Guia docente 2018_19 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 (1760-1870)	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 diffusion of industrialization in the nineteenth century
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. The Second Industrial Revolution
5. The international economy in the twentieth century	Inter - War economy (1919-1939). International economy in the golden age of capitalism (1950-1973). The 1973-84 crisis and adjustment responses. The modifications in the world economy from 1980': the second wave of globalization, the Third Techological Revolution, and the economic crises.