ECON 4524-002: Economic History of US
»Fall 2009 Syllabus
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Essay Questions - Exam 1
Long Essay with Answers - Exam 1
Short Essay with Answers - Exam 1
Long Essay Questions - Exam 2
Lectures
- Lecture 1 - Why Isn’t the Whole World Wealthy?
- Lecture 2 - The Market for Moving People to America
- Lecture 3 - Economics of Slavery in the United States
- Lecture 5 - The Economics of the Civil War
- Lecture 6 - American Demography - Births, Deaths and Health
- Lecture 7 - Domestic Migration and Immigration
- Lecture 8 - The Transformation of the American Economy: 1870-1910
- Lecture 9 - Post Civil War Financial System
- lecture 10 - The South and Black Progress
- Lecture 11 - Contractual Mix in Southern Agriculture
- Lecture 12 - Debt Peonage
- Lecture 13 - Northern Agriculture after the Civil War
- Lecture 14 - Railroads and Economic Growth
- Lecture 15 - The Rise of Big Business
- Lecture 16 - The West and Natural Resources
- Lecture 17 - World War I
- Lecture 18 - The Twenties
- Lecture 19 - The Great Depression
- Lecture 20 - The Great Depression and Money
- Lecture 21 - The Great Depression and the New Deal
- Lecture 22 - World War II and the US Economy
- Lecture 23 - The South After World War II
- Lecture 24 - Growth of Government
- Lecture 25 - The Erosion of Checks and Balances, Argentina
- Lecture 26 - Political Institutions, Policy Outcomes and Economic Growth
Readings
- Issues in Postbellum Southern Agriculture, Chapter 9
- The South after the Civil War, Chapter 14
- Northern Agricultural Development after the Civil War, Chapter 15
- The Great Depression, Chapter 21
- The Great Depression, Chapter 22
- The Sources of Big Government, Higgs, Chapter 1
- How Much Has Government Grown?, Higgs, Chapter 2
- On Ideology as an Analytical Concept in the Study of Political Economy, Higgs, Chapter 3
- Crisis, Bigger Government, and Ideological Change, Higgs, Chapter 4
- Property Rights and the State
- Paternalism in Agricultural Labor Contracts in the US South: Implications for the Growth of the Welfare State
- Departing From the Road towards a Belief in a System of Checks and Balances in Argentina: Electoral Fraud in the 1930s and the Rise of Peron
- Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes And Policy Outcomes In Brazil
