Topics; the lectures in economic history and inequality
Lectures: Topics in economic history and inequality,
kalle Moene, Autumn 2017
August 23 Overview -- basic questions and approaches
- Why are some countries so rich and other so poor
- Class divisions and geographical cleavages
- The classical economists – inequality and development
Heilbronner, Ch. 1-4, Allen, Ch. 1-3; Neal & Cameron, Ch. 6-7
August 30 The first Escapes from the Malthusian trap
- Malthusian dynamics
- Black Death and other Plagues
- Make War not Love
Voigtlander and Voth. Gifts of Mars Warfare and Europe's early rise to riches. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(4):165{186, 2013a
Voigtlander and Voth. Malthusian dynamism and the rise of europe: make war, not love. The American Economic Review, 99(2):248{254, 2009
Allen ch 2; Neal & Cameron, Ch. 4-5
September 6 The Initial Accumulation and the industrial revolution
- Enclosure Movement
- Colonies
- What was The Industrial Revolution
- Why Europe and not China?
- Why Britain?
Allen ch 2 and 3, Neal ch 7, Allen ‘’The industrial revolution in miniature..’’,
September 13 Social and Economic Implications of the Industrial Revolution
- From Cottages to Factories
- Wages, Effort, and Destitution
- Machines and the political economy of the Luddites
- The Making of the Working Class and the rise Unions
Allen ch 4-5, Neal and Cameron ch 8, , Allen ‘’The industrial revolution in miniature..’’,
The Slave Trade and Slavery
The Rise and Fall of the Great Empires
The Americas
- Why so much Inequality
Africa
- Why always so Poor
The World Crisis
- Why?
- Implications: Authoritarian Regimes versus Social Reforms
The Rise of the Welfare State
- The Great Compression
- Europe
The Long Run Developments of Inequality
- Farms to Factories
- The Kuznets Curve in Historical Perspective—
- Top Incomes
The Rise (and Fall?) of Equality in Small Open Economies