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VECCHI GIOVANNI
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programma)
1. The pre-industrial economy and the Malthusian growth mode
2. Britain’s Industrial Revolution
3. The First Globalization
3.1. International trade and the Ricardian model
3.2. The Age of Mass Migration
3.3. Capital flows
3.4. The Heckscher-Ohlin model
3.5. The International Monetary System
4. WWI – The War Economy and the Economic Consequences of the Peace
5. The International Economy between the WW: the Great Depression
6. WWII: Bretton Woods and the Marshall plan
7. Europe’s Golden Age (1950-1973)
8. Two Centuries of Inequality and Poverty Around the World
LECTURES AND READINGS
The pre-Industrial economy and the Malthusian growth model
Readings:
Deaton, A. (2014), The Great Escape, Princeton University Press. (Chapter 2)
Clark, G. (2008), A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton University Press. (Chapter 2)
Invited lecture I: Prof. Alessandro Nuvolari (Scuola Superiore S.Anna) - Britain’s Industrial Revolution
Readings:
Landes, D. (2003), “The Unbound Prometheus”, Cambridge University Press. (Chapter 2)
Allen, R.C. (2010), “Why the industrial revolution was British: commerce, induced invention, and the scientific revolution”, Economic History Review.
The first globalization (I – International trade)
Readings:
O’Rourke, K. and J.G. Williamson (1999), Globalization and History. The evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press; Chapter 2
Krugman, P. R., Obstfeld M., and M. Melitz (2014), International Economics: Theory and Policy, 10th Edition, Prentice Hall; Chapter 3 (not compulsory)
The First Globalization (II – Mass Migration and Capital Flows)
Readings:
O’Rourke, K. and J.G. Williamson (1999), Globalization and History. The evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press; Chapters 6 and 11
Invited lecture II: Prof. Emanuele Felice (U. Autonoma Barcellona) - GDP and convergence in modern times
Readings:
E. Felice (2014), GDP and convergence in modern time, AFC WP, 1.
The First Globalization (III – The Heckscher-Ohlin Model)
Readings:
O’Rourke, K. and J.G. Williamson (1999), Globalization and History. The evolution of a nineteenth-century Atlantic economy. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press; Chapters 1, 3 and 13.
The First Globalization (IV – The International Monetary System)
Readings:
Cameron, R. and L. Neal (2002), A Concise Economic History of the World, From Paleolithic Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 12
Krugman, P. R., Obstfeld M., and M. Melitz (2014), International Economics: Theory and Policy, 10th Edition, Prentice Hall; Chapter 19
Invited lecture III: Prof. Michelangelo Vasta (U. Siena) - National Innovation system in historical perspective: the Italian case
Readings:
Nuvolari, A. and M. Vasta (2012), “The Ghost in the Attic? The Italian National Innovation System in Historical Perspective, 1861-2011”, Quaderni del dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistica dell'Università di Siena.
The War Economy and the Economic Consequences of the Peace
Readings:
Feinstein, C.H., P. Temin and G. Toniolo (2008), The World Economy between the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapters 1 and 2
The economy between the World Wars and the Great Depression
Readings:
Feinstein, C.H., P. Temin and G. Toniolo (2008), The World Economy between the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapters 3, 4 and 6
Keynes, J.M. (1930), “The Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” in Essays in Persuasion. (Ed. 1963), Norton.
Invited lecture IV: Prof. Andrea Colli (U. Bocconi) - On Business History: A Primer
Readings:
Y. Cassis, “Big Business”, in G. Jones and J. Zeitlin, The Oxford Handbook of Business History, pp. 171 ss.
The Bretton Woods conference and the Marshall Plan
Readings:
Feinstein, C.H., P. Temin and G. Toniolo (2008), The World Economy between the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 10
Cameron, R. and L. Neal (2002), A Concise Economic History of the World, From Paleolithic Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, Chapter 15
Europe’s Golden Age (1950-1973)
Readings:
Toniolo, G. (1998) “Europe’s golden age, 1950-1973: speculations from a long-run perspective”, Economic History Review, LI, 2: 252-67.
Invited lecture V: Prof. Gianni Toniolo (LUISS and Duke University) - Europe in History
Readings:
TBA.
Two Centuries of Inequality and Poverty Around the World
Readings:
Bourguignon. F. and C. Morrisson 2002. Inequality Among World Citizens: 1820-1992, in American Economic Review, 92, 4, pp. 727-744.
