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Cursus: GKMVD16016
GKMVD16016
Elective A: Growth and Inequality, 1000-2000
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeGKMVD16016
Studiepunten (EC)5
Cursusdoelen
The aim of this course is to allow students to acquire:
- Knowledge of the origins, development and effect of institutions on a specific historical theme at an advanced level
- The ability to analyze the origins, development and effect of these institutions by applying appropriate theories, concepts and methods
Inhoud
This course presents an overview of the global processes which have occured over the past millenium culminating in the distribution of unequal economic prosperity found today. Already before 1800 several predominantly rural regions experienced a transition to a highly urbanized society where benevolent politics, market institutions, and new technologies facilitated economic growth and development. The course sketches these developments, and links them to the genesis of the Industrial Revolution, while highlighting different measures of growth and inequality. The second part of the course focuses on the diffusion of modern economic growth and institutional constellations to other parts of the world. The main aim of this course is to analyze this long-term process of economic and institutional change by distinguishing multiple theoretical perspectives on its ultimate and proximate causes, as well as the vast global inequalities that came with it.

 
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