OVERVIEW

The course will focus on some of the biggest global geopolitical issues,  crises and macroeconomic imbalancements trying to analyze them in the light of some of the most important economic theories

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The couse will focus - sinthetically way- on the institutional premises and macro and microeconomic  factors that led to the Industrial Revolution and to the birth of the modern world   starting from some economic key-concepts  which will be developed  through specific country case-studies.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course perspective will be the European economic development within the framework of international relations from the late Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age. The  goal of the course  should  be the understanding and the identification of the changing factors and their implication in social and economic history

PREREQUISITES

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TEACHING METHODS

Students  will be given nline tests to check  the progress of their  background. The lecturer will stimulate the discussion about some of the most important topics taught 

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Preindustrial societies (key-concepts)
-Population patterns
-Credit and money from the Ancient Regime to the Contemporary Age
-The Industrial Revolution
-Development  patterns: the First Comers
-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

Bibliografia (insegnamento da 6 cfu)/references (6 ECTS course)
Ennio De Simone, Storia economica. Dalla rivoluzione industriale alla rivoluzione informatica, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2014, pp. 3-203 e 220-316.
LEZIONI  DI MARINA ROMANI/MARINA ROMANI'S LECTURES Altro materiale sarà pubblicato su Aulaweb/Other teaching materials will be uploaded to Aula web
Bibliografia (insegnamento da 9 cfu)/References (9 ECTS course) Ennio De Simone, Storia economica. Dalla rivoluzione industriale alla rivoluzione informatica, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2014, pp.  3-203 e 220-316.
 LEZIONI  DI MARINA ROMANI/MARINA ROMANI'S LECTURES:
-K. Pallaver, il PDF  verrà caricato su AW/The PDF will be uploaded to Aulaweb
-R. Scuro,  il PDF verrà caricato su AW/The PDF will be uploaded to  Aulaweb
Altro materiale sarà pubblicato su Aulaweb/Other teaching materials will be uploaded to AW
-LEZIONI DI LUISA PICCINNO/LUISA PICCINNO'S LECTURES: 
verrà trattato il tema “ L'evoluzione delle forme di impresa nel lungo periodo (secoli XVI-XX)”. Il materiale integrativo sarà caricato su Aulaweb/ The lectures will concern the evolution of business forms in a historical perspective.The supplementary references about this topic will be uploaded to AW
La bibliografia è la stessa per gli studenti frequentanti e non frequentanti /Bibliographic references are the same for attending and non-attending  students

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARINA ROMANI (President)

MARCO DORIA

LUISA PICCINNO

ANDREA ZANINI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

February 2023

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written test  (multiple choice and open-ended questions). Two separate question-sheets will be prepared and corrected by each professor. Attending students can take two intermediate tests.
Erasmus students have to contact the teachers  by e-mail. Specific readings will be  uploaded to Aulaweb

ASSESSMENT METHODS

 Multiple choice questions  will check  technicalities and specific contents/Open questions will check students' critical skills and  their ability to  elaborate  logically the topics   taught  in the course

Exam schedule