Review Lecture: Evans 10 Monday December 15 4-6 PM
Review Lecture: Evans 10 Monday December 15 4-6 PM
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Economics 113: American Economic History
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J. Bradford DeLong [email protected] Evans 601: Lecture: 4 LeConte; MW 4-5:30
Andrej Milivojevic [email protected]: Sections: T4-5 87 Dwinelle, W8-9 61 Evans
Marc Gersen [email protected]: Sections: F2-3 55 Evans, F3-4 55 Evans
Matthew Sargent [email protected]: Sections: M9-10 85 Evans, Th1-2 45 Evans
For those unfamiliar with U.S. history, Marty Olney recommends John Faragher et al (2005), Out of Many (New York: Prentice-Hall)
W Aug 27: OVERVIEW
Sections Aug 28-Sep 3: Welcome, supply and demand (one page introduction due)
W Sep 3: Amerindians, Conquistadores, Explorers, Settlers, and Empires
Sections Sep 4-10: Basic geography
M Sep 8: Colonists, 1600-1776
W Sep 10: Westward, Ho!
W Sep 10: Malthusian economy problem set due
Sections Sep 11-17: Who benefited from slavery? Reading: Who Benefited Most from North American Slavery?
M Sep 15: Slavery and Its Legacy, 1600-1929
W Sep 17: Government, 1600-1870
Sections Sep 18-24: Review
M Sep 22: Review Mock Midterm
M Sep 22: Slavery benefit problem set due at lecture
W Sep 24: MIDTERM 1
M Sep 29: Financial Crisis Teach in
W Oct 1: Technologies, Factories, and Trade, 1870-1929
M Oct 6: Workers, Unions, and Government, 1870-1929
M Oct 6: 1865-1929 Growth Accounting Problem Set due
W Oct 8: Depressions and Panics, 1840-1933
M Oct 13: Great Depression, continued
W Oct 15: The New Deal, 1933-1941
W Oct 15: Simple Macroeconomics problem set due
Sections Oct 9-15: Keynes and Bernanke
M Oct 20: The New Deal, Continued
W Oct 22: World War II and Cold War, 1941-1956
M Oct 27: Mass Production, 1910-1980
Sections Oct 16-22: Marshall Plan and European reconstruction
W Oct 29: Workers, Unions, and Wage Compression, 1929-1975
Sections Oct 23-29: Feminism
M Nov 3: Focus on Women, 1870-present
M Nov 3: Practice Second Midterm Out: http://tinyurl.com/dl20081103
Sections Oct 30-Nov 5: Intergenerational inequality
W Nov 5: Focus on African-Americans, 1900-present
Sections Nov 6-12: Review
M Nov 10: Review
W Nov 12: MIDTERM 2
M Nov 17: Focus on Immigrants, 1870-present
W Nov 19: Stabilization, Full Employment, and Inflation, 1950-present
Sections Nov 13-19: Alesina and the U.S.-Western Europe comparison
W Nov 19: Family immigration story 500 word paper due
M Nov 24: Comparisons: Looking East and Looking South: Why Has There Been so Little Social Democracy in the United States? Why Has America Been so Successful?
M Dec 1: The End of the American Dream? The Productivity Slowdown, the Inflation of the 1970s, and the Great Widening
W Dec 3: The Productivity Speedup of the 1990s
Lecture Notes: Audio
Required Readings: Walton and Rockoff, "Achivements of the Past, Challenges for the Future"; Paul David (1990), “The Dynamo and the Computer: An Historical Perspective on the Modern Productivity Paradox,” American Economic Review, pp. 355-60; Blinder and Yellen, The Fabulous Decade
M Dec 8: The Crisis of Social Insurance: Pensions and Doctors
Sections Dec 4-10: New economy models
M Dec 15: Resources, Suburbs, Global Warming: Limits? Final Review: Review Lecture: Evans 10 Monday December 15 4-6 PM
M Dec 15: 1500 word final paper due
Th Dec 18: FINAL EXAM 8-11AM
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Economics 113: August 27: Introductory Lecture:
Lecture Audio: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2008_mov/20080827.mp3
This file: http://tinyurl.com/dl20080827; http://delong.typepad.com/american_economic_history/2008/08/20080827-econ-1.html
J. Bradford DeLong [email protected] Evans 601: Lecture: 4 LeConte; MW 4-5:30
Andrej Milivojevic [email protected]: Sections: T4-5 87 Dwinelle, W8-9 61 Evans
Marc Gersen [email protected]: Sections: F2-3 55 Evans, F3-4 55 Evans
Matthew Sargent [email protected]: Sections: M9-10 85 Evans, Th1-2 45 Evans
Economics 113 is an upper-division economics course in the study of the history of the U.S. economy that satisfies the political economy historical context requirement. We will survey over three hundred years of history, but inevitably focus more intensely on those incidents that the instructor finds particularly interesting. This is an economics course: we will spend most of our time looking at events, factors, and explanations, using economics to understand history and history to understand economics. Economics 113 must be taken for a grade if it is to be used toward the requirements for the political economy or the economics major.
We have a textbook--Walton and Rockoff's big book. We have two auxilliary books: Blinder and Yellen, and Friedman. We have a bunch of articles and web readings.
For those unfamiliar with U.S. history, Marty Olney recommends John Faragher et al (2005), Out of Many (New York: Prentice-Hall)
Administrivia:
Staff
Final exam: Th Dec 18 8-11
Enrollment
Grading
Overview of Course:
The Role of the University:
The Relevance of Economic History:
Economic history sheds light on:
The Method of Economic History:
Section assignment for first section meeting:
A one-page paper in which you introduce yourself to your GSI
- Include your name and anything else
- include a photo if you can
- Submit at section (or via email)
For you to think about over the next week:
Roughly 14000 years ago rough 100 humans made it to the Americas across the Bering Land Bridge.
A Malthusianly-unstressed preindustrial human population with reasonable access to food (whether hunter-gatherer, herder, or settled agriculture) roughly doubles in a generation of 25 years or so.
If the incipient Amerindian population had remained unstressed, how many American Indians would there be today?
What implications does this have for how we think about the human history of the Americas between ca. 12000 BC and 1492?
Readings for September 3:
Required:
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