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