Lee Alston - ECON 8534 Class

ECON 8534: Economic History of North America

»Fall 2011 Syllabus

Readings

I. Methods and Materials of Economic History

II. Land and Instiutions in the Colonial and Early National Periods

III. Migration to America

IV. Slavery

V. Tenancy, 'Coerced' Labor, and Debt Peonage

VI. Technological Change and Economic Growth

VII. Property Rights to Resources

VIII. Early Business Organizations/Corporations and Corruption

IX. Regulation

X. The Great Depression and the New Deal

XI. Innovation

XII. The Growth of the U.S. Government and World War II