Economic History 2400-L1PPHG

1 Introduction. Economic revolutions. What is economic growth and development. Mechanisms and barriers to economic growth - specialization, resource availability (Malthusian era), mechanization, inter- and intra-sectoral productivity growth. Historical demography - determinants of population size, demographic transitions.
2. State and economy of medieval Europe: evolution of political and economic structures. Agriculture as the basis for the functioning of medieval monarchies. Evolution of the agricultural system in the Middle Ages. Malthusian crises and their significance.
3 Cities and trade in medieval Europe: the collapse of the urban economy and trade in the early Middle Ages. The urban revolution in the late Middle Ages: the emergence of local and regional markets. The local nature of the urban economy. The crisis caused by the great pandemic of the “Black Death” and its significance for the economic development of Europe.
4. Colonial expansion of Europe in the 15th-17th centuries: geographical discoveries, their causes, organization and course. The colonial empires of Spain and Portugal. Consequences of geographical discoveries. The price revolution. The new economic geography of Europe.
5. New type of state in modern Europe and evolution of state structures: Centralization of the state. Fiscal state vs. domain state. Origins of the nation-state. Models of the modern state. Decentralized state in Poland: parliamentarism of the nobility and another path of state evolution. Crisis of the 17th-18th centuries in Poland
6. Economic development in modern Europe: Mercantilism and the beginnings of modern economic policy. Development of markets and commercial capitalism, e.g., France, Holland, England. Agrarian dualism. Consequences of dependent development. The economy of the Republic in the 16th-17th centuries.
7. Genesis of the industrial revolution in Great Britain: Evolution of the political system. Agrarian revolution and fencing: modern property rights. The colonial empire of Great Britain. Other conditions of the Industrial Revolution (why England?).
8. The revolutionary era of the late 18th century: the Industrial Revolution in Britain - the course and consequences: the emergence of modern industrial society. Political revolution in the USA. Crisis of French absolutism. French Revolution. The impact of political revolutions in France and North America on social and economic change.
9. industrialization of the West: early industrialization countries from Belgium to the USA. Pax Britannica: the era of gold currency and free trade. Technological breakthrough and changes in the organization of production. The managerial revolution. Globalization.
10. countries of late industrialization: successes and failures. Europe: Germany, Sweden, Austria-Hungary, Russia. First industrialized non-Western country: Japan. European imperialism.
11. Interwar period: the First World War and the war economy. Postwar political and economic geography of Europe. Hyperinflation in central and eastern Europe. The Great Depression. Economic roots of totalitarianism in Germany. Anti-crisis policies. The economy of the Second Republic. World War II.
12. the period after World War II: The Bretton Woods system. The golden thirty. Decolonization. First, second and third worlds. Development paths of Third World countries. The oil crisis and its causes. Society of mass consumption.
13. European integration in historical perspective: unification of Germany and Italy in the 19th century, political and economic conditions. Marshall Plan and American integration impulse. Disputes over the model of integration (Council of Europe, ECSC, EFTA, EEC). Broadening and deepening of integration.
14. Real socialism: the rise of the anti-market economy. Centrally planned economy. Stalinism and the industrialization of the USSR. State socialism after World War II: USSR and satellite countries. Drivers of economic growth. Crisis of the socialist economy.
15. Recent decades: New model of economic policy after the oil crisis (neoliberalism). IMF, Washington Consensus and deregulation of peripheral economies. Systemic transformation of socialist countries. The economic crises of 1980-90 and the first decade of the 21st century. Summary.
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