National Research University – Higher School of Economics Department of History Syllabus of the course: “History of Economics and Economic Institutions” Master‟s program “Applied and Interdisciplinary History «Usable Pasts»” Authors of the syllabus: Elena Kochetkova, PhD, Senior lecturer, Department of History, School for Humanities and Arts, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg. Email: [email protected] Viktor Pál, PhD, International Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg. Email: [email protected] Approved by the manager of Applied and Interdisciplinary History Programme Office: Dilorom Akhmedzhanova, [email protected] «_28__»__August__________ 2018 Head of the program: Julia Lajus Saint-Petersburg, 2018 This syllabus cannot be used by other university departments and other higher education institutions without the explicit permission of the department of History ● Annotation This course aims at giving students a comprehensive overview of global economic and technological development and the social and environmental consequences of globalization. Based on the interdisciplinary approaches from economic and environmental history and the history of technology, the course examines key global transformations in a long duration (longue durée) perspective, and focusing on global economic changes since the Industrial Revolution. It, thus, discusses economic changes associated with the Great Divergence, and the complex history of technology, economy, and the environment of capitalist as well as right- and left wing authoritarian systems during the 20th century. Particular attention is given to the environmental impact of economic and technological changes in the era of the Anthropocene. The course does not aim at covering the whole historical process but is focused on the key turning processes and their connections. Discussing these themes, the course elaborates on the developments of institutions interpreting them in a broad sense as a set of practices and patterns of behavior. In so doing, we explore the regional differences and global similarities in how institutions function and discuss their impacts on economic developments. ● Scope of Use The course is based on interdisciplinary approaches combining the analytical instruments and explanations of technological and economic history. It tries to answer the question why some states have been considered successful in economic, technological and environmental terms, while other not. It presents students the social and environmental costs of economic and technological development with particular relevance to contemporary global issues. Stressing the enduring importance of interconnectivity of economic, technological, social and environmental systems, readings look at how global problems emerge, what shapes them, and how they impact societies on a global scale. ● Learning outcome: Upon completion of the course students should: ❏ have a good grasp of the way institutions affect historical developments ❏ have obtained a general overview of the key turning points in economic history ❏ have gained the skills of interdisciplinary research of economics, technological, and environmental history ❏ have developed the skills to express sophisticated and large-scale historical arguments both orally and in writing As a result of completing the course, students will develop the following competences: System competencies Code (RUS) Code (ENG) Competence description СК - 2 SC-2 Ability to generate concepts and theoretical models, to test new methods and tools for professional activities CK - 3 SC-3 Ability to master new research methods, and to transform his or her own professional profile Professional competencies Code (RUS) Code (ENG) Competence description ПК - 1 PC - 1 Ability to carry out research practices drawing on up-to- date research methodologies and knowledge in the humanities, social sciences and other relevant areas of scholarship ПК - 2 PC - 2 Ability to engage in interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration with scholars in relevant research areas in order to adequately address fundamental and applied research problems ПК - 3 PC - 3 Ability to read scholarly texts and to epitomize scholarly literature in foreign languages ПK - 24 PC - 24 Ability to analyze and solve philosophical, social and personal significant problems ПК - 25 PC - 25 Ability to build a professional career, business, and make choices, guided by the principles of social responsibility Personal and social competencies Code (RUS) Code (ENG) Competence description НИД - 2 NID - 2 Mastering, improvement and developing of theoretical and methodological approaches, research methods, methods of analysis in the field of study of the subjects of professional activity НИД - 4 NID - 4 Analysis and generalization of scholarly research according to the requirements of up-to-date historical scholarship ● Prerequisites, course type, role of the discipline within the structure of Master program This is an elective course taught in the first year of the master‟s program “Applied and Interdisciplinary History «Usable Pasts»”. The following knowledge and competences are needed to study the discipline: Upper- intermediate or advanced reading and speaking skills in English. ● Assessment Students‟ final grade will consist of: Class attendance: 20 % Class engagement: 20 % Essay (3 in total): 30% - after each three classes – by 20.10, 10.11, 10.12. Exam: 30 % ● Guidelines for Knowledge Assessment Students are to cover all the weekly readings. Grades will consider the originality of a student‟s answer, the use made of secondary sources, the quality of argumentation, and the form and structure of presentation. Attendance of lectures is also important for successful completion of the course. Course plan № Themes Total hours Lectures Seminars 1. Introduction: 2 2 Institutions and Economic History 2. Technology and 0 2 Economic Change 3. The Great 2 2 Divergence 4. Periphery, 2 2 Marginality, and Global Economic Inequality 5. Colonialism 2 2 6. Industrial 0 2 Revolution 7. Understanding 2 2 Socialism and its Economic Performance 8. Natural 0 2 Resources: Exploration, Exploitation, Dependence 9. Anthropocene 2 2 10. Economic 2 2 Development and Sustainability 11. Transfers, 0 2 Circulations, Globalisation and Economic Development 12. What Do We 0 2 Learn From Institutions? 40 16 24 Structure and content The course consists of eight lectures and 12 seminars and includes the following main sections: Lectures are connected to seminars thematically. List of seminars: Theme 1. Introduction: Institutions and Economic History -Douglas North,”Institutions” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 5, No. 1. 1991, pp. 97-112. Available at https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.5.1.97 Retrieved 20.08.2018 -Douglas North: Institutions – Nobel Prize Speech. Available at https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1993/north-lecture.html Retrieved 20.08.2018 Theme 2. Technology and Economic Change -Dittmar J. E., (2011) “ Information Technology and Economic Change: the Impact of the Printing Press” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 126, pp. 1133–1172 Theme 3. The Great Divergence -Robert C. Allen, “The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War”, Explorations in Economic History, Vol 38, October 2001: 411-47. -Joel Mokyr and Hans-Joachim Voth, Ch 1, “Understanding growth in Europe, 1700–1870: theory and evidence”, In The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe, Cambridge, 2010, pp. 7-42. Available at https://cpb-us- e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.northwestern.edu/dist/3/1222/files/2016/06/Understanding-growth-in- Europe-1700-1870-theory-and-evidence-2009-2e60fcj.pdf Retrived 06.07.2018 Theme 4. Periphery, Marginality, and Global Economic Inequality -Acemoglu, Daron and Robinson, A. James, Why Nations Fail. The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Business, 2012. (Ch 1, 4 and 15) Available at http://norayr.am/collections/books/Why-Nations-Fail-Daron-Acemoglu.pdf Theme 5. Colonialism Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., and Robinson, J. A. (2001). The colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation. American Economic Review, 91(5):1369–1401 Banerjee, Abhijit and Lakshmi Iyer, "History, Institutions and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India," American Economic Review 95 (4): 1190- 1213, 2005. Theme 6. Industrial Revolution Joel Mokyr, “The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth,” Journal of Economic History, 65 (2005), pp. 285-351. Peter Temin, “Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution,” Journal of Economic History 57, 1 (1997): 63-82. Theme 7. Understanding Socialism and its Economic Performance Hanson, Philip. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR from 1945. 2003 (Ch 9) Richard Vahrenkamp, “Coping with Shortage and Chaos: Truck Cargo Transport in the Eastern Bloc, 1950–1980”, Icon. Vol. 21 (2015), pp. 126-146 Renwei, Zhao. “Review of Economic Reform in China: Features, Experiences and Challenges.” China: Twenty Years of Economic Reform, edited by Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song, ANU Press, 2012, pp. 185–200. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt24hcx9.14 Theme 8. Natural Resources: Exploration, Exploitation, Dependence Högselius, Per. Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence, 2013,