Spring 2003: Economic History Reading Course

1. Basics

• Robert Bates and Avner Greif (1998), Analytical Narratives (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
• Massimo Livi-Bacci (2001), A Concise History of World Population (Oxford: Blackwell).
• Douglass North (1981), Structure and Change in Economic History (New York: Norton).
• Douglass North (1990), Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).

2. Europe Before the Industrial Revolution

• Carlo Cipolla (1980), Before the Industrial Revolution (New York: Norton).
• Jan de Vries and Ad van der Woude (1997), The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).

3. The European World Economy

• Kenneth Pomeranz (2000), The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of a Modern World Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
• Barbara Solow,ed. (1991), Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press).

4. The Coming of the Industrial Age

• NFR Crafts (1985), British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
• Joel Mokyr, ed. (1999), The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective (Boulder, CO: Westview Press).

5. Globalization

• Barry Eichengreen and Marc Flandreau (1997), The Gold Standard in Theory and History
• Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson (1999), Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy (Caqmbridge: MIT Press).

6. Background

• Landes, Diamond, Braudel?

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Potential Students:

• Rui Pedro Esteves <resteves@econ.Berkeley.EDU>

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