Curricula and Syllabi in Economic History

Syllabus, lecture slides, and dissertation assignment from a course given in 2023 which uses Koyama and Rubin's 2022 book "How the World Became Rich."

PDF handout from a 2020-2021 course with detailed reading recommendations and links for 12 lecture topics.

This course overview covers Topics in economic history as taught in 2011 and 2018 by Prof. Andrew Seltzer of Royal Holloway, University of London. It covers subjects such as measuring living standards, economic growth, migration and the Great Depression. It provides brief details on the make-up of the course, as well as details of readings for specific topics. The file is no longer public, so this link goes to the Web Archive's copy.

Reading list, syllabus and some problem sets (without solutions) from a 2009 undergraduate course giving "a historical perspective on financial panics. Topics include the growth of the industrial world, the Great Depression and surrounding events, and more recent topics such as the first oil crisis, Japanese stagnation, and conditions following the financial crisis of 2008."

Part of the MITOpenCourseWare site, this course page details an undergraduate course in medieval economic history as taught in spring 2006 by Anne McCants. The course covers "the conditions of material life and the changing social and economic relations in medieval Europe with reference to the comparative context of contemporary Islamic, Chinese, and central Asian experiences". The website includes details of course readings, lecture handouts, syllabi from various years, assignment details and links to related Internet resources.