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Laurea magistrale in Marketing e comunicazione d'impresa - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Stage
6
F
-

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Final exam
15
E
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activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Final exam
15
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°

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S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

Teaching code

4S02513

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SECS-P/12 - ECONOMIC HISTORY

Period

Primo Semestre Magistrali dal Oct 2, 2017 al Dec 22, 2017.

Learning outcomes

The course intends to provide the fundamental elements required for an understanding of the international economic relationships which developed in the Modern and Contemporary Age. After an outline of the historical conditions and the motives underlying the expansion of Europe, the course investigates forms of organisation of production, trade and circulation of the characteristic goods from the different areas (Europe, America ...) in the 15th-20th centuries with particular emphasis on the problem of the structure of interregional and intercontinental trade routes.
The course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge in the field of Commerce History in order to acquaint historical events of the current market economy model and the comparisons among them.

Program

European Expansion: Historical Conditions and Economic Reasons.
Production and Trade from 15th to 18th Centuries: Goods, Traffic Routes, Financial and Commercial Organization.
Business tool used by business people in preindustrial age.
The features of commerce in the nineteenth century.
Intermational trades and European domination (1875-1914).
The international trade at the end of liberal capitalism.
The new layout of the international economy (1939-1953). The Bretton Woods system and its transformation.
The evolution of tne means of transport and the modes of comunication.
The evolution of sales networks.


TEXT BOOK:
R. Findlay, K. H. O'Rourke, Potere e ricchezza. Una storia economica del mondo, a cura di G. Conti, M. C. Schisani, UTET, Torino, 2017.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Findlay, O'Rourke, Potere e ricchezza. Versione ridotta UTET 2019

Examination Methods

The final exam will be an interview aiming at testing the students' overall knowledge by means of oral questions related to the required readings

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