Global Economic History - JEB133
Title: Global Economic History
Czech title: Global Economic History
Guaranteed by: Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (30)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: prof. PhDr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): prof. PhDr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D.
Bc. Markéta Malá, M.Sc.
Mgr. Martin Pácha, Ph.D.
Class: Courses for LLEP
Courses for incoming students
Incompatibility : JPB332
Is incompatible with: JPB332
Examination dates   WS schedule   Noticeboard   
Annotation -
The economic history as a field combining economics and history leads students to in-debt and better understanding of individual economic processes in connection with the political and social development of society. The course offers the modern method of global economic history - comparing the economic development throughout the 20th century across different cultural and geopolitical areas, in which various models of growth broke through and the everchanging global economic conditions had different effects. Economic proccesses in the national and transnational scope will be incorporated into lectures as well as some of the subdisciplines of economic history: the history of commerce, the history of industry and agriculture, the history of money and banking, the history of transport, the history of labour and the history of science, business history, social history and the historical demography. The course will also introduce students to traditional and modern methods of economic history on the one hand and with classical and latest economic history texts on the other.
Last update: Doležalová Antonie, prof. PhDr. Ing., Ph.D. (25.09.2024)
Descriptors -

Schedule of Classes

 

  1. 3.10. Introduction: Challenges for EconHist Today
  2. 10.10. Historiography of Economic History 
  3. 17.10. Overview of Economic History of the World from the Ancient time to the modern era (19th Century) 
  4. 24.10. Homework
  5. 31.10.Why Britain? Industrialization of the World and the Wealth of Nations  
  6. 7.11. Economic Inequality and the Great Divergence  
  7. 14.11. Four Horsemen of Apocalypse: Wars, Revolutions, Pandemics, and Crises (Economic, Environmental) in Economic History 1 ze 4 skupin stránek  ze Sheidela
  8. 21.11. Ideology Matters: Capitalism vs Socialism 
  9. 28.11. Money Matters: Economic History of Banking and Monetary Politics 
  10. 5.12. Charity Matters: Economic History of Social Transfers and Taxation 
  11. 12.12. Overview of Economic History of the Czech Republic (Bohemian Lands, Czechoslovakia) 
  12. 19.12. Concluding discussion

 

Last update: Doležalová Antonie, prof. PhDr. Ing., Ph.D. (02.10.2024)
Literature -

ALLEN, Robert C.. Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011. 170 s. ISBN 978-0-19-959665-2 

BEREND, Ivan T.. An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 356pp. ISBN 13-978-0-521

BEREND, Ivan T.. An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 521pp. ISBN 978-1-107-68999-2

BOLDIZZONI, Francesco, HUDSON, Patricia (eds). Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History.  Rutledge 2016

CAMERON, R., A Concise Economic History of the World… Oxford University Press 1989, 437pp.

NORTH, D. C.. Understanding the Process of Economic Change. Princeton University Press, 2010. 208 s. ISBN: 978-0-69-114595-2

PERSSON, Karl G., An Economic History of Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 253pp. ISBN 978-0-521-54940-0

TEICHOVA, Alice - MATIS, Herbert (eds.). Nation, State and the Economy in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 450 s.  ISBN 978-0-521-28313-7.

Last update: Bednařík Petr, PhDr., Ph.D. (06.06.2020)
Requirements to the exam -

Grading policy:

A…100-91

B… 90-81

C… 80-71

D… 70-61

E… 60-51

F… 50 - 0

 

Total grade will depend on:

Attendance: 1 point per week (10 weeks evaluated, 10 points max) 

Activity during the term (30 points max., 3 points per week max.;  10 weeks evaluated)

Exam: disputation on compulsory reading (60 points)

 

Minimal number of 51 points to successfully pass the subject is divided as follows:

25  points activity in seminars (Points for the attendace will be included)

26 points for exam/ disputation

 

While lectures are not compulsory at Charles University,  your attendance is highly recommended since some part of any lecture will be dedictated to discussion on compulsory reading. 

Last update: Doležalová Antonie, prof. PhDr. Ing., Ph.D. (02.10.2024)
Syllabus -

 

 

Last update: Doležalová Antonie, prof. PhDr. Ing., Ph.D. (02.10.2024)