Weekly Memo Questions Bank: https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/memo-questions.html
- Past Model Economic History Papers https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/model-economic-history-papers.html
- Possible Book Order http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/210a-2019.html (Dasgupta, Allen, Finley, Keynes, Baldwin)
- DRAFT Syllabus https://www.icloud.com/pages/0c8aFBnxIqwiaF-Fiax-Lzudg
- DRAFT Readings https://www.icloud.com/pages/0xoFI9oBxlF8SufEZlrMb3jww
- DRAFT Logistics https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0ERlxVwhRxr2D5cnMk0qowrJg
- DRAFT bCourses
- Brad DeLong's Office Hours: ???, and by appointment: send email to: delong@econ.berkeley.edu
- Logistics https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0ERlxVwhRxr2D5cnMk0qowrJg
Winter Vacation Reading (and Writing) https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/210a-2019.html
First Class: The Place of Economic History/The Malthusian Economy
The Usefulness? of Economic History https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/usefulness.html...
Malthusian Economies https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/the-malthusian-economy.html...
Second Class: Technology and Organization in the Pre-Industrial Long Run
Technology & Organization in the Pre-Industrial Long Run https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/technology-pre-industrial.html
Third Class: Commercial Revolutions
Commercial Revolutions https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/cr.html
Fourth Class: Industrial Revolutions and Modern Economic Growth
The Industrial Revolution https://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/ir.html
Modern Economic Growth
January 29: Commercial Revolutions/A Great Divergence?
- Revving Up Progress: Commercial Revolutions http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/revving-up-progress.html: 1400 - 1800 CE
- When and how did western Europe" become "exceptional"?
- What kind of "exception" was western Europe?
- Why not China? Why not the Indian Ocean? Why not Abbasid Islamic civilization? Why not classical antiquity?
February 5: Industrial Revolutions/Modern Economic Growth
- The Industrial Revolution: Origins http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/industrial.html: 1700 - 1900 CE
- The Industrial Revolution: Consequences
- Modern Economic Growth: Technology and Innovation http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/modern.html: 1870 CE - Present
- Modern Economic Growth: Trade, Investment, Migration, and the Development of "Underdevelopment"
February 12: Unfreedom/Inequality
- Pre-Commercial Revolution Slavery and Serfdom http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/unfreedom.html: 10000 BCE - Present
- Commercial and Industrial Revolution-Era Slavery
- Pre-Industrial Inequality http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/inequality.html: 10000 BCE - Present
- The First and Second Gilded Ages—and What Came Between
February 19: Comparative Development and Underdevelopment/American Exceptionalism
- Industrial Policies: Failures and Successes http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/comparative-.html: 1800 CE - Present
- Colonalism and Underdevelopment
- American Exceptionalism: The Hamiltonian Frontier Economy
- American Exceptionalism: "Fordism" and the Eisenhower Era
- Memo Question for "American Exceptionalism" http://delong.typepad.com/teaching_economics/inequality.html#question2
February 26: Labor Markets/Capital Markets
- Labor Markets: Competition and Information https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0E-ZZwQWoUMgQzemfaqo-9bHA
- Labor Markets: Monopsony and Unions
- Capital Markets: Banking https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0f4kHkrxIbwEGb1yge_3fKn-g
- Capital Markets: Corporate Finance
March 4: Infrastructure/Education
- Infrastructure and Growth
- Education and Growth
- Education and Inequality
- "Institutions" and Outcomes
March 11: Women/Children
- Women's Place in Indo-European Malthusian Economies
- Women's Place and the Demographic Transition
- "The Pill", etc.
- Children as Social and Private Responsibility
March 18: Globalization/International Trade
- Waves of Globalization
- Globalization Backlash and Polanyiist Political Economy
- Globalization and Inequality
- Trade and Power
April 1: Origins of the Great Depression/The Great Recession in Historical Perspective
- Minskyism: Financial Weaknesses and Herd Behavior
- "Liquidationism": Depressions as a "cold douche"
- Policy and the Great Depression
- Policy and the Great Recession
April 8: Paper in Progress Presentations
April 15: Paper in Progress Presentations
April 22: Paper in Progress Presentations
April 29: Recovery from the Great Depression/Modern Political Economy
- The Great Depression and Social Democracy: America and the New Deal
- The Great Depression and Fascism: Western Europe
- Present at the Creation: Bretton Woods and the Marshall Plan
- "The Treaty of Detroit" and the First-Generation Post-WWII Order
May 6: The Golden Age/The Great Compression and Its Undoing
- "Trentes Glorieuses"
- Inflation and the Rise of "Neoliberalism"
- Understanding the "Great Compression"
- Understanding the Coming of the Second Gilded Age
Past bCourses:
- 2016 https://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/02/econ-210a-spring-2016-first-half-introduction-to-economic-history-files.html https://www.bradford-delong.com/introduction-to-economic-history-graduate-basecamp-policy.html https://eml.berkeley.edu/~webfac/eichengreen//e210a_sp14/210a_syl_sp16_1-13-16_FINAL.pdf
- 2017 https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1456907
- 2018 https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1468171
- 2019 https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1478289
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