Course: The Roots of Modern Growth (5210-292)

Persons:

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

Type of Course:

lecture with exercise

In-Class Hours Per Week:

3

Contents:

This course provides an introduction to the roots of modern economic growth and asks: Why are some countries rich and others poor? Why did the industrial revolution first take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Why did some countries industrialise at all and why did others fail. What explains convergence and divergence of nations? We will study these questions from a theoretical and historical perspective.

Literature:

Acemoglu, Daron. Introduction to modern economic growth. MIT press, 2009.

Allen, Robert C. The British industrial revolution in global perspective. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Further literature will be announced in the lecture.

Location:

Hohenheim

Module:

• 5210-290 Advanced Module Historical Economics (compulsory)