at bCourses: https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1487684 https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2020-spring-econ-115-001-lec-001
here at teaching economics: http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/20th-c.html
Major Reading Source
DRAFT of J. Bradford DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia?: An Economic History of the Long Twentieth Century (New York: Basic Books) https://delong.typepad.com/files/slouching-towards-utopia-fall-2019.zip
Course Schedule
W Jan 15: Before Class Begins https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/big-ideas.html | Write a FAQ syllabus question https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/faq.html
W Jan 22: Grand Narratives & Big Ideas in the Long Twentieth Century, 1870-2016 https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/big-ideas.html | Letter to GSI assignment https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/letter.html
W Jan 29: Globalizing the World, 1870–1914 & Revving-Up the Technological Engine of Growth, 1870–1914 https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/globalizing-revving.html
M Feb 03: North Atlantic Political Economy, 1870–1914 https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/pre-wwi-pol-econ.html
W Feb 05: Empire & War, 1870–1920 https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/w-feb-05-empire-war.html | 'What is economics?' assignment https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/what-is-economics-assignment.html
Read: DeLong, chapters 6 & 7
Slides:
-1. Before Class Begins
Do Assignment 1: Suggested Question for Course FAQ by W Jan 22 17:00 Buy and register: iClicker Buy: books Download: DRAFT text
0. Introduction
W Jan 22: STU? 1: Grand Narratives. 2: Themes. & Big Ideas (Dasgupta)
- Slides: https://tinyurl.com/20191219dl
- Do Assignment 2: Letter to GSI by Sa Jan 25 17:00
1. Rise & Fall of Classical Liberal Utopia
M Jan 27: STU? 3: Globalizing the World: 1870–1914 (Eichengreen 1&2)
W Jan 29: STU? 4: Revving-Up the Technological Engine of Growth: 1870–1914
M Feb 03: STU? 5: North Atlantic Political Economy: 1870–1914
W Feb 05: STU? 6: Empires, 1870–1914. 7: The Knot of War: 1914–1920
M Feb 10: STU? 8: After World War I: Restoring? Civilization?: 1917–1929 (Eichengreen 3)
W Feb 12: STU? 9: Roaring Twenties: 1917–1929. 10: The Great Depression: 1925–1941 (Skidelsky)
W Feb 19: STU? 13: Climbing Out of the Great Depression: 1931–1941
M Feb 24: MIDTERM I
2. Searching for Alternatives
W Feb 26: STU? 11: Really Existing Socialism & the Soviet Union: 1905–1953
M Mar 02: STU? 12: Fascism & Nazi Germany: 1919–1945
W Mar 04: STU? 14: Understanding World War II: 1933–1945
M Mar 09: STU? 15: The Cold War: 1917–1991
W Mar 11: STU? 17: False (& True) Development in Emerging Markets: 1914–2016
M Mar 16: STU? 16: Thirty Glorious Years: 1945–1980 (Eichengreen 4)
W Mar 18: MIDTERM II
3. Social Democracy’s Triumph & Fall
M Mar 30: STU? 18: Social Democracy: High Tide & Ebb: 1900–1995
W Apr 01: STU? 22: Really-Existing Socialism’s End: 1953–2016
M Apr 06: STU? 20: The Neoliberal Turn: 1973–2008 (Eichengreen 5)
W Apr 08: STU? 19: Inclusion: 1865–2016
M Apr 13: STU? 21: East Asia’s Rise: 1853–2016
4. Making the World We Live in
W Apr 18: STU? 23: Globalization, Technology, and Organization: 1870–2016 (Cohen and DeLong)
M Apr 20: STU? 24: The Near-Second Great Depression: 2001–2016 (Eichengreen 6, 7, & 8)
W Apr 22: An End to “Neoliberalism”?
5. Making Humanity’s Future
M Apr 27: STU? 25: Civilization-Scale Threats: 2000-?
W Apr 29: STU? 26: Conclusion: Slouching Towards What?: 2000-? (Allen)
6. Review and Assessment
W May 06: Q&A REVIEW
F May 15: FINAL EXAM: 3–6 PM
Other Readings
Robert Allen (2011): Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction https://delong.typepad.com/files/allen-geh.pdf
Stephen Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong (2016): Concrete Economics: A Hamilton Approach to Economic Policy https://delong.typepad.com/files/cohen-delong-concrete.pdf
Partha Dasgupta (2007): Economics: A Very Short Introduction https://delong.typepad.com/files/dasgupta-economics.pdf
Barry Eichengreen (2008): Globalizing Capital: A Short History of the World Monetary System https://delong.typepad.com/files/eichengreen-globalizing.pdf
Robert Skidelsky (2010): Keynes: A Very Short Introduction https://delong.typepad.com/files/skidelsky-keynes.pdf
Not-Even-Optional Readings
- Abigail Smith Adams (1776): Letter to John Adams: Mar 31-Apr 5 https://tinyurl.com/2019-12-19-dl-1
- Edward Bellamy (1887): Looking Backward 2000-1887 https://delong.typepad.com/files/bellamy-backward.pdf
- Andy Matuschak (2019): Why Books Don’t Work https://andymatuschak.org/books/
- Karl Polanyi (1944): The Great Transformation https://delong.typepad.com/files/polanyi-transformation.pdf
- Ronald Reagan (1971): Conversation with Richard Nixon https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-reagans-racist-conversation-richard-nixon/595102/
Midterm format?
Problem sets and exercises?
How to use section time? * 20 minutes per lecture * 5 minutes on points left unclear—or simply wrong—in the lecture * How to use the other 15 minutes per lecture?
INTRODUCTION: https://www.icloud.com/pages/0TzensY9YyNvqcY8elYagLUnQ
- J. Bradford DeLong (2008): 1870: The Real Industrial Revolution?
J. Bradford DeLong (2018): Dark Satanic Millian Liberalism from John Stuart Mill
- Charles Dickens (1843): A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
- John Holbo (2003): John & Belle Have A Blog: Dead Right
- Thomas Robert Malthus (1798): An Essay on the Principle of Population
- John Stuart Mill (1848-71): Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy
- John Stuart Mill (1857): The Project Gutenberg eBook of On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1907): On the occasion of the laying of the corner stone of the Pilgrim memorial monument"
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