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Laurea magistrale in Marketing e comunicazione d'impresa - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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History of Economic and Territorial Development (2022/2023)
Teaching code
4S001452
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SECS-P/12 - ECONOMIC HISTORY
Period
Primo semestre (lauree magistrali) dal Oct 3, 2022 al Dec 23, 2022.
Location
VERONA
Learning objectives
The course mainly aims to support the attitude to consider the economic development as a complex issue, surely not determined only by quantitative factors, on the opposite greatly influenced by non-economic factors, widely cultural, such as religion, ethics, geography, technology, history, demography etc. The course discusses some interpretations based on relevant economic history and economic recent contributions.
Program
1. Definition of economic development. Economic development considered as a cultural process. Robert J. Barro and J. Huizinga.
2. Capital accumulation and the pursuing of the eternal life in the Middle Age. Its social and economic organization.
3. Some relevant cases of social utopia in the 19th and 20th Century. The Soviet communism in the U.S.S.R and some other countries. A concluded experiment?
4. Inclusive economic institutions and economic policies as a determinant of economic growth (UK, USA, Japan, West Europe).
5. Selective economic institutions and economic policies as a determinant of nation’s decline and failure (Mexico, USSR, China).
6. Culture and civilization: some paradigmatic case in Latin America.
7. Economic development in Asia: the cases of China, Japan and south Korea.
8. Bourgeois virtues: W. Sombart and D. McCloskey.
9. Patterns of economic development in Veneto and in the area of Verona.
10. The cluster’s pattern of economic development and its consequences for the SME territory.
11. Environmental issues and economic growth. Some degrowth theories. Sustainability and Economic equilibrium.
Bibliography
Learning assessment procedures
The examination is conducted orally.
Points of discussion include the methodology for understanding economic development, as presented in the lectures and in the examination texts.
The student will then individually discuss a topic of their choice from the History of Economic and Territorial Development, agreed upon with the instructor and presented in a written report of at least 10-12 typed pages.
Evaluation criteria
Demonstrating personal critical interpretative abilities represents the most significant evaluation criterion.
Consistency in active participation is, of course, an element that is highly regarded
Criteria for the composition of the final grade
Knowledge of the facts 30%
Personal critical abilities 30%
Attendance and interest 20%
Clarity and richness of presentation 20%
Exam language
italiano inglese