2025/2026
Исторические основы экономического роста
Язык:
русский
Контактные часы:
28
Программа дисциплины
Аннотация
This course introduces recent studies on the historical origins of modern economic growth. It will focus both on theoretical models of transition to sustainable economic growth and their empirical applications, and try to shed light on the mechanics of economic development, structural change, technology diffusion, institutional changes, and other sources of income differences across countries.
Why some nations are rich and others are poor? What are the deep sources of long-run economic growth? To investigate these questions, we will overview trends in income, population, longevity, literacy and other development measures, and theories that aim to explain patterns in the data. The theoretical part of the course will proceed from the Unified growth theory that explains the mechanism of transition from stagnation to growth to the recent models of endogenous institutional changes and political economy of development.
In addition, the course presents modern empirical methods of causal inference that are widely used in various subfields of economics. Discussing academic papers that connect theoretical rigor with original empirical strategy will give students a taste for research in economics. Thus, a course can be viewed as a preparation to one’s own research project