ECON 4524-001: Economic History of US
»Fall 2010 Syllabus
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Slides from 11/4 Justin Bucciferro lecture
Exams
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 4 - Political Economy of Emancipation
- 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
- Chapter 7 Alston and Mueller: "Property Rights and the State"
- Alston: "Issues in Postbellum Southern Agriculture"
- Atack and Passell: "The South After the Civil War"
- Bucciferro, Justin. "The Demographic History of Brazil"
- Atack and Passell: "Northern Agricultural Development after the Civil War"
- Libecap: "Property Rights in Economic History"
- Alston, Harris and Mueller: "De Facto and De Jure Property Rights"
- Atack and Passell: "The Great Depression: Explaining The Contraction"
- Atack and Passell: "The Great Depression, 1933-39: The Recovery?"
- Bucciferro: "The Economic Geography of Race in the New World"
- Higgs: "Wartime Prosperity?"
- Higgs: "The Sources of Big Government"
- Higgs: "How Much Has Government Grown?"
- Higgs: "On Ideology as an Analytical Concept in the Study of Political Economy"
- Alston and Gallo
- Alston, Melo, Mueller and Pereira
