Guia docente 2017_18 Facultade de CC. Económicas e Empresariais

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction to the World Economic History	Economic history and economic growth. Periodificación and basic concepts in Economic History.
2. Economic History of Pre-industrial Europe	The secular trend of the preindustrials economies. Population, production and distribution of wealth. Evolution of trade and manufacturing.
3. The Industrial Revolution, Diffusion of industrialisation and Second Industrial Revolution: (1760-1983)	Modern economic growth and institutions. The process of industrialisation: factors of production and innovations of the first Industrial Revolution. Industrial revolution in United Kingdom (1760s-1830'), the diffusin of industrialization in the nineteenth century, the Second Industrial Revolution (1873- 1983). The great divergence (1870-1914).
4. International relations in the nineteenth century and the first wave of capitalist globalization (1870-1914)	The international trade and the first wave of capitalist globalization (1870-1913). International factor movements: capital and migration. An international monetary system: the gold standard.
5. The international economy in the twentieth century	Economics during Inter - War Years (1919-1939). International economy in the golden age of capitalism (1950-1973). The 1973-84 crisis and the responses. The modifications in the world economy from 1973: the second wave of globalization, the Third Techological Revolution, and the economic crises.