INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMIC HISTORY FOR FIRST-YEAR ECONOMICS GRADUATE STUDENTS
Class Topics:
Jan 20: Modes of Production
Jan 27: Malthus and the Demographic Transition
Feb 3: Industrious Revolutions
Feb 10: Trade, Law, and State
Feb 17: Industrial Revolutions
Feb 24: Globalizations
Mar 3: Differentiated and Uneven Development
Mar 10: Business Cycles
Mar 17: WWI and the Great Depression
Mar 31: WWII and the Thirty Glorious Years
Apr 7: The Great Divergence
Apr 14: The Forward March of Social Democracy Halted?
Apr 21: China Stands Up
Apr 28: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents
May 5: Conclusion