*
CAMERON, R. and
NEAL, L. (2003), A
Concise History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the
Present.
*
CIPOLLA,
C. M. (1980). Before
the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700.
Tema 1. Neoclassical Predictions and Economic
History
1.2. The Heckscher-Ohlin Model.
1.3. New Institutional Economics.
(m) 1.3. COASE, R. H. (1937),
“The Nature of the Firm”.
Economica, 4(16): 386-405.
(m) 1.3. NORTH, Douglass C.
(1991). Institutions.
(m) 1.2. O’ROURKE, Kevin and Jeffrey WILLIAMSON. (2002). “The
Heckscher-Ohlin model between 1400 and 2000: when it explained
factor price convergence, when it did not, and why,” in
Tema 2. Barriers to Globalization
2.2. Institutions and Property Rights.
2.3. Agency and Enforcement.
2.2. ACEMOGLU, D.; JOHNSON, S. and ROBINSON, J. (2005). “The Rise of
(m) 2.3. GREIF, A. (1992), "Institutions
and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution."
American Economic Review, 82 (2), pp.
*2.1. MASSCHAELE, J. (1993). “Transport Costs in Medieval
2.2. NORTH, D. C., (1989), “Institutions and Economic Growth: An Historical
Introduction,” World Development, 17 (9):1319-1332.
(m) 2.2. NORTH, D. C., and WEINGAST, B. R. (1989). “Constitutions
and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public
Choice in Seventeenth-Century
3.2. Political Barriers to Growth and Trade.
3.3. Commodity Market Integration.
(m)*3.1. ATACK, J. and PASSELL,
P. (1994), A New Economic View of American History: from
Colonial Times to 1940,
*3.1. CAMERON, R. and NEAL, L. (2003), A Concise History of the
World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present.
(m) 3.2.
DE LONG, B., and, SHLEIFER, A. (1993). “Princes and Merchants:
3.2.
EPSTEIN, L. (2000). Freedom and growth: The rise of states
and markets in Europe, 1300-1750,
(m) 3.3. O’ROURKE, K. and WILLIAMSON, J. (2002). “After
3.3. FINDLAY, R. and O’ROURKE, K. (2003), “Commodity market
integration, 1500-
*3.1. WALTON, G. M. (1971), “The New Economic History and the Burden
of the Navigation Acts,” Economic History Review, 24,
2nd series (4): 533-542.
4.2. Money and Banking.
4.3. Financial Markets.
*4.1. GARBER, P. M. (1990), “Famous first bubbles,” Journal
of Economic Perspectives, 4 (2):35-54.
(m) 4.3. HOFFMAN,
P.; POSTEL-VINAY, G. and ROSENTHAL, Jean-Laurent (1992). “Private Credit Markets in
*4.1. NEAL, L. D. (1990). "How the South Sea Bubble
was blown up and burst: A new look at old data," in E.N.
White (ed.) Crashes and Panics. Business
One Irwin.
(m) 4.3. NEAL, L. D. (2000). “How
it all began: the monetary and financial architecture of
(m)* 4.1. TEMIN, P. and VOTH, Hans-Joachim
(2004). “Riding the
4.3. WOLF, N. and VOLCKART, O. (2006). “Estimating Financial Integration in the Middle
Ages: What can we learn from a TAR-model?” Journal of Economic
History, 66(1):122-139.
II.
MODERN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC HISTORY
This second part of the course covers the
economic history of the globalization process during 19th
and 20th centuries. The manual (m=mandatory reading)
for this part II of the course is:
(m) BORDO, M.; TAYLOR, A.;
WILLIAMSON J. G. (eds.) (2003): Globalization in Historical
Perspective, University of
Pages/chapters of books
from the readings recommended for the students’ presentations
(*) shall be agreeded in the Ofice Hours.
5.1. From
mercantilism to the first global era.
5.2. Industrialization in the Core: Trade Policies.
5.3.
*(m)O’ROURKE,
K.; WILLIAMSON, J. G. (2000):
“The Politics of Free Trade: Repeal of the Corn Laws”, in
O’Rourke, Williamson, Globalization and History, pp.77-92.
*(m)
FLANDREAU, M. (2006): “Does bilateralism promote trade? Nineteenth
century liberalization revisited” in http://www.econ.upf.edu/docs/seminars/flandreau.pdf
*PERSSON
(1999): Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900: integration and
deregulation, Cambriddge, CUP.
(m)
FOGEL, R.; ENGERMAN, S. (1974): Time on the Cross: The Economics
of American Negro Slavery. Boston: Little Brown.pp.
MORGAN,
K. (2000): Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy,
1600-1800. Cambridge, CUP.
SOLOW,
B. (ed.) (1991): Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System,
Cambridge, CUP.
6.2. Tariff
Barriers in Latin America.
6.3. The role
of the comodity lottery and implications for development and
inequality.
(m)*CLINGINGSMITH,
D.; WILLIAMSON, J. G. (2005): Mugal Decline, Climate Change,
and Britain’s Industrial Ascent. An Integrated Perspective on
India’s 18th and 19th Century Deindustrialization. Mimeo. http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/jwilliam/papers/w11730.pdf
*WILLIAMSON,
J. G. (2004): De-Industrialization and Underdevelopment: A comparative
Assesment Around the Periphery 1750-1939. Mimeo.
(m)
ACEMOGLU, D. et. Alt. (2002): “Reversal of Fortune. Geography
and Development in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution”
Quaterly Journal of Economics (4: 2002), 1231-94.
(m)
BLATTMAN, C.; CLEMENS, M. A., WILLIAMSON (2005): Who Protected
and Why? Tariffs the World Around, 1870-1938, Mimeo.
7.2. Convergence
and prices.
7.3. Money
and capital markets.
*HATTON,
T.; WILLIAMSON, J. G. (1998): The Age of Mass Migration: Causes
and Economic Impact, Oxford University Press.
(m)
O’ROURKE, K.; WILLIAMSON, J. G. (2002): “The Heckscher-Ohlin
model between 1400 and 2000: when it expanded
factor price convergence, when it did not, anhd why”,
in Findlay, R., Jonung, L.; Lundahl, M. (ed.):
Bertil Ohlin: A Centennial Celebration 1899-1999. MIT
Press. (library electronic ressource).
(m)
OBSFELD, M.; TAYLOR, A. (2003): “Globalization and Capital Markets”
in Bordo, M.D.; Taylor, A.M.; Williamson, J.G. (ed.) Globalization
in Historical Perspective. University of Chicago Press/NBER.
Pp. 121-190.
(m)
O’ROURKE, WILLIAMSON (2000): “Globalization, Relative Factor
Price Convergence and Inequality”, in
Globalization and History, MIT Press.
8.2. Regionalization
and the postwar order.
8.3. De globalization
from the periphery.
*(m)
TEMIN, P. (1989): Lessons from the Great Depression, MIT Press.
MARGLIN,
S.; SCHOR, J. (1991): The Golden Age of Capitalism, Oxford Clarendon.
*(m)
FRIEDMAN, M.; SCHWARTZ, A. (1971): A Monetary History of the
United States: 1867-1960, Princeton, Princeton University Press.
*(m)
KINDLEBERGER, C. P. (1957): The world in depression, 1929-1939,
Berkeley, Univerity of California Press.
*(m)
KEYNES, J. M.; (Activities 1929-1931): Rethinking employment
and unemployment policies, Macmillan, Cambridge, University
Press of the Royal Economic Society (selected pages).
*(m)
KEYNES, J. M., (Activities 1931-1939): World Crisis and Policies
in Britain and America, Macmillan, Cambridge, Univeristy press
of the Royal Economic Society (selected pages).
9.2. The new
impact of migration movements.
9.3. Globalization
and inequality as if all citizens mattered: the gender approach.
*DEVLIN,
R.; ESTEVADEORDAL, A.; RODRÍGUEZ-CLARE, A. (2006): The Emergence
of China. Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America and
the Caribbean, DRCLAS, Harvard University. Pp. 3-191.
(m)
HATTON, T.; WILLIAMSON, J. G. (2005): Global Migration and the
World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Pêrformance, MIT
Press.
*(m)
SALA-I-MARTIN, X. (2006): “The World Distribution of Income:
Falling Poverty and... Convergence period”, Quaterly Journal
of Economics, 121:2, may.
(m)
CAMPS, E.; CAMOU, M.; MAUBRIGADES, S.; MORA-SITJA, N. (2006):
“Globalization and wage inequality in South and East Asia and
Latin America: a gender approach”, mimeo.
10.2. When
and why do countires converge?
10.3. Does
globalization make the world more unequal?
10.4. Summary
of the programme: Does Globalization cause depressions?
*ALLEN,
R. (2001): “The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices
from Middle Ages to the First World War”, Explorations of Economic
History, october, pp. 411- 447.
(m)
BOURGUIGNON, F.; MORRISON (2002) “Inequality among World Citizens,
1820-
POMERANZ,
K. (2000): The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the making
of the Modern World Economy, Princeton.
*(m)
LINDERT, P. H.; WILLIAMSON, J. G. (2003): “Does Globalization
Make the World More Unequal” in Bordo, M.; Taylor, A.M.; Williamson,
J.G., Globalization in Historical Perspective, Cambridge Ma:
NBER.pp.227-278.
*VAN
ZANDEN, J. L. “Global Income Distribution and Convergence, 1800-
*(m)
ALLEN, R.; BASSINO, J. P.; MA, D.; MOLL-MURATA, C.; VAN ZANDEN
“Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in China,
Japan and Europe, 1738-
*EASTERLY,
W. (2007): “Was Development Assistance a mistake?” http://www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/dri/Easterly/File/Was_Development_Assistance_a_Mistake.pdf
*VILA-ARTADI,
E.; SALA-I-MARTIN, X. “The Economic Tragedy of the XXth Century:
Growth in Africa” http://www.econ.upf.edu/docs/papers/dowloads/684.pdf
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. For further details and instructions see
the following section.
- Final Exam (70%)