ECONOMIC HISTORY F - O
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Cosma Emilio Ernesto ORSICourse Structure
Lectures.
If the teaching is given in a blended mode or at a distance, the necessary variations may be introduced with respect to what has been stated previously, in order to comply with the syllabus set out in the syllabus.
If the teaching is given in a blended mode or at a distance, the necessary variations may be introduced with respect to what has been stated previously, in order to comply with the syllabus set out in the syllabus.
Required Prerequisites
Fair knowledge of modern and contemporary history. Awareness of the main facts that characterised the process of political, social and economic development over the past centuries (wars, epidemics, technological innovations, the social question, cultural, religious, technological and demographic revolutions).
Attendance of Lessons
ctures.
Attendance is not compulsory, but strongly recommended in order to better assimilate the course content.
Attendance is not compulsory, but strongly recommended in order to better assimilate the course content.
Detailed Course Content
Economic history. Society and economy in the pre-industrial period.
Economic development.
The premises of the English industrial revolution: population, agriculture, transport and trade.
Tractor industries and innovations in Britain.
The English industrial revolution: the problems.
The second: France and the United States. The stages of growth (1850-1914).
The conditions of growth: population, transport, banking and money. Production activities. The large enterprise.
The industrialised countries: Great Britain and France.
The high-growth countries: Germany and the United States.
Two special cases: Russia and Japan.
The economy of united Italy. Sicily between 1860 and 1914.
World War I and its consequences.
The Italian economy between the Great War and post World War I. Analysis of the situation in Sicily.
Advent of fascism and its impact in Sicily.
The Soviet Union. The Great Depression.
The policies against the depression.
The project to attack the latifundium of late fascism.
The international economy after 1950: demographic problems and productive sectors.
Reconstruction after World War II.
The Sicilian economy (1940-45). From the Golden Age to the crisis.
Neoliberalism and globalisation.
Development and underdevelopment.
The developed economies: the United States, Japan and the European Union.
The Sicilian economy (1940-45). From the Golden Age to the crisis.
The Italian economy. The Sicilian economy.
The end of the planned economy in the Soviet Union. The awakening of Asia. Latin America and Africa.
Textbook Information
1. E. De Simone, Storia economica. Dalla rivoluzione industriale alla rivoluzione informatica, FrancoAngeli, Milano 2014.
2. M. Colonna, Breve storia economica della Sicilia dal Medioevo ai nostri giorni, Book Sprint, 2016, pp. 108-133, 137-147, 164-192.
2. M. Colonna, Breve storia economica della Sicilia dal Medioevo ai nostri giorni, Book Sprint, 2016, pp. 108-133, 137-147, 164-192.
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Written exam
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Describe the context in which the English industrial revolution took place.
Describe the causes of Britain's relative decline.
The emergence of big business.
German economic development at the turn of the 19th and 20th century.
The modernisation of Japan.
Describe the causes and effects of the 1929 crisis.
The obstacles to Italy's economic development.
Describe The Economic Miracle in Italy (1950-1970).