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.
Main subject of the course is the European economic development within the framework of international relations from the late Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age, with an in-depth analysis of the last two centuries. Aim of the course will be understanding and the identifying the changing factors and their implication in social and economic history.
At the end of the course, students should be able to understand and to describe (using the economic microlanguage) the systematic and interpretative framework of the main transformations and the macroeconomic and geopolitical changes characterizing the evolution of the economic and social western system structure
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Face to face lectures onsite
Students who want to attend the lessons remotely must previously contact the lecturer by e-mail
Students who will follow the course remotely will be considered non attending students.
Students will be given online 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
9 ECTS MODULE - the Lectures will deal with:
-Italian-Jewish minority (Late Middle Ages - Early Modern age); Ancient Regime demography (MARINA ROMANI)
-an in-depth study of the development of business enterprises in the contemporary age is provided with a focus on Italy (LUISA PICCINNO)
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.
MARINA ROMANI'S LECTURES: other teaching materials will be uploaded to Aula web
References (9 ECTS course):
MARINA ROMANI'S LECTURES: M. Romani, Il governo della peste: medici, malati, religiosi, magistrature sanitarie (secc. XIV-XVI), in Archivio di Stato di Milano. Annuario 2015, pp. 62-77. The PDF will be uploaded to AW -R. Scuro, Gli ebrei nel contesto urbano fra integrazione nella comunità e relazioni coi governi. Complessità di un modello latino-mediterraneo: il caso dell’Italia settentrionale medievale, in Rostro Judios del Occidente Medieval, Governo di Navarra, Estella ,2018. The PDF will be uploaded to AW A lecturer's PDf will be uploaded to AW
LUISA PICCINNO'S LECTURES:
The lectures will concern the evolution of business forms in a historical perspective.
The supplementary references about this topic will be uploaded to AW Bibliographic references are the same for attending and non-attending students
Erasmus students have to contact the teachers by e-mail. Specific readings will be uploaded to Aulaweb
Ricevimento: The office-hour will take place remotely. Students must make their appointment by e-mail (romani@economia.unige.it).
Ricevimento: Dipartimento di Economia - I floor - office n. 1020 Phone: (+39) 010209 - 5479 Email : piccinno@economia.unige.it Please contact me by e.mail in order to plan a meeting in my office or on Teams platform For any change see the web page of the course on Aulaweb
MARINA ROMANI (President)
LUISA PICCINNO (President Substitute)
Classes start on February, 17
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.
In the second half of the course students can do teamworking activities
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
Team working will check student's critical and dialectical skills
