CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC HISTORY
Stampa
Anno immatricolazione
2015/2016
Anno offerta
2016/2017
Normativa
DM270
SSD
SECS-P/12 (STORIA ECONOMICA)
Dipartimento
DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI UMANISTICI
Corso di studio
STORIA D'EUROPA
Curriculum
MEDIEVALE
Anno di corso
Periodo didattico
Primo Semestre (26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)
Crediti
6
Ore
44 ore di attività frontale
Lingua insegnamento
ENGLISH
Tipo esame
ORALE
Docente
RIZZO MARIO VALENTINO (titolare) - 9 CFU
Prerequisiti
None
Obiettivi formativi
The course aims at providing students with an up-to-date understanding of the main aspects and trends of the world economy in the late 19th, 20th, and early 21st centuries.
Programma e contenuti
The course aims at providing students with an up-to-date understanding of the main aspects and trends of the world economy in the late 19th, 20th, and early 21st centuries. Attention will be focused in particular on the crucial interaction between socio-economic, demographic, geopolitical, and strategic factors which play a pivotal role in shaping contemporary history and strongly affect the performances of national economies.

A short summary of the main topics to be covered in the course includes:

An early globalization, 1880-1914
Change and continuity after the wars: prosperity and crisis in a rebuilt world economy
Beyond Western capitalism: planned economies, the Far East, the Third World
Globalization, the New Economy, and all the rest, 1988-2009
From rags to riches? BRICs and beyond
What's next? Megatrends and game-changers in the coming decades [only for MEFI students]
Metodi didattici
Lectures
Testi di riferimento
Marco CATTINI, The Making of Europe. A Global Economic History, Milano, EGEA, 2010, pp. 164-171, 182-191, 218-305
GOLDMAN SACHS GLOBAL ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT, BRICs and Beyond, 2007, pp. 5-57, 73-181, 225-268 (on line)
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL, Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds, December 2012, pp. i-xvi, 1-16, 20-47, 63-67, 83-97 (on line) [only for MEFI students]
Modalità verifica apprendimento
Oral exam
Altre informazioni
The first part of the course (44 hours) is common to MEFI, MIBE, and MEGI students, whereas the final part (22 hours) is only for MEFI students. Clearly, MIBE and MEGI students can attend also the last 22 hours, but they will not be examined on this part of the programme.

ECTS: 9 for MEFI students, 6 for MIBE and MEGI students.

Exam grade average: 28.2
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile