Week 1. Introduction
1.1. Post-1945 European economic growth in historical perspective.
1.2. European integration in historical perspective.
Bibliografia
CRAFTS, N.; TONIOLO, G. Postwar growth: an overview. Pàg. 1-37.
EICHENGREEN, B. “Institutions and economic growth: Europe after 1945” in: CRAFTS, N.; TONIOLO, G. (ed.). Economic growth in Europe. Pàg. 38-72.

Week 2. War and postwar planning
2.1. The wartime economy and its legacies.
2.2. Bretton Woods and the new international monetary system.
Bibliografia
ALDCROFT, D. The European economy, 1914-2000. Cap. 4. “War and Reconstruction”. I part. Pàg. 94-120.
EICHENGREEN, B. Globalizing Capital. Cap. 4. “The Bretton Woods System”. I part. Pàg. 93-116.
HOWLETT, P. “The legacy of the second world war” in: SCHULZE, M. S. (ed.). Western Europe. Economic and social change since 1945. Pàg. 5-22.

Week 3. The political economy of European reconstruction
3.1. The Marshall Plan, the Oeec and the origins of European regionalism.
3.2. Coal and Steel and European reconstruction.
Bibliografia
ALDCROFT, D. The European economy, 1914-2000. Cap. 4. “War and Reconstruction”. II part. “The Road to Recovery”. Pàg. 120-127.
GEIGER, T. Reconstruction and the beginning of European integration. Cap. 3. Pàg. 23-42.
SCHENK, C. “Foreign Trade and Payments in Western Europe” in: SCHULZE, M. S. (ed.). Western Europe. Economic and social change since 1945. Pàg. 105-121.

Week 4. The integration of Western Europe
4.1. The Common market, intra-European trade and common policies.
4.2. Europe and the world economy.
Bibliografia
EICHENGREEN, B. The European economy since 1945. Cap. 6. “The integration of Western Europe”. Pàg. 163-197.

Week 5. The “golden age” of Europe’s economic growth
5.1. Explanations of Europe’s “golden age”.
5.2. The European “model”.
Bibliografia
ALDCROFT, D. The European economy, 1914-2000. Cap. 5. “Western Europe’s sustained expansion”. Pàg. 128-162.
EICHENGREEN, B. The European economy since 1945. Cap. 7. “The Apex of the Golden Age”. Pàg. 198-224.
KIRBY, W. “Industrial and structural change” in: SCHULZE, M. S. (ed.). Western Europe. Economic and social change since 1945. Cap. 6. Pàg. 81-104.

Week 6. A different route for Eastern Europe
6.1. The creation of the Soviet economic bloc.
6.2. The transit from central planning to market economies.
Bibliografia
ALDCROFT, D. The European economy, 1914-2000. Cap. 6. “The Socialist economies of Western Europe”. Pàg. 163-187. Cap. 9. “Eastern Europe in transition”. Pàg. 245-268.

Week 7. Western Europe in the economic crisis of the 1970s
7.1. Monetary fluctuations, the oil crisis and social challenges.
7.2. The EEC and the economic crisis: inflation, divergence and enlargement.
Bibliografia
ALDCROFT, D. The European economy, 1914-2000. Cap. 7. “Western Capitalism in the 1970s”. Pàg. 188-210.
GRIFFITHS, R. T. “A Dismal Decade? European Integration in the 1970s” in: DINAN, D. (ed.). Origins and evolution of the European Union. Cap. 9. Pàg. 169-190.

Week 8. European monetary regionalism
8.1. From the end of Bretton Woods to the “snake”.
8.2. The European monetary system.
Bibliografia
EICHENGREEN, B. Globalizing Capital. Cap. 4. “The crisis of the dollar”. Pàg. 128-135. Cap. 5. “From floating to monetary unification”. Pàg. 128-166.
TSOUKALIS, L. The New European economy revisited. Cap. 7. “Building a Regional Currency System”. Pàg. 138-162.

Week 9. Economic policies and a new regional market for the 1980s
9.1. Liberalization, de-regulation and privatization.
9.2. The Single European Market.
Bibliografia
EICHENGREEN, B. The European economy since 1945. Cap. 11. “Integration and Adjustment”. I part. Pàg. 334-357.
TSOUKALIS, L. The New European economy revisited. Cap. 4. “From Customs Union to the Internal Market”. Pàg. 61-78. Cap. 5 “The Political Economy of Liberalization and Regulation”. Pàg. 79-113.

Week 10. The political economy of post-1989 Europe
10.1. European Monetary Union and Eastern enlargement.
10.2. The European economies at the turn of the century.
Bibliografia
EICHENGREEN, B. The European economy since 1945. Cap. 11. “Integration and Adjustment”. II part. Pàg. 357-378.
FAINI, R. “Europe: a continent in decline?” in: RHODE, P.; TONIOLO, G. (ed.). The Global Economy in the 1990s. Pàg. 69-88.
TSOUKALIS, L. The New European economy revisited. Cap. 8. “Towards Monetary Union”. Pàg. 163-186.

Bibliographical references
ALDCROFT, D. The European economy, 1914-2000. London/New York: Routledge, 4th ed, 2001.
ALDCROFT, D.; SUTCLIFFE, A. (ed.). Europe in the International Economy, 1500 to 2000. Cheltenham: Elgar, 1999.
CRAFTS, N.; TONIOLO, G. (ed.). Economic growth in Europe since 1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
DINAN, D. (ed.). Origins and evolution of the European Union. Oxford UP, New York, 2006.
EICHENGREEN, B. Globalizing capital. A History of the International Monetary System. Princeton UP, 1996.
EICHENGREEN, B. The European economy since 1945: coordinated capitalism and beyond. Princeton: Princeton U.P., 2006.
FOLEY, B. (ed.). European economies since the Second World War. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1998.
RHODE, P. W.; TONIOLO, G. (ed.). The Global Economy in the 1990s. A Long-Run Perspective. Cambridge UP, 2006.
SCHULZE, M. S. Western Europe. Economic and social change since 1945. London: Longman, 1997.
TSOUKALIS, L. The New European economy revisited. Oxford University Press, 1997.
VAN DER WEE, H. Prosperity and upheaval: the world economy 1945-1980. New York: Viking Press, 1986.