Course: Globalization and History (5210-441)

Persons:

• Prof. Dr. Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer (verantwortlich)

Type of Course:

lecture

In-Class Hours Per Week:

2

Contents:

This course provides an introduction to the history of the international economy over the past two centuries, and asks: What were the political and technological underpinnings of increased trade, capital and labour flows during the period; what were the effects of these flows on income distribution within countries; and what political responses did they provoke? What can explain the deglobalisation experienced in the years between 1914 and 1945? What, if any, were the connections between globalization and convergence? Between globalization and growth?

Literature:

Findlay, O’Rourke (2007) Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium. Princeton Economic History of the Western World,

K.H. O’Rourke and J.G. Williamson (1999), Globalization and History: The Evolution of a 19 Century Atlantic Economy

More literature will be announced in the lecture.

Location:

Hohenheim

Module:

• 5210-440 Globalization and History (compulsory)
• 1201-510 Economics for Earth System Science (compulsory)