60 hours (compulsory for all BA courses)

First lesson 2nd March 2015.

The main aim of the course is to focus on the process of economic growth and development since the First Industrial Revolution until the present time. The course surveys the economic history of the World and its main purpose is to show how a long run perspective could be very useful to a better understanding of actual economic problems. The approach used try to merge economic theory of growth with recent research in long run trends of development.

References:

O. Blanchard, Macroeconomcs, Prentice Hall, 2005 (Chap. 2 A Tour of the book; Chap. 10 The Facts of Growth).

D. Acemoglu, S. Johnson, J. Robinson, Institutions as a fundamental cause of long-run growth.

R.C. Allen, Global economic history. A very short introduction, Oxford-New York, Oxford University Press, 2011.

K.G. Persson, An economic history of Europe. Knowledge, institutions and growth, 600 to the present, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Examination: Partial and final examination: written. 

Schedule of classes: Monday (Aula Caparelli B), Tuesday and Wednesday 12-14 (Aula Caparrelli A).