This course is a survey of modern and contemporary world Economic History. What students will learn during the course will be useful in order to undestand today's societies and economy, by placing these into their historical path, in a global and long run perspective.
Which economic process characterised the modern and contemporary age? What's the connection between industrialisation and economic development of the West? What's the relation between capitalism, globalisation and economic crises?
The course will try to answer to these and other questions by analysing the main matters of the modern and contemporary economic history. The aim of the course is to analyse the different aspects of the economic development since the late XVIII century to the beginning of the third millenium.
This course will deal with the following topics:
Productive and labour organisation
*the industrial revolutions in Europe
*industrialisation outside Europe
*business organisation and edevelopment
The connection between capitalism, crisis and economic policies
*the evolution of finance
*XX c. economic crisis and the war economy
*State intervention into national economies
New economies
*Europe: from post-war development to the crisis
*the Asiatic rise
*the boundaries of the economic development
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| L.F. Signorini, I. Visco | L'economia italiana | Il Mulino | 2002 | Solo per non frequentanti | |
| V. Zamagni | Perchè l'Europa ha cambiato il mondo.Una storia economica. | Il Mulino | 2015 | 9788815258618 | A esclusione dei capitoli 1 e 2 sia per frequentanti che non frequentanti. |
Attending students:
written exam: three open questions.
Not attending:
written exam: three open questions.
In order to pass the exam, all three answers need be sufficient: every answer can obtain a maximum of 10 points (with a minimum threshold of 6 points as pass mark).
