Lehrveranstaltung: The Industrial Revolution and the Roots of Modern Growth (5210-282)

Personen:

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

Lehrform:

Vorlesung mit Übung

SWS:

3

Inhalt:

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.

Literatur:

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

Weiterführende Literatur wird in der Vorlesung bekannt gegeben.

Veranstaltungsort:

Hohenheim

Modul:

• 5210-280 The Industrial Revolution and the Roots of Modern Growth (Pflicht)