The course deals with a long period, from the late Middle Age until today. It focuses on the main economic dynamics that characterized this long phase of the human history
Il mondo globale. Una storia economica, a cura di Franco Amatori e Andrea Colli, Giappichelli, Torino 2017
L. Segreto, L'economia mondiale dopo la fine della Guerra Fredda il Mulino, Bologna, 2018
Learning Objectives
The course aims at familiarizing students with the long-term dynamics of international economic history. The target is to permit the emerging of some answers to questions and problems connected with today's world economic unbalances. The methodology adopted is putting today's question to the past in order to understand origins, similarities, and consequences of the most relevant issues of today's global economy
Prerequisites
Passing exams of History of International Relations, Political Economy, and International Economics
Teaching Methods
Lecturing on the main issues of the course using Power Point Presentations and full recognition of active participation by the students via question & answer methods and critical comments
Further information
Power Point Presentations are available on the Moodle platform before each lecture
Type of Assessment
Written exam lasting 90 minutes with five open questions. Four of them will be selected among four questions in the four chronological sections proposed to the students. The fifth one will be chose among one of those previously discarded. Each answer will receive up to 6 points for a total of 30 points
Course program
General introduction
1. The great divergence
2. New paradigms and new institutions
3. The Industrial Revolution: Technology and Society
4. Why Europe? Why is England?
5. An unstoppable process
7. A new world equilibrium
8. The Western model and its limits
9. First Globalization
The Great War and the End of a World
11. Post-war: the age of uncertainty
12. The crisis of capitalism
13. The interventionist state
14. World War II: creative destruction
15. Finally, prosperity
16 The decolonization: lights and (many) shadows
17. From Keynes-ism to Neo-liberalism
18. Third World, "Third Worlds"
19. The end of a great dream
20. An unstable hegemony
21. Europe looking for an identity
22. The Global World
23 A Different Crisis?