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

Història Econòmica Internacional(11855) 

Tema 1. The Malthusian Trap

Tema 2. Industrial Revolutions

2.1. Factual and Counterfactual Debates.
2.2. Models for the British Industrial Revolution.
2.3. Gerschenkron and the Industrialization of the European Continent.

Tema 3. Space: the final frontier

3.1. On the death of distance.
3.2. Mega Cities and Urbanization – Empirics.
3.3. Basic models on urbanization and the spread of industry.

Tema 4. Two Eras of Globalization compared

4.1. When did Globalization begin?
4.2. The “Heckscher-Ohlin Globalization”.
4.3. Differences 1900-2000.
4.4. Feasible Globalizations.  

Tema 5. Monetary Systems and Capital Markets

5.1. The Macroeconomic Trilemma in History.
5.2. The Gold Standard – how it worked, how it failed.
5.3. Bretton Woods and Globalizing Capital.  

Tema 6. Globalization Backlash

6.1. The Empirics of the World Economic Crisis.
6.2. Shocks, their Transmission, and a German puzzle.
6.4. Is Globalization in Danger?  

Tema 7. Divergence Big Time

7.1. Neoclassic Predictions and Robert Lucas.
7.2. When did divergence start?
7.3. Why isn’t the whole world developed? Institutions vs. Geography.  

Tema 8. Asian Miracles, European Stagnation, African Tragedies

8.1. Can East Asian growth continue?
8.2. Europe: the fading miracle.
8.3. Explaining African Performance.  

Bibliografia

Textbooks
CAMERON, R; NEAL, L. A concise Economic History of the World. Nova York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
CLARK, Gregory. The Conquest of Nature. A Brief Economic History of the World. UC Davis, Manuscript, 2003.
EICHENGREEN, B.; FLANDREAU, M. The Gold Standard in Theory and History. Londres: Routledge, 1997.
FEINSTEIN, C. H.; TEMIN, P.; TONIOLO, G. The European Economy Between the Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
GERSCHENKRON, A. Economic Backwardness in Historical perspective. Cambridge (Mass.): Belknap Press of Harvard, 1962.
HOHENBERG, P. M.; LEES, L. H. The Making of Urban Europe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
KENWOOD, A. G.; LOUGHEED, A. L. The Growth of the International Economy. Londres: Routledge, 1999.
LIVI-BACCI, M. A Concise History of World Population. Blackwell, 2001.
MOKYR, J. The British Industrial Revolution – An Economic Perspective. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.
O’ROURKE, K. H.; WILLIAMSON, J. G. Globalization and History. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.

Basic Papers and Journal Articles
ACEMOGLU, Daron; JOHNSON, Simon; ROBINSON, James. “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation”. AER, 91 (5). 2002. Pàg. 1369-1401.
BORDO, Michael; EICHENGREEN, Barry; IRWIN, Douglas. “Is Globalization today really different than 100 Years ago?” NBER WP, 7195. 1999.
BORDO, Michael; KYDLAND, Finn. “The Gold Standard as a rule: an Essay in Exploration”. EEH, 32 (4). 1995. Pàg. 423-464.
BORDO, Michael. “The Bretton Woods International Monetary System. An Historical Overview”. NBER WP, 4033. 1992.
BOLTHO, A. “China-Can Rapid Economic Growth Continue?”. Singapore Economic Review, 49. 2004. Pàg. 255-272.
BROADBERRY, Stephen; GUPTA, Bishnupriya. “The early modern great divergence: wages, prices, and economic development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800”. Mimeo, 2005.
CLARK, Gregory. “The Great Escape. The Industrial Revolution in Theory and History”. Mimeo, 2003.
CLARK, Gregory. “Why isn’t the whole world developed? Lessons from the Cotton Mills”. JEH, 47 (1). 1987. Pàg. 141-173.
COLLIER, Paul; GUNNING, J. W. “Explaining African Economic Performance”. JEL, 37. 1999. Pàg. 67-111.
CRAFTS, Nichlas. “Implications of Financial Crisis for East Asian Trend Growth”.Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 15 (3). Pàg. 110-131.
EASTERLY, William; LEVINE, Ross. “ Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions”. QJE, 112(4). 1997. Pàg. 1203-1250.
EICHENGREEN, Barry. “Understanding the Great Depression”. Canadian Journal of Economics, 37. 2004. Pàg. 1-27.
GALLUP, John L.; SACHS, Jeffrey; MELLINGER, Andrew. “Geography and Economic Development”. International Regional Science Review, 22. 1999. Pàg. 179-232.
GIERSCH, Herbert; PAQUÉ, Karl-Heinz; SCHMIEDING, Holger. “The Fading Miracle. Four Decades of Market Economy in Germany”. 1995. (Selected chapters).
KRUGMAN, Paul. “Increasing returns and economic geography”. JPE, 99. 1992. Pàg. 483-499.
LUCAS, Robert. “Why doesn’t Capital flow from Rich to Poor Countries?”. AER, 80 (2). 1990. Pàg. 92-96.
McCALLUM, John. “National Borders Matter, Canada-US regional trade patterns”. AER, 85. 1995. Pàg. 615-623.
NEWELL, A; SYMONS, J. S. V. “The Macroeconomics of the Interwar Years”. A: EICHENGREEN, B.; HATTON, T. (ed.). Interwar Unemployment in International Perspective. Kluwer, 1988.
NICOLINI, Esteban. “Was Malthus right? A VAR analysis of the pre-industrial English demographic system”. Mimeo, 2003.
OBSTFELD, Maurice; SHAMBAUGH, Jay; TAYLOR, Alan. “The Trilemma in History: Tradeoffs among Exchange Rates, Monetary Policies, and Capital Mobility”. NBER WP, 10396. 2004.
O’ROURKE, Kevin; WILLIAMSON, Jeffrey. “When did Globalization begin?” European Review of Economic History, 6. 2002. Pàg. 23-50.
PUGA, Diego; VENABLES, Anthony. “The spread of industry; spatial agglomeration and economic development”. Journal of the Japanese and International Economics, 10 (4). 1995. Pàg. 440-464.
REDDING, Stephen; VENABLES, Anthony. “Economic Geography and International Inequality”. JIE, 62. 2004. Pàg. 53-82.
RITSCHL, Albrecht; WOITEK, Ulrich. “Did monetary forces cause the great depression? A Bayesian VAR Analysis for the US Economy”. Mimeo, 2002.
RITSCHL, Albrecht. “The Origins and Nature of the German Transfer Problem, 1920-1933: Lessons from Sovereign Debt Theory”. Mimeo, 2003.
RODRIK, Dani. “Feasible Globalizations”. NBER WP, 9129. 2002.
ROMER, Christina. “What ended the Great depression?”. JEH, 52. 1992. Pàg. 757-784.
TEMIN, Peter. “Two views of the British industrial Revolution”. JEH, 57 (1). 1997. Pàg. 63-82.
WOLF, Michael. “Is Globalization in Danger?”. The World Economy, 26. 2003. Pàg. 393-411.