Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

The 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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2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2017/2018

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3° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019

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Teaching code

4S003356

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SECS-P/12 - ECONOMIC HISTORY

Period

Semester 2 dal Feb 26, 2018 al Jun 9, 2018.

Learning outcomes

This course is a survey of modern and contemporary world Economic History. What students will learn during the course will be useful in order to understand today's societies and economy, by placing these into their historical path, in a global and long run perspective.

Program

Which economic process characterised the modern and contemporary age? What's the connection between industrialisation and the economic development of the West? What's the relation between capitalism, globalisation and economic crises?
The course will try to answer to these and other questions by analysing the main matters of the modern and contemporary economic history. The aim of the course is to analyse the different aspects of the economic development since the late XVIII century to the beginning of the third millennium.

This course will deal with the following topics:

Productive and labour organisation
* the industrial revolutions in Europe
* Industrialisation outside Europe
* business organisation and development

The connection between capitalism, crisis and economic policies
* the evolution of finance
* XX c. economic crises and the war economy
* State intervention into national economies

New economies
* Europe: from post-war development to the crisis
* the Asiatic rise
* the boundaries of the economic development


Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
L.F. Signorini, I. Visco L’economia italiana Il Mulino 2002 Solo per non frequentanti
Vera Zamagni Perché l’Europa ha cambiato il mondo. Una storia economica Il Mulino 2015 9788815258618 A esclusione dei capitoli 1 e 2. Sia per frequentanti che non frequentanti.

Examination Methods

Attending students:
Written exam: three open questions.

Not attending:
Written exam: three open questions.

In order to pass the exam, all three answers need be sufficient. Every answer can obtain a maximum of 10 points (with a minimum threshold of 6 point as pass mark).

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE