Finance and Growth from a Historical Perspective

1 Course Unit

This course focuses on the interception between finance and economic growth by studying some of the most important events in economic history that have taken place over the last few centuries. Starting with the emergence of the modern capital markets and economic growth, the course examines in depth, major developments in financial history, such as the classical gold standard, the origins of central banking, the Great Depression, and the Bretton Woods system. However, this course goes beyond any standard course on financial history and examines how finance has affected economic growth in the long-run, from an international perspective and starts in the seventeenth century in Europe, up to the 1990s in South-East Asia. Fall or Spring Prerequisite: ECON 2100 AND (ECON 2200 OR FNCE 1010) AND ECON 2300 AND (MATH 1400 OR MATH 1070) AND (MATH 1410 OR MATH 1510 OR MATH 1080) 1 Course Unit