Econ 113: American Economic History
2017-01-09 M: Before Class Begins
- Buy and Register your iClicker
2017-01-18 W: Course Introduction https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0LdLCURat7wHXwlQpuyTENh1Q#2017-01-18_Econ_113_Slides
- News Flash: Berkeley and Opportunity
- Lecture: The Story of American Economic History
- Lecture: Big Ideas
- Course Mechanics
- Who Are You?
- Assignment: Letter to Lecturer
- Readings: Paul Boyer: American History: A Very Short Introduction | Boyer Reading Note; Barry Eichengreen (2011): Economic History and Economic Policy | Eichengreen Reading Note; Trevon Logan (2015): A Time Not (Yet) Apart | Logan Reading Note
2017-01-23 M: World Economic Growth since Deep Time https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0LrGo9XoEQ-6Plw4xIs8hEe6Q#2017-01-23_Econ_113_Slides
- Tools: Analyzing Growth
- iClickers: Analyzing Growth
- Background: Economic Growth: The Bird’s-Eye View
- Assignment: Letter to GSIs
- Background: This Is Berkeley
- Readings: Jared Diamond (1997): The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race | Diamond Reading Note; David Landes (2006): Why Europe and the West? Why Not China? | Landes Reading Note
2017-01-25 W: Conquest and Commerce https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0EzGjiA5CSiQa8udzq6XxlAGQ#2017-01-25_Econ_113_Slides
- Tools: Supply, Demand, and Surplus
- iClickers: Reviewing Growth
- Lecture: Conquest and Commerce
- iClickers: 1700 Atlantic Trade in Perspective
- Background: This Is Berkeley
- Readings: Paul Boyer: American History: A Very Short Introduction, ch. 1: Beginnings: Pre-history to 1763; Alan Taylor (2012): Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction | Taylor Reading Note
2017-01-30 M: American Revolutions
- 2017-02-01 W: Hamilton and Industrialization
- 2017-02-06 M: Slavery
- 2017-02-08 W: The Civil War
- 2017-02-13 M: Pre-WWI Globalization
- 2017-02-15 W: First Gilded Age
- 2017-02-22 W: WWI
- 2017-02-27 M: The Roaring 20s
- 2017-03-01 W: Collapse into the Great Depression
- 2017-03-06 M: Recovery from the Great Depression, and Social Democracy
- 2017-03-08 W: WWII
- 2017-03-13 M: Post-WWII: Growth
- 2017-03-15 W: Post-WWII: Distribution
- 2017-03-20 M: Breaking Bretton Woods, Oil Shocks, and the Inflation of the 1970s
- 2017-03-22 W: The Rise of Reagan
- 2017-04-03 M: Productivity Slowdowns
- 2017-04-05 W: Globalization II
- 2017-04-10 M: "Equal" Opportunity
- 2017-04-12 W: Infotech
- 2017-04-17 M: The Longer Depression
- 2017-04-19 W: The Future: Global Warming
- 2017-04-24 M: The Future of Productivity Growth
- 2017-04-26 W: Review
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