Course 2014-2015 a.y.

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CLMG (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/12) - M (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/12) - IM (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/12) - MM (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/12) - AFC (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/12) - CLAPI (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/12) - CLEFIN-FINANCE (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/12) - CLELI (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/12) - ACME (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/12) - DES-ESS (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/12) - EMIT (6 credits - II sem. - OP  |  SECS-P/12)

Course Director:
ANDREA COLLI

Course Objectives

The course aims to offer a broad analysis of the development of the international system during the XX Century. So, it focuses on the pattern of global capitalism, as it appeared before the First World War, when it collapsed. Then, it discusses the period between the wars, when the boundaries of the various national economies were restored, until a profile of a new international economy emerged after the Second World War, culminating in the great expansion of the last two decades of the century.

The course is intended to offer a non-deterministic view of globalization, describing its irregular march in history and showing the continuous interplay of economic forces and political institutions which lays at its roots.

Finally, the accent is put on the dynamics of historical change which characterized last century.

Course Content Summary

• The Short Golden Age of Global Capitalism (1896-1914).
• The Institutions of the Old Global Economy.
• Economic Consequences of the First World War.
• The Collapse of the Established Order.
• The Turn toward Autarky.
• The Frontier of New Social Democracy.
• The Reconstruction of the World after the War.
• The Bretton Wood System in Action.
• Decolonization and Development.
• The Diffusion of Socialism.
• The Crisis of Bretton Wood.
• The Emergence of a New Global Capitalism.
• Rich Countries, Poor Countries: a World of Inequality.
• Global Capitalism in Trouble.
• Concluding Remarks.

Detailed Description of Assessment Methods

For attending students

Written exam at the end of the course.

 

Fon non attending students

Written exam consisting of two partial exams; the first one has to be taken in the middle of the course and the second at the end.

 

Partial exams are valid untill the end of the current academic year.

Textbooks

Attending and non attending students have to prepare the whole textbook:

• J.A. FRIEDEN, Global Capitalism. Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century, New York, Norton, 2006.

Exam textbooks & Online Articles (check availability at the Library)

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