I. PRE-MODERN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC HISTORY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE (1000-1750)

Tema 1. Neoclassical Predictions and Economic History
1.1. The Heckscher-Ohlin model.
1.2. Neoclassic Predictions and Robert Lucas.
1.3. When did globalization begin?

Tema 2. Barriers to Globalization
2.1. Transportation Costs.
2.2. Information and Contract Enforcement.
2.3. The Political factor.

Tema 3. Pre-Industrial International Commerce: 1000–1750
3.1. Northern Commerce, in the Baltic and North Seas: The Hanseatic League and the Rise of the Dutch Commercial Empire, 1350-1600.
3.2. The Portuguese and Spanish Empires, 1420–1600.
3.3. English Overseas Trade.

Tema 4. Pre-Industrial Money and Capital Markets: 1000–1750
4.1. Banking, credit, and finance, 1280–1520.
4.2. The European Price Revolution Era c.1540-c. 1640: The Problem of Inflation and Economic Growth in Early-Modern Europe.
4.3. Financial integration in the Middle Ages.

II. MODERN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC HISTORY

Tema 5. Globalization and the industrial revolution
5.1. Form mercantilism to the first global era.
5.2. Industrialization in the Core: From Corn Laws to free Trade.
5.3. Africa, Slavery and the 18^th Century Atlantic System.

Tema 6. Globalization in the Periphery: De-industrialization and Protection
6.1. The De-industrialization of India.
6.2. Tariff Barriers in Latin America.
6.3. The role of the commodity lottery and implications for development and inequality.

Tema 7. Emergence of Global Factor Markets: Labor and Capital
7.1. The age of mass migration.
7.2. Convergence of prices.
7.3. Money and capital markets.

Tema 8. Globalization Backlash in the 20^th Century
8.1. The Great Depression.
8.2. Regionalization and the postwar order.
8.3. De globalization from the periphery.

Tema 9. The second global era
9.1. The emergence of China and India.
9.2. The new impact of migration movements.
9.3. Globalization and inequality as if all citizens mattered: the gender approach.

Tema 10. Globalization and inequality in the log run
10.1. When and why do countries converge?
10.2. When and why do countries diverge?
10.3. Does globalization make the world more unequal?

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Criteris d'avaluació
- Class participation (10%). Class discussion is an essential component of this tutorial. Be prepared to discuss the assigned readings in class.
- Group assignment (20%). You will be required to prepare a 1 hour presentation in groups of 3-4 students about one of the topics listed below.
- Final exam (70%).