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Lecture: [MA-VI] [Vorlesung] [IAS/Wiwi/Agrar] Economic History I - Details
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Veranstaltungsname Lecture: [MA-VI] [Vorlesung] [IAS/Wiwi/Agrar] Economic History I
Untertitel The Rise of the Modern World and the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain 1760-1830
Semester WiSe 2023/24
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 27
Heimat-Einrichtung VWL, insb. Empirische Mikroökonomik
beteiligte Einrichtungen Institut für Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften, Institut für Geschichte, Juristische und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Veranstaltungstyp Lecture in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Montag, 16.10.2023 16:15 - 17:45, Ort: Raum 122 (ehemals 29) [WiWi]
Lernorganisation Starting in the winter term 2021, this lecture will be held in English. The main subject is the transition to the modern world during the Industrial Revolution, which first took place in Britain. We will address four guiding questions:
(1) What determined economic dynamics and stagnation in pre-industrial societies?
(2) Under which specific conditions could pre-industrial growth be transformed into modern growth?
(3) Why does the Industrial Revolution represent an epochal structural break only comparable to the Neolithic Revolution?
(4) How did the Industrial Revolution proceed? Why was Great Britain first?

- Outline of the lesson Economic History I
I. Pre-modern economy and demography: a Malthusian world
a) The Malthusian model: theory and reality
b) Pre-industrial agriculture: Ester Boserup’s theory of agricultural growth
c) The industrial economy before industrialization: a world according to the principles of Adam Smith
d) The transition to a modern economy: Escaping the Malthusian trap during the Post-Malthusian
period
II. The first industrial revolution 1760-1830 in Great Britain: causes and history
a) The growth of the English economy 1700-1860
b) ‘Why England first?’
c) Trade, the banking system and the state
d) Living standards and the social question

Requirements:
The lecture is part of study programmes in economics, agrarian sciences, international area studies, and history. The "Prüfungsleistung" in economics and agrarian sciences is a "Klausur", please contact Prof. Kopsidis. The "Prüfungsleistung" in IAS is also a "Klausur", please contact Prof. Fertig. There is no "Prüfungsleistung" in history; the written "Studienleistung" will consist of three session protocols, please contact Prof. Fertig.
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The main subject is the transition to the modern world during the Industrial Revolution, which first took place in Britain. We will address four guiding questions:
(1) What determined economic dynamics and stagnation in pre-industrial societies?
(2) Under which specific conditions could pre-industrial growth be transformed into modern growth?
(3) Why does the Industrial Revolution represent an epochal structural break only comparable to the Neolithic Revolution?
(4) How did the Industrial Revolution proceed? Why was Great Britain first?

- Outline of the lesson Economic History I
I. Pre-modern economy and demography: a Malthusian world
a) The Malthusian model: theory and reality
b) Pre-industrial agriculture: Ester Boserup’s theory of agricultural growth
c) The industrial economy before industrialization: a world according to the principles of Adam Smith
d) The transition to a modern economy: Escaping the Malthusian trap during the Post-Malthusian
period
II. The first industrial revolution 1760-1830 in Great Britain: causes and history
a) The growth of the English economy 1700-1860
b) ‘Why England first?’
c) Trade, the banking system and the state
d) Living standards and the social question

Requirements:
The lecture is part of study programmes in economics, agrarian sciences, international area studies, and history. The "Prüfungsleistung" in economics and agrarian sciences is a "Klausur", please contact Prof. Kopsidis. The "Prüfungsleistung" in IAS is also a "Klausur", please contact Prof. Fertig. There is no "Prüfungsleistung" in history; the written "Studienleistung" will consist of three session protocols, please contact Prof. Fertig.