An Economic History of the World Since 1400

Professor Biography
Table of Contents
Course Scope
Lecture 1—Self-Interest, Human Survival, and History
Lecture 2—Marco Polo, China, and Silk Road Trade
Lecture 3—Manorial Society in Medieval Europe
Lecture 4—How Black Death Reshaped Town and Field
Lecture 5—Late-14th-Century Guilds and Monopolies
Lecture 6—European Discovery Routes: East and West
Lecture 7—1571: Spain, Portugal Encircle the Globe
Lecture 8—Old World Bourses  and Market Information
Lecture 9—The Europeans’ Plantation Labor Problem
Lecture 10—Adam Smith, Mercantilism, State Building
Lecture 11—British and Dutch Joint-Stock Companies
Lecture 12—Europe, the Printing Press, and Science
Lecture 13—The Industrious Revolution: Demand Grows
Lecture 14—Why Didn’t China Industrialize Earlier?
Lecture 15—18th-Century Agriculture and Production
Lecture 16—Industrial Revolution: The Textile Trade
Lecture 17—British Coal, Coke, and a New Age of Iron
Lecture 18—Power: From Peat Bogs to Steam Engines
Lecture 19—A Second Industrial Revolution after 1850
Lecture 20—Family Labor Evolves into Factory Work
Lecture 21—Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Modern Firm
Lecture 22—19th-Century Farm Technology, Land Reform
Lecture 23—Speeding Up: Canals, Steamships, Railroads
Lecture 24—European Urbanization and Emigration
Lecture 25—Unions, Strikes, and the Haymarket Affair
Lecture 26—Banks, Central Banks, and Modern States
Lecture 27—Understanding Uneven Economic Development
Lecture 28—Adam Smith’s Argument for Free Trade
Lecture 29—Middle-Class Catalogs and Mass Consumption
Lecture 30—Imperialism: Land Grabs and Morality Plays
Lecture 31—World War I: Industrial Powers Collide
Lecture 32—Russia’s Marxist-Leninist Experiment
Lecture 33—The Trouble with the Gold Standard
Lecture 34—Tariffs, Cartels, and John Maynard Keynes
Lecture 35—Japanese Expansionism: Manchurian Incident
Lecture 36—U.S. Aid and a Postwar Economic Miracle
Lecture 37—Colonialism and the Independence Movement
Lecture 38—Japan, the Transistor, and Asia’s Tigers
Lecture 39—The Welfare State: From Bismarck to Obama
Lecture 40—The End of American Exceptionalism?
Lecture 41—Middle East: From Pawn to Power Broker
Lecture 42—Germany, the European Union, and the Euro
Lecture 43—Free Trade: Global versus Regional Blocs
Lecture 44—Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the Soviet Decline
Lecture 45—Half the World Left behind in Poverty
Lecture 46—China, India: Two Paths  to Wealth Extremes
Lecture 47—The Information Economy: Telegraph to Tech
Lecture 48—Leverage with Globalization in Its Grip
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