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1001228 - STORIA ECONOMICA

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ID:
1001228
Duration (hours):
60
CFU:
10
SSD:
Economic History
Located in:
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Course Details:
Economic Sciences/Economico - giuridico Year: 2
Year:
2025
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Overview

Date/time interval

Primo Ciclo Semestrale (01/10/2025 - 05/12/2025)

Syllabus

Course Objectives

The course aims to achieve the following training objectives, expressed according to the Dublin Descriptors:


  1. (knowledge and understanding) knowledge and ability to understand the main lines of evolution of the international economic system and the economic dynamics linked to the most recent developments (globalization, economic crisis, Covid and energy crisis).
  2. (applying knowledge and understanding) ability to use the main economic categories in the analysis of historical facts and to understand and current problems of the economy, adopting a historical perspective.
  3. (making judgements) ability to collect and interpret data useful for determining judgements in an autonomous form on events affecting the economy and on economic phenomena affecting history.
  4. (communication skills) ability to communicate knowledge and information relating to the subject, to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.
  5. (learning skills) develop the skills in the sector necessary to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.




Course Prerequisites

Knowledge of the main international historical events


Teaching Methods

Lectures, seminars, exercises


Assessment Methods

The rating is in thirtieths: from 18/30 to 30/30 with honors, according to the following scheme:

 

30 - 30 with honors: complete, in-depth and critical knowledge of the course topics, excellent language skills, complete and original interpretative ability, full ability to independently apply the knowledge acquired;

26 - 29: in-depth knowledge of the course topics, good language skills, effective interpretative ability and the ability to independently apply the knowledge acquired;

24 - 25: knowledge of the course topics with a good level of learning, decent language skills, correct interpretative ability, ability to correctly apply most of the knowledge acquired;

21 - 23: adequate knowledge of the course topics, but lack of mastery of them, more than sufficient language skills, interpretative ability, limited ability to independently apply the knowledge acquired;

18 - 20: basic knowledge of the main topics, basic knowledge of technical language, sufficient interpretative ability, ability to apply the basic knowledge acquired; Insufficient: insufficient knowledge of the course topics.


Texts

For the general part: F. Amatori, A. Colli, Il mondo globale. Una storia economica, Giappichelli, Torino 2017.

For the special part: A. Graziani, Lo sviluppo dell’economia italiana. Dalla ricostruzione alla moneta europea, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2000.


Contents

The 6-cfu course includes exclusively a general part that has as its object the events and major transformations that have affected the global economy throughout history, with a particular focus on the modern and contemporary age;

the 10-cfu course includes, in addition to the general part just described, also a special part dealing with Italian economic history since the Unification of 1861, but centred above all on the period from the Second World War to the present day.


Main topics:


General section

From the Neolithic Revolution to the Urban Revolution. The characteristics of an agrarian economy. The economy in medieval times.The Silk Road and the Black Death. The great divergence. The small divergence. The demographic transition. Mercantilism. The industrial revolution. International monetary systems: the gold standard. The nineteenth century and the second industrial revolution. The first globalization. The great European emigration. The war economy. The post-war period. German hyperinflation. The Soviet Union and the socialist economy. The Wall Street Crash. The Keynesian Revolution. The Second World War. Bretton Woods and the Marshall Plan Reconstruction and economic miracles. The European project. Decolonization. The oil crisis. Monetarism and neoliberalism. The collapse of communism. German reunification. The EMS, the Maastricht Treaty and the euro. The subprime crisis and the European crisis.


Special section

The problems after the Unification. Liberalism and protectionism. The industrial triangle. The Great War: industrial mobilization. The economics of fascism. The post-war period and reconstruction. The cash register for the South. The economic miracle. The hot autumn. The great inflation and the terrorist emergency. Italy in the EMS. The Treasury-Bank of Italy divorce: public debt. The 1992 crisis. Towards the single European currency. Recent evolution.


Degrees

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Economic Sciences 
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People

People

FILOCAMO Andrea
AREA MIN. 13 - Scienze economiche e statistiche
Settore STEC-01/B - Storia economica
Gruppo 13/STEC-01 - STORIA DELL'ECONOMIA
Docenti di ruolo di IIa fascia
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