Diplomatura en Ciències Empresarials (3011)

Història de l'Economia Internacional(10139) 

Tema 1

Overseas trade in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries:

Growth in Commodity trade.

Role of the Financial Sector.

War and Government and the Navigation Acts.

Tema 2. International Economy in the nineteenth Century.

Economic Growth and Free Trade.

Spread of Industrialization.

Factor mobility - labor and capital.

Growth of a multilateral payments system.

Imperialism and the Brtish Capital Market

The Gold Standard before 1913.

Tema 3. Interwar Years.

International economy and growth of protectionism.

Restoration of the Gold Standard.

Great Depression and the collapse of the international economy.

Tema 4. The International Economy after 1945.

Reconstruction.

Bretton Woods system and the financial system.

GATT and the dissolution of trade barriers.

Growth of regional trading blocs.

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