Economics 210a: Introduction to Economic History: Proposed Class Topics (U.C. Berkeley, Spring 2010, Intended for First-Year Graduate Students in Economics)
I. Pre-Industrial Economies
Jan 20: Modes of Production
Jan 27: Malthus and the Demographic Transition
Feb 3: Industrious Revolutions
Feb 10: Trade, Law, and State
II. The Industrial Economic World
Feb 17: Industrial Revolutions
Feb 24: Globalizations
Mar 3: Divergences
Mar 10: WWI and the Great Depression
Mar 17: WWII and the Thirty Glorious Years
Mar 31: The Forward March of Social Democracy Halted?
Apr 7: China Stands Up
III. Macroeconomics in Historical Perspective
Apr 14: Lombard Street, 1825-1914
April 21: The Great Contraction, 1929-1933
Apr 28: The Panic of 2007-2010
IV. Conclusion
May 5: Reflections
