Clark, Gregory, Farewell to Alms; A Brief History of the World, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007. Floud, Rodrick; Johnson, Paul, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Vol II Economic Maturity, 1860-1939 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 2004, 2008. N14-006. Foreman-Peck, James, A history of the world economy, Brigton: Wheatsheaf Books, 1983; New York, London, Sidney, Tokio, Singapore: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995 (I, II, V, VI).Persson, Karl Gunnar, An Economic History of Europe, Knowledge, Institutions and Growth, 600 to the Present, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010. Sylla, Richard; Tilly, Richard; Tortella, Gbriel, The state, the financial system, and economic modernization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999. (For the current crisis, Krugman, Paul, The Return of Depression Economics, and the Crisis of 2008, N. York, WW Norton &Cº, 1999, 2009).
(in course syllabus, Fall semester 202122)
Teaching method
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Evaluation method
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Subject matter
Private initiative versus government role as regulator of economic activities; the growing weight of public expenditure in macroeconomic terms during the second-half of the nineteenth century; the war economies well portrayed by the two world wars.
The emergence of social policies and security systems; nationalizations and denationalizations; concerns regarding intervention for the design of economic growth policies; protectionism and the Great Depression.
The success of growth after the Second World War, and the increasingly frequent interventions for short-term anti-cyclical corrections; the difficulties from the last quarter of the twentieth century to now. (in course syllabus, Fall semester 202122)