Political Economy Department
Subject: Economic History
Academic Year: 2017-2018
SYLLABUS
Topic 1. Economic history and its place in economic and historical sciences system
1.1. Notions and concepts
1.2. The beginnings and development of concerns for economic past
1.3. Romanian concerns on economic past research
1.4. Schools, trends and directions in economic past research
Topic 2. Anthropogeny and the beginnings of economic life
2.1. Earth and life in "Lucy era"
2.2. The beginnings of economic life
Topic 3. Anthropogeny and the beginnings of economic life
3.1. Economic necessity of exchange standards
3.2. Objects or moneys standards
3.3. Using metal monetary instruments and the appearance of coin
3.4. The beginnings of monetary frauds and monetary trade
Topic 4. Economy in classical antiquity
4.1 Patterns and general characteristics
4.2 Facts and economic innovations at Phoenicians
4.3 Facts and economic innovations in the Greek world
4.4 Facts and economic innovations in Rome and the Roman Empire
4.5 Facts and economic innovations in the crisis of the Roman Empire and the transition to the Middle Ages
Topic 5. From Antiquity to the Middle Ages
5.1 Features and general characteristics of the Byzantine economy
5.2 Civilization, trade and economic innovations trough the VII-XIII centuries at Arabs
5.3 General characteristics of medieval economy. Monetary trade and economic innovations in Western Europe
5.4 The Crusades and their economic consequences
5.5 Hanseatic League: first economic and euro regional meeting
Topic 6. The birth of capitalism and its influence on the economy
6.1: Definition and general characteristics
6.2 First forms of capitalist economic activity: sec. XI-XIII
6.3 First banking financial institutions. From the financial plutocracy to premodern medieval banks
6.4 Modern capitalist forms of organization in accounting and commercial law
6.5 International land and sea trade. Economic activities and innovations in XIV-XVI century
6.6 The great geographical expansion of capitalism and the beginnings of economic globalization
6.7 The emergence of the modern banking system and stock market. The first commercial and central banks
6.8 The first capitalist productive enterprises
6.9 Changes in social and political
Topic 7. Industrial Revolution and its impact on the economic
7.1 Industrial Revolution: Concept, chronology and premises
7.2 Industrial Revolution: progress, characteristics and consequences
Topic 8. Economy in the Twentieth Century
8.1 General characteristics of the economy in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century
8.2 World War I and its economic consequences
8.3 Facts and economic innovations between 1920-1929
8.4 The economic crisis of 1929-1933. From the Great Depression to the Second World War
8.5 World War II and its economic consequences
8.6 Postwar economic and political organization. International economic institutions. Economic Highlights of the Cold War
8.7 The Marshall Plan and the beginnings of western European economic cooperation
8.8 Golden Ages: 1945-1973
8.9 Market economy between recession and slow economic development: 1973-2000
8.10 European integration: 1945-2003
References:
1. Balog M., Bolovan I., Gräf R., Lumperdean, I. (coord), Population and Economy. Rural and Urban Instances , Cluj-Napoca, Ed. Presa Univeristară Clujeană, 2011.
2. Cameron, R., Neal, L., A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present, Oxford University Press, USA; 4 edition, 2002
3. Gombrich, Ernst H. A Little History of the World. Yale. UK and USA, 2005.
4. Lumperdean I., Salanţă M., Graf R., Istoria economie: prelegeri, bibliografie, întrebări şi teme de analiză. texte esenţiale, Cluj-Napoca, Ed. Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2009.
5. Lumperdean I., Salanţă M., Graf R., Wirtschaftsgeschichte eine einfuhrung, Cluj-Napoca, Ed. Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2006.
6. North, Douglass C., Thomas, R.P., The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, Cambridge University Press, 1976
Head of Department, Responsible of Subject
Associate Professor Elena-Dana Bako, Ph.D Associate Professor Mihaela-Daciana Rovinaru, Ph.D
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