OVERVIEW

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

In this course, the long term European and international economic development is studied. The course traces the main transformations of the international economy, focusing on some significant issues, such as population, agriculture, international commerce, manufacturing and finance.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course focuses on the analysis of the evolution of the European and international economy in the long run. 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 and it provides the cultural and methodological basis to understand the current economic reality.  

Learning outcomes (details):

 - Knowledge and understanding skills: students should learn the main working mechanisms of economic systems in a comparative perspective

-  Learning and comprehension skills: students should be able to understand  the main issues about the  current economic framework as the result of its economic evolution 

- Making judgment: students should be able to use their knowledge in many different social and economic frameworks

- Communication skills: students should learn the right terminology of Economic History to correctly communicate both specialized and non-specialized  people

-Learning skills: students should be able to use rightly the main interpretative Economic History tools in many different frameworks

TEACHING METHODS

Face to face lectures

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

-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

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARINA ROMANI (President)

MARCO DORIA

LUISA PICCINNO

ANDREA ZANINI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

 February 18th, 2018 

Class schedule

ECONOMIC HISTORY D

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written test, with multiple choice and open-ended questions.

The test is the same for attending or non-attending students. However, attending students can choose to answer two question among four ones indicated by the lecturer or also answer one question among them indicated by the lecturer and answer the "dossier-option". Non-attending students must answer two questions indicated by the lecturer.

In summer and winter sessions, which include more than one economic history exam, students who have had an insufficient mark will not be able to take the exam immediately after the test they have failed

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The written test aims at verifying student's understanding of the topics developed in class, the student's ability to use the technical jargon of  Economic History and the degree of in-depth study of the main topics that the lecturer dealt with in class.

Exam schedule

FURTHER INFORMATION