This course aims at offering an overview of the economic growth and development from the Modern Age to the 21st century in a comparative perspective by focusing on the strategic factors responsible for modern growth.
The course provides a systematic-interpretative framework of the most important changes that have characterized the evolution of the structure of the global economic system starting from the Industrial Revolution.
face to face lectures
The preindustrial societies
-Population patterns
-The Industrial Revolution
- Development patterns: the Second Comers.
- From the first globalization to the second World War
-The modern economic development from 1945 to 1979
- The second globalization and its crises
For English textbooks and teaching material, Erasmus students please contact us by e-mail.
Specific readings will be provided by the instructor on the e-learning course (Aulaweb)
Ricevimento: MARINA ROMANI Room 1015 - First Floor -17 September- 18 December: Mondays 16-17 - Tuesdays 11.30 - 12.30 -From 18 February 2019 Wednesdays 12 to 14. Before coming, please contact me by e-mail: romani@economia.unige.it The office hour on November 5 and November 12 will be anticipated at 13.30-14.30
Ricevimento: Dipartimento di Economia - I floor - office n. 1020 Phone: (+39) 010209 - 5479 Email : piccinno@economia.unige.it monday h 10-12. (pleaase contact previously the Lecturer by e.mail) For any change see the web page of the course on Aulaweb
LUISA PICCINNO (President)
MARINA ROMANI (President)
The lessons will start on February 12th, 2019
ECONOMIC HISTORY
written examination, with multiple choice and open-ended questions
When the result of the test is below the pass mark students miss the exam session.
