Economic History

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course introduces students to the subject matter and methods of the economic approach to studying the past. Students will learn how quantitative data and economic logic can help historians frame and answer certain historical questions. Readings and examples from economic historians will represent various schools of thought and will address salient questions in world history. This is a seminar course, which means that instruction is mainly discussion-based. The course will also include historical workshops – class periods in which students have the opportunity to engage with historical material hands-on, to discover and debate the meaning of the traces of the past. No prior course in economics is required.