ECON 227 European Economic History

From the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Topics include competing hypotheses in explaining cross-country differences in long-term economic growth; the formation, function, and persistence of institutions and organizations; the role of institutions and organizations, such as apprenticeship, servitude, partnerships, cooperatives, social networks, share cropping, and communes, as solutions to contractual problems; the economics of migration; the economics of the family. The use of economic theory in guiding hypothesis testing, the construction of new datasets, and the execution of empirical research.

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