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Course: 2024/2025

Economic History
(13738)
Bachelor in Finance and Accounting (Study Plan 2018) (Plan: 399 - Estudio: 201)


Coordinating teacher: MARTINELLI LASHERAS, PABLO

Department assigned to the subject: Social Sciences Department

Type: Basic Core
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 1º
Semester: 2º

Branch of knowledge: Social Sciences and Law


Objectives
Course contents: . A first approximation to the evolution of living standards over the last 2,000 years. . The causes and consequences of industrialization in the West. . The determinants of catch-up and convergence or their absence in various parts of the world in different time periods. . The evolution of the international economy from the early modern period to the present. . The role of institutions in the process of development. Skills and competences: . Development of individual learning routines via the analysis of relevant texts in economic history and the collection and analysis of historical evidence. . Development of group-based learning routines via group-based discussion and the oral and written presentation of work by teams. . Development of verbal and written communication skills. . Develop the ability to raise questions and answer them using economic analysis.
Skills and learning outcomes
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Description of contents: programme
1. Modern economic growth. 2. Population and natural resources. 3. Markets and institutions. 4. Technological change and economic growth.. 5. The modern firm. 6. Globalization. 7. The modern state and economic growth.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Allen, Robert C.. Global Economic History: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2011
  • Cameron, Rondo and Neal, Larry . A Concise Economic History of the World. From Paleolithic Times to the Present. . Oxford: Oxford University Press.. 2003
  • Eichengreen, Barry. Globalizing capital. A history of the international monetary system. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1996
  • Eichengreen, Barry. The European economy since 1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2007
  • Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin. How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. Polity. 2022
  • Persson, Karl Gunnar. An Economic History of Europe. Knowledge, Institutions and Growth, 600 to the Present. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2010
Additional Bibliography
  • Acemoglu, D. and Robinson, J. . Why Nations Fail. The origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Business. 2012
  • Aldcroft, Derek H. . The European economy, 1914-2000. London and NY: Routledge. 2001
  • Allen, Robert C.. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. Cambrige: Cambridge University Press. 2009
  • Baldwin, Richard. The Great Convergence. Information Technology and the New Globalization. Harvard University Press. 2016
  • Broadberry, S, and O¿Rourke Kevin H.. Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2010
  • Chandler, Alfred D. . Scale and Scope. The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1990
  • Clark, G. . A Farewell to Alms. Princeton: Princeton University Press.. 2007
  • Daron Acemolgu and Simon Johnson. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. Basic Books. 2022
  • Eichengreen, Barry . Globalizing capital. A history of the international monetary system. Princeton: Princeton University Press.. 1996
  • Eichengreen, Barry . The European economy since 1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2007
  • Epstein, S. R. . Freedom and Growth. The rise of states and markets in Europe, 1300-1750. London and New York: Routledge. 2000
  • Findlay, R. and O¿Rourke, K.H.. Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2007
  • J. Bradford DeLong. Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century. Basic Civitas Books. 2022
  • Jeffrey A. Frieden. Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century . Norton. 2006
  • Koyama, M., and Rubin, J. . How the World Became Rich. The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. Polity Press. 2022
  • Lindert, P. H. . Growing public: social spending and economic growth since the eighteenth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994
  • Livi-Bacci, Massimo . A Concise History of World Population. Oxford: Blackwell. 1992
  • Maddison, Angus . Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1991
  • Maddison, Angus . The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. Paris: OECD. 2001
  • Milanovic, B. . Worlds apart. Measuring International and Global Inequality. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2005
  • Mokyr, Joel . The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990
  • Mokyr, Joel . The British Industrial Revolution. An Economic Perspective. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 1990
  • North, Douglass C. and Thomas, Robert P.. The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History. UK: Cambridge University Press. 1989
  • O'Rourke, Kevin and Williamson, Jeffrey G. . Globalization and History: the Evolution of the 19th Century Economy. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 1999
  • Sachs, Jeffrey D. . The End of Poverty. Economic Possibilities for Our Time. New York: Penguin Books. 2006
  • Temin, P. . Lessons from the Great Depression. Massachusetts: MIT Press. 1989

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.