Course Details
Country:
France
Institution:
Sciences Po - Paris campus
Course Title:
GLOBAL ECONOMIC HISTORY
Course Number:
DECO 25A04
Course Description:
This introductory course to Global Economic History starts from a classic question: why did capitalism and industrialisation emerge in Europe, particularly in England, and not elsewhere – in China to start with? The first series of lectures (1 to 6) reviews and discusses the main thesis that have been brought forward. They all relate, more or less directly, to given chapters in the theory of economic growth: trade and market integration, property rights and wage labour, institutions and state-building, technology, finance. The point however is not to propose a grand theory, or a panoramic narrative, but to explore successive entries into our subject. This will bring us to the seventh, summary lecture which focuses on the English/ French contrast in the century before 1789. Then, lectures 8 to 12 are about Western capitalism at its height and how it structured a new, integrated, global economy. One issue is late industrialisation
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
HIST 388
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