G. Feliu e C. Sudrìà, Introduzione alla Storia Economica Mondiale, CEDAM, Padova, 2013
J. OSTERHAMMEL-N. P. PETERESSON, Storia della globalizzazione, il Mulino, Bologna 2013
R. GILPIN, Economia politica globale. Le relazioni economiche internazionali nel XXI secolo, EGEA-Università Bocconi Editore, Milano 2009
Learning Objectives
To acquire a full understanding of the historical dimension of the economic process in an international dimension
Teaching Methods
Front lessons, using also alternative methods such as visual documentary and moviees; seminarrs given by foreign professors
Further information
lessons could be also given in English according to the students requests and needs
Type of Assessment
oral exam - it can also be given ina different tongue (English, French, Spanish, German)
Course program
Detailed Syllabus
1) From the history of the International economic relations to the International economic
2) Mercantilism-liberalism-protectionism
3) The big actors: Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire
4) The new actors United States, Japan, and Italy
5) The dynamics of the change: technology, foreign investments, and migrations
6) The First World War and its consequences in the long term
7) The New International economic relations in the 1920’s
8) the rupture of the world market and the new North-South economic relations
9) The 1929 crisis and is consequences
10) The Second World War and the postwar world: the new International economic order
11) The «Thirty Glorious»: new and old protagonists of the International economic relations
12) The transatlantic relations in the 1960’s, the end of the Bretton Woods system, and the stagflation
13) The Soviet economic system at work and its crisis
14) The world is bigger. New actors in the Middle East and in Asia
15) The Anglo-Saxon neo-liberalism and its diffusion in the world
16) The collapse of Soviet Union and the end of the Soviet bloc
17) The debt crisis in the southern hemisphere
18) The Asian Tigers and India
19) The difficulties of Africa
20) South America
21) Europe and the Euro
22) The new China
23) Internet and globalization
24) Towards a new economic order: from G8 to G20