2009/2010

2009/2010

DM270

SECS-P/12 (ECONOMIC HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION

INTEGRAZIONE ECONOMICA INTERNAZIONALE

1°

1st semester (21/09/2009 - 08/01/2010)

9

66 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

VIGO GIOVANNI (titolare) - 9 ECTS

The course aims to offer a global understanding of the economic history of the 20th century and discusses some major issues such as the crisis of international monetary systems, the Great Depression, economic policies in the 30s, Bretton Woods, the ‘golden age’ of world economy etc.

1. The world economy on the eve of First World War. 2. The economic and financial consequences of the First World War. 3. The International Monetary System: from the gold standard to its disintegration. 4. Economic trends in the 1920s. 5. The Wall Street crash and the Great Depression. 6. The causes and the consequences of the Great Depression. 7. The way out of the Great Depression. 8. The Second World War and the birth of a new economic order. 9. Bretton Woods 10. The Marshall Plan and the place of the United States in the world economy 11. The “golden age” of the world economy. Market and planned economies. 12. Economic integration in Europe and in other continents 13. Shocks and crises in recent decades of the 20th century. 14. Economy and globalisation.

Frontal classes

ORAL EXAMINATION