Lecture Notes and Short Texts in Economic History
Free online course intended for 28 hours of study, with materials downloadable in a variety of formats. This is at OpenLearn's Level 2 ("intermediate") and "looks at how Keynes's theories revolutionised thinking about the causes of crises and unemployment."
Lecture outlines for a module taught at University of Missouri-Kansas City, published in 2010.
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.
This is the archived page of a Fall 2004 seminar series featuring external speakers invited to the University of California, Berkeley, with embedded links to some of their papers in .pdf. This link is to Archive.org's copy of the site.
This course web page includes links to antitrust web material, assignments and PowerPoint slides (in PDF) on the topics of: biological living standards, measuring economic welfare, the second great migration, technology and the economy, and ten points of "Time on the Cross". This link is to Archive.org's copy of the site.
Extensive notes on Acemoglu and Robinson's lectures on institutional political economy as applied to development, which form a prototype for their recent book on 'Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy.' Makes extensive use of economic models, but text should also be of interest to economic historians, political economists and political scientists.
Ten essays on money and its role in the course of history, based on themes from Glyn Davies' book 'A History of Money' (University of Wales Press). The site includes a detailed chronology through 2002. Essay titles include "Inflation and the Pendulum Metatheory of Money" and "Third World Money and Debt in the Twentieth Century".
Electronic edition of this book, which collects Keynes' essays aimed at the lay public, written from 1919 to 1931. It includes his commentary on post-WWI war debts, on the gold standard and its alternatives, and his speculative "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren". Each essay or column is its own bookmarkable page.
