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
In this course, the long-term economic development is studied. The course traces the main transformations of the international economy starting from the industrial revolution; it focuses on some significant issues, such as population, agriculture, international commerce, manufacturing, and finance.
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
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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
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
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. Other teaching materials will be uploaded to AW /Bibliographic references are the same for attending and non-attending students
Ricevimento: MARINA ROMANI Office-hour will take place remotely. Students should make their appointment by e-mail (romani@economia.unige.it).
MARINA ROMANI (President)
Second semester
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
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
