Courses
Historical Political Economy
This set of lecture notes is the backbone of an undergraduate course on Global Economic History. I will link to the slidedeck as I develop the material.
- Lecture 1: Introduction
- Lecture 2: The Malthusian Economy
- Lecture 3: Violence and Social Orders
- Lecture 4: The Origins of Agriculture
- Lecture 5: The Origins of the State
- Lecture 6: Ancient Empires
- Lecture 7: Classical Greece.
- Lecture 8: Ancient Rome
- Lecture 9: Ancient and Medieval China
- Lecture 10: The Islamic World
- Lecture 11: The Commercial Revolution
- Lecture 12: Feudal Political Economy
- Lecture 13: The Printing Press
- Lecture 14: The Protestant Reformation
- Lecture 15: The “Counter-Reformation” and the Spanish Inquisition
- Lecture 16: The Rise of the Modern Nation-State
- Lecture 17: The Development of Representative Institutions
- Lecture 18: The Dutch Golden Age
- Lecture 19: The Origins of Political Liberalism
- Lecture 20: The British Industrial Revolution
- Lecture 21: Catching Up, Falling Behind
- Lecture 22: Back in the U.S.S.R.
- Lecture 23: The East is Red
- Lecture 24: America in the Twentieth Century
Various Talks and Lectures
