Studying at the University of Verona
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Study Plan
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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.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
History of Economic and Territorial Development (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S001452
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SECS-P/12 - ECONOMIC HISTORY
Period
secondo semestre magistrali dal Feb 24, 2020 al May 29, 2020.
Learning outcomes
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 within the SME territory.
11. Environmental issues and economic growth. Some degrowth theories. Sustainability and Economic equilibrium.
BOOKS:
D. Acemoglu, J. Robinson, Perché le nazioni falliscono. Alle origini di prosperità, potenza e povertà, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 2013.
M. De Cecco, L’economia di Lucignolo, opportunità e vincoli dello sviluppo italiano, Roma, Donzelli, 2000
J. Cohen e G. Federico, Lo sviluppo economico italiano 1820-1960, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001.
E. Felice, Ascesa e declino. Storia economica d’Italia, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2015 (capitoli da concordare col docente).
J. Huizinga, La crisi della civiltà, Pgreco edizioni, 2012
D.N. McCloskey, I vizi degli economisti, le virtù della borghesia, IBL Libri, 2014.
T. Piketty, Il capitale nel XX secolo, Milano, Bompiani, 2014.
G. Roverato, L’industria nel Veneto: storia economica di un caso regionale, Padova, Esedra, 1996
J. Schumpeter, Teoria dello Sviluppo Economico, Milano, Rizzoli Etas, 2002
G. Toniolo, L’Italia e l’economia mondiale dall’Unità a oggi, Venezia, Marsili, 2013.
Examination Methods
The final examination will be provided orally. Students are requested to discuss at least two books from the above displayed list, and to write a short paper (around 40.000 characters spaces included) on a topic of their interest, chosen between those presented in the course.
Final grade will be settled as following: 65% oral examination; 25% paper; 10% teacher's evaluation based on student's personal participation to e-learning's and class' discussions.
