Economics 210a: Spring 2009

Syllabus: Econ 210a, Spring 2009

UPDATE: For January 28:

Readings:

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson (2005), "The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth," American Economic Review 95, PP. 546-79 http://tinyurl.com/dl20090122.

Jeffrey Williamson and Kevin O'Rourke, "After Columbus: Explaining Europe's Overseas Trade Boom, 1500-1800," Journal of Economic History 62, pp. 417-456 http://www.nber.org/papers/w8186.

Jan de Vries (forthcoming), "The Limits to Globalization in the Early Modern World," Economic History Review http://tinyurl.com/dl20090122a.

Karl Marx, "The So-called Primitive Capital Accumulation," Capital Vol. 1, Part VIII, Chs. 26-32 http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch.26.htm.

Ralph Austen and Woodruff D. Smith (1992), "Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The Slave-Sugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization," in Joseph E. Imkori and Stanley L. Engerman, eds., The Atlantic Slave Trade (Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1992), pp. 183-203 http://tinyurl.com/dl20090122b.

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Course Preparation Notes

Pre-course:

• Jan 7: Distribute paper assignment @7Jan2009 @210a2009
• Jan 7: One to two page memos on the readings each week--distribute questions on @7Jan2009 @210a2009
• Jan 7: Email readings and syllabus to students @7Jan2009 @210a2009

First Meeting Jan 21: Organization

Jan 21: The Malthusian Economy? (DeLong) at noon Evans 608-7

• Notes:
• Readings:
• Question
• Pop quiz

**Jan 28: Commercial Revolution (de Vries)

Feb 4: Agriculture (Eichengreen)

Feb 11: Industrial Revolution (de Vries)

Feb 18: American Exceptionalism (Eichengreen)

Feb 25: Slavery and Serfdom (DeLong)**

• Notes:
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• Question

**Mar 4: 19th Century Capital Markets (Eichengreen)

Mar 11: 19th Century Labor Markets

Mar 18: Atlantic Economy (DeLong)**

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Mar 20: Paper Assignment: ten-page literature review due

**Apr 1: Gold Standard (Eichengreen)

Apr 8: Financial Crises and the Emergence of the Business Cycle (Eichengreen)

Apr 15: Great Depression I (DeLong)**

• Notes:
• Readings:
• Question

Apr 22: Great Depression II (Eichengreen)

Apr 29: The Mixed Economy and Its Crisis (DeLong)

• Notes:
• Readings:
• Question

May 6: The Great Divergence (DeLong)

• Notes:
• Readings:
• Question

May 13: Paper Assignment: 20-page paper due

Test for Graduate Economic History: Spring 2009

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