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Topics in Non-American Economic History
A “Great Books” Approach
J. Bradford DeLong :: Hans-Joachim Voth
Spring 2017 :: UC Berkeley
delong@econ.berkeley.edu
joachimvoth@gmail.com
https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1456908
http://tinyurl.com/20170131c
Readings:
Jan 17
: Organization Meeting
Jan 24
: Philip Hoffman:
Why Did Europe Conquer the World?
http://amzn.to/29qmfd7
•
scene-setter: Brad DeLong
http://tinyurl.com/dl20170131a
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rapporteur: David Schönholzer
Jan 31
: Peter Temin and Joachim Voth:
Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Bank and England’s
Financial Revolution after 1700
http://amzn.to/29kqXMc
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scene-setter: Joachim Voth
http://tinyurl.com/dl20170131b
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rapporteur: Brad DeLong
Jan 31:
Discuss revision of reading schedule…
Feb 7
: Lawrence Katz and Claudia Goldin:
The Race Between Education and Technology
http://
www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/claudia-goldin-and-larry-katz-the-race-between-education-
and-technology-the-economic-history-research-frontier-a-great-rec.html
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scene-setter: Zach Bleemer
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rapporteur:
Feb 14:
Robert Allen:
From Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrialization
Experience
http://amzn.to/29lo36h
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scene-setter:
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rapporteur:
Feb 21: No Class
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Feb 28
:
Robert Gordon:
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living
Since the Civil War
http://amzn.to/29q7WX9
, chapters
1-7, 12-13 and 16-18
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scene-setter: Rick Holman
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rapporteur:
Mar 7
: Robert Allen:
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
http://amzn.to/
29kOUhz
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scene-setter:
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rapporteur:
Mar 14
: Richard Baldwin
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New
Globalization
http://amzn.to/2icGZHV
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scene-setter:
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rapporteur:
Mar 21
: Ian Morris:
Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They
Reveal About the Future
http://amzn.to/29AVKTj
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scene-setter:
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rapporteur:
Apr 4
: Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson:
Unequal Gains: American Growth and
Inequality since 1700
http://amzn.to/29xpaVm
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scene-setter:
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rapporteur:
Apr 11
: Barry Eichengreen:
Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and
the Uses-and Misuses-of History
http://amzn.to/29pp429
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scene-setter: Barry Eichengreen
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rapporteur:
Apr 18
: Yuval Noah Harari:
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
http://amzn.to/2j4tkHj
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scene-setter: Joachim Voth
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rapporteur:
Apr 25
: Sven Beckert:
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
http://amzn.to/2jrdin8
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scene-setter: Brad DeLong
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rapporteur:
Requirements:
This course will provide students with an introduction to the research frontier in economic
history by studying a carefully curated list of recent books in the fi eld. We will undertake a
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critical reading of these books, focusing on both their strengths and weaknesses. General
questions will include the following. Does the topic justify a book-length treatment? Does the
author successfully sustain his/her argument throughout the book? What is the role of books, as
opposed to articles, in research in economic history (and in economics more generally)?
Supplementary readings are provided to point up this last question. Most sessions will be student
led, in that students will take charge of presenting the author’s argument and stimulating
classroom discussion.
Requirements for the course are three, and grades for the semester will attach equal weights to
the three components. First, doing the readings, attending meetings and participating in class
discussions. Second, leading a class meeting devoted to a book. Third, submitting a 10- page
memo at the end of the semester describing three potential research ideas loosely based on topics
discussed in the course of the semester.
Extras:
Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus (2012)
:
The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric
Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
(Cambridge: Harvard University
Press: 0674416772)
http://amzn.to/2js3VHw
Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff:
Economic Development in the Americas since 1500:
Endowments and Institutions.
http://amzn.to/29pRxlx
http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/
stanley-engerman-and-kenneth-sokoloff-economic-development-in-the-americas-since-1500-
endowments-and-institutions-the-econ.html
Steven Radelet:
The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing Worl
d
http://www.bradford-
delong.com/2016/07/steven-radelet-the-great-surge-the-ascent-of-the-developing-world-the-
economic-history-research-frontier-a-great-recent-b.html
http://amzn.to/29rguNR
Gavin Wright: Sharing the Prize:
The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American
South
http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/template-gavin-wright-sharing-the-prize-the-
economics-of-the-civil-rights-revolution-in-the-american-south-the-economic-h.html
http://
amzn.to/29pmIQV
Richard von Glahn:
The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/richard-von-glahn-the-economic-history-of-china-
from-antiquity-to-the-nineteenth-century-the-economic-history-research-fro.html
http://amzn.to/
29jBkwt
Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
:
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History
,
70-1492
http://amzn.to/2aKTV3X
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Peter Temin (2012):
The Roman Market Economy
http://amzn.to/2b72BG6
William Goetzmann, Money Changes Everything
,
de Cecco on State Capacity
,
Stasavage,
Taxing the Rich
,
Wrigley, Coal
…
People:
Brad DeLong
delong@econ.berkeley.edu
Joachim Voth
joachimvoth@gmail.com
Joshua Ceribelli
josh.ceribelli@berkeley.edu
Maximilian Mueller
mwmueller@berkeley.edu
David Schönholzer
david.s@econ.berkeley.edu
Zach Bleemer
zach@bleemers.com
Paul
Vertier
paul.vertier@sciencespo.fr
Lydia Assouad
lydia.assouad@gmail.com
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Oeystein Vik
oystein.n.vik@gmail.com
Oeyvind Stangeland
os@berkeley.edu
Beate Skjaeveland
beateskj@gmail.com
Avir Waxman
avirwaxman@berkeley.edu
Hu Wangyin
huwangyin@gmail.com
—
David Koll
david.koll@eui.eu
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