Llicenciatura en Economia (3322)
Llicenciatura en Administració i Direcció d'Empreses (3323)

Història Econòmica Internacional(11855) 

Tema 1. Economic growth in the Twentieth century: an overview

The main periods of world economic growth. Economic growth, globalization and convergence.

Tema 2. Economic integration during the last third of the nineteenth century (1870-1914)

Factor movements: international migrations, international trade and policy and foreign investment. The gold standard and the stability of the international monetary system. The second industrial revolution and changing economic leadership: Britain, Germany and the United States. Overseas developments.

Tema 3. World War I and the failure of the postwar reconstruction, 1914-1929

The heritage of World War I. War reparations and monetary disorder: German hyperinflation. Attempts of monetary stabilization and the return to the gold standard: a comparison between Britain and France. Growth and fluctuations in the world economy in the Twenties. The primary goods export economies: challenges and responses.

Tema 4. The Great Depression of the Interwar years, 1929-1939

The start of the depression in the United States and its international diffusion. The causes of the Great Depression: monetarists versus keynesianists. The impact of the Depression: Europe, Latin America and Asia. Recovery patterns and policies: case studies.

Tema 5. The golden years of capitalism and its foundations

World War II and the reconstruction success, 1939-1950: Bretton Woods and the Marshall Plan. The golden age: growth factors. The new liberal order. International migrations. World trade and GATT. Capital flows under Bretton Woods. A comparative perspective of economic growth: Eastern Europe, South America, Asia and Africa. The import substitution industrializations.

Tema 6. The new phase of the world economy: stagflation, 1973-1985

The precedents: the collapse of the Bretton Woods monetary system and the rigidities in the labor markets. The cartelization of the oil market: the OPEC. The oil shocks. Adjustment policies: Europe, Japan and the United States. The debt problem: foreign indebtment and backwardness. The deceleration of the planned economies and its causes. Growing in a world in crisis: the exceptional case of the East Asian countries.

Tema 7. Towards a globalized world economy, 1985-2002

The crossroads of the 1980s. The building of a new economic policy and its outcomes. The collapse of the socialist planned economies and the transition to capitalist market based systems. Growth and crisis of the Asian model. Latin American problems. The African failure. The third technological revolution. Growth and instability of the world economy.

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