Экономическая история Нового и Новейшего времени в глобальном контексте

2025/2026

Статус: Дисциплина общефакультетского пула

Кто читает: Департамент теоретической экономики

Где читается: Факультет экономических наук

Когда читается: 3 модуль

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Преподаватели: Климанов Алексей Юрьевич

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 40

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Abstract

The purpose of the course is to give students a thorough understanding of economic development in historical dynamics and geographical variety till the beginning of the XXI-st century. This course is devoted to study of industrial and post-industrial societies. Students study long-term trends and critical stages of leading countries’ economic progress, distinct features of their economic life and economic culture. Upon the successful conclusion of the course, students should be able to understand the main types of reforms and economic transformations that took place in the past and to assess structural and institutional shifts in retrospect, using the experience of these events in creating analytics of current economic processes.

Learning Objectives

Assess factors contributed to rise of leading economies in global economy throughout history;
Describe prerequisites and countries features in their transition to a modern economic growth;
Know the main economic ‘revolutions’, their correlation with territorial expansion, scientific and technological progress;
Evaluate the main factors of economic backwardness, dynamics of catching-up and peripheral economic development throughout history;
Correlate specific phenomena, processes and institutions with large-scale economic periods and reforms;
Make use the experience of historical and economic past to apply knowledge in future professional activities; 
Know the main directions of economic policy of leading countries at the post-industrial stage.

Expected Learning Outcomes

 describe prerequisites and countries features in their transition to a modern economic growth;  know the main economic ‘revolutions’, their correlation with territorial expansion, scientific and technological progress;  evaluate the main factors of economic backwardness, dynamics of catching-up and peripheral economic development throughout history;  correlate specific phenomena, processes and institutions with large-scale economic periods and reforms;
 assess factors contributed to rise of leading economies in global economy throughout history;  describe prerequisites and countries features in their transition to a modern economic growth;  know the main economic ‘revolutions’, their correlation with territorial expansion, scientific and technological progress;  evaluate the main factors of economic backwardness, dynamics of catching-up and peripheral economic development throughout history
 know the main economic ‘revolutions’, their correlation with territorial expansion, scientific and technological progress;  evaluate the main factors of economic backwardness, dynamics of catching-up and peripheral economic development throughout history;  correlate specific phenomena, processes and institutions with large-scale economic periods and reforms;
 correlate specific phenomena, processes and institutions with large-scale economic periods and reforms;  make use the experience of historical and economic past to apply knowledge in future profes-sional activities;
 evaluate the main factors of economic backwardness, dynamics of catching-up and peripheral economic development throughout history;  correlate specific phenomena, processes and institutions with large-scale economic periods and reforms;  make use the experience of historical and economic past to apply knowledge in future profes-sional activities;  know the main directions of economic policy of leading countries at the post-industrial stage.
 correlate specific phenomena, processes and institutions with large-scale economic periods and reforms  make use the experience of historical and economic past to apply knowledge in future profes-sional activities
 - correlate specific phenomena, processes and institutions with large-scale economic periods and reforms  - make use the experience of historical and economic past to apply knowledge in future profes-sional activities;
 evaluate the main factors of economic backwardness, dynamics of catching-up and peripheral economic development throughout history  correlate specific phenomena, processes and institutions with large-scale economic periods and reforms;  make use the experience of historical and economic past to apply knowledge in future profes-sional activities;  know the main directions of economic policy of leading countries at the post-industrial stage.
 evaluate the main factors of economic backwardness, dynamics of catching-up and peripheral economic development throughout history;  correlate specific phenomena, processes and institutions with large-scale economic periods and reforms;  make use the experience of historical and economic past to apply knowledge in future profes-sional activities;
 correlate specific phenomena, processes and institutions with large-scale economic periods and reforms;  make use the experience of historical and economic past to apply knowledge in future profes-sional activities;  know the main directions of economic policy of leading countries at the post-industrial stage

Course Contents

Prerequisites for the Formation of a Capitalist Economic System
Relations between Asian and Western countries in Modern History
Formation of an Industrial Society in Great Britain
Formation of an Industrial Society in the USA
Global Economy and Transformation of the United States into a World Power
The Great Depression (1929–1933) and Alternative Ways Out of the Crisis
Main Trends and Models of Economic Growth of Leading Countries after World War II
Economic Development of Countries of the ‘Third world’ in the Second Half of the XX-th Century
National ‘Economic Miracles’ in the Second Half of the XX-th Century
Global Processes and the Transitional Economy of the Russian Federation

Assessment Elements

A midterm 60-minutes written quiz
A midterm 60-minutes written quiz
An end-of-course written exam

Interim Assessment

2025/2026 3rd module
0.2 * A midterm 60-minutes written quiz + 0.2 * A midterm 60-minutes written quiz + 0.6 * An end-of-course written exam

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

A concise economic history of the world : from Paleolithic times to the present, Cameron, R., 1997
A concise economic history of the world : from Paleolithic times to the present, Cameron, R., 2003
A concise economic history of the world : from Paleolithic times to the present, Neal, L., 2016
Acemoglu, D., & Robinson, J. A. (2012). Why Nations Fail : The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Vol. [International version]). New York: Profile Books. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1478395
Chinese economic performance in the long run, Maddison, A., 2007
Contours of the world economy, 1-2030 AD : essays in macro-economic history, Maddison, A., 2007
Economic growth in the West : comparative experience in Europe and North America, Maddison, A., 2010
Global economic history : a very short introduction, Allen, R. C., 2011
The British industrial revolution in global perspective, Allen, R. C., 2009
The Cambridge economic history of Latin America. Vol.2: The long twentieth century, , 2006
Without consent or contract : the rise and fall of American slavery, Fogel, R. W., 1994

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Comparing welfare states, , 2002
Economic Development in the Third World, Todaro, M. P., 1989
Fleckenstein, T., & Lee, S. C. (2017). Democratization, post-industrialization, and East Asian welfare capitalism: the politics of welfare state reform in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy, 33(1), 36–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2017.1288158
Jeffrey G. Williamson. (2011). Trade and Poverty : When the Third World Fell Behind. The MIT Press.
Laderman, C. (2021). The Gun, the Ship & the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the making of the Modern World. History Today, 6, 99–101.
Maddison Angus Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History [Book]. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Maddison, A. (2007). Chinese economic performance in the long run / [Angus Maddison]. Paris: OECD. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.27340203X
Metcalf, Barbara Daly; Metcalf, Thomas R. A Concise History of Modern India. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 364. ISBN: 978-1-107-02649-0, 978-1-107-67218-5, 978-1-139-20780-5, 978-1-139-52649-4, 978-1-139-52769-9, 978-1-139-52888-7, 978-1-139-53116-0, 978-1-139-54047-6, 978-1-283-57506-5. URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=977222.
Naughton, B. (2007). The Chinese Economy : Transitions and Growth. The MIT Press.
Perestroika (1987–1999) ; Перестройка (1987–1999). (2015). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.953E9DB3
Peter Temin. (1994). The Great Depression. NBER Historical Working Papers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.p.nbr.nberhi.0062
The origins of American international retailing:Tiffany of New York in London and Paris, 1837-1914. (2017). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.5955A3E8
World on the move : consumption patterns in a more equal global economy, Hellebrandt, T., 2016

Authors

KLIMANOV ALEKSEY YUREVICH

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