Teaching
Courses
Global Economic History
This set of lecture notes is the backbone of an undergraduate course on global economic history and political economy. I will link to the slidedecks as I develop the material.
- 1. The Malthusian Economy
- 2. Violence and Social Orders
- 3. The Neolithic Revolution
- 4. The Origins of the State
- 5. Ancient Empires
- 6. Classical Greece
- 7. Ancient Rome
- 8. Ancient and Medieval China
- 9. The Islamic World
- 10. The Commercial Revolution
- 11. Feudal Political Economy
- 12. The Printing Press
- 13. The Protestant Reformation
- 14. The Rise of the Modern Nation-State
- 15. The Development of Representative Institutions
- 16. The Dutch Golden Age
- 17. The Origins of Political Liberalism
- 18. The British Industrial Revolution
- 19. Catching Up, Falling Behind
- 20. Life and Death in the People's Republics
- 21. America in the Twentieth Century
The Economics of the Law
This set of lecture notes is the backbone of an undergraduate course on law and economics. Many of them have multiple parts. I will link to the slidedecks as I develop the material.
- 1. The Economics of Property
- 2. The Economics of Torts
- 3. The Economics of Contracts
- 4. The Economics of Dispute Resolution
- 5. The Economics of the Legal System
- 6. The Economics of Crime and Punishment
- 7. The Economics of Legislation and Regulation
- 8. The Economics of Seemingly Absurd Legal Systems