課程資訊
課程名稱
經濟史一
Economic History (Ⅰ) 
開課學期
102-1 
授課對象
社會科學院  經濟學系  
授課教師
魏凱立 
課號
ECON3007 
課程識別碼
303E20010 
班次
 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期一6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
上課地點
社科6 
備註
本課程以英語授課。
總人數上限:50人 
Ceiba 課程網頁
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1021ecohis1 
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課程概述

This class is taught in English. The two semester are independent and can be taken separately. The first semester deals with early economic history focusing primarily on Asia. During this semester we will deal with broad issues concerning how the human race came to dominate the planet using increase complex means of cooperation. The second semester covers the 20th-century. The focus will remain primarily on Asia. The second semester will have a more “practical” orientation. We will primarily discuss what has been causing modern economic growth. Given the broad subject matter, the course will only be able to offer a broad overview of the periods and economic regions covered.
The course will meet three hours, one day a week. Generally, there will be a lecture during the first hour that will give an overview of the subject matter to be covered that week. The second hour will usually be devoted to group work. Students will often be required to read one or two English-language papers (or book chapters) to prepare for this work. The last hour will often be a lecture on one or two particular subtopics. Grades will be based on group work (40%), a short paper (20%) and a final exam (40%). There is no text, but you will be responsible for the weekly readings and the PowerPoint lecture notes which will be posted on line.
A tentative schedule is offered below, but since this is the first time the course has been offered, changes will probably be made. Each semester will be divided into two roughly equal halves. The first half of the first semester will give an overview of the subject matter primarily by historic period while the first half of the second semester will give an overview of the subject matter by economy. The second halves of each semester will be organized topically. 

課程目標
Week 1 Introduction
Lecture 1: Course Introduction
Lecture 2: Agricultural & Urban Revolutions

Week 2 The Ancient Period
Lecture 1: The First Civilization
Lecture 2: Trade in the Near East
Reading: Sima Qian, “The Money Makers” Records of the Historian.

Week 3 The Classical Period
Lecture 1: The Economy of Buddhist India
Lecture 2: The Early Silk Road
Reading: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

Week 4 The Medieval Period
Lecture 1: The Islamic Economy
Lecture 2: The Medieval Agricultural Revolution
Paper: Excerpts from Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah

Week 5 China’s Economic Transformation
Lecture 1: The Tang Dynasty Economy
Lecture 2: The Song Dynasty Economy
Reading: Gernet, J (1995), “Chapter Four: Land and Dependents” in Buddhism in Chinese Society

Week 6 The Time of Troubles
Lecture 1: The Mongol Empires
Lecture 2: Problems of Disease & Climate
Reading: Fogel, R (2004), “Chapter 1: The Persistence of Misery in Europe and America before 1900,” in The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100.

Week 7 The Early Modern Period
Lecture 1: European Renaissance and Expansion
Lecture 2: The Dutch East Indies
Reading: Nunn N and N Qian (2010),”The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food and Ideas,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24(2): 163-188

Week 8 The Great Divergence
Lecture 1: The Rise & Fall of the Chinese Economy
Lecture 2: The European Industrial Revolution
Reading: Allen RC (2009), “Agricultural Productivity and Rural Incomes in England and the Yangtze Delta, c. 1620—c. 1820,” Economic History Review, 62(3): 525-550.

Week 9 The Age of High Imperialism
Lecture 1: British India
Lecture 2: Meiji Japan
Reading: Morck, R and M Nakamura (2007), “Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan’s Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth,” Enterprise & Society 8(3) 543-601.

Week 10 What Causes Long-Run Economic Growth?
Lecture 1: Factor Accumulation and Economies of Scale
Lecture 2: Dialectics, Path Dependence, Institutions and Culture
Reading: Angus Maddison statistics handout

Week 11 Labor: Free and Unfree
Lecture 1: Medieval Labor: Serfdom, Slavery and Guilds
Lecture 2: Plantation Economies
Reading: Van der Kraan, A (1983), “Bali: Slavery and Slave Trade,” in A Reid, ed., Slavery, Bondage and Dependency in Southeast Asia. New York.

Week 12 Women and Children
Lecture 1: The Problem of Patriarchy
Lecture 2: Women, Children and Industrialization
Reading: De Moor, T and JL Van Zanden (2010), “Girl Power: The European Marriage Pattern and Labour Markets in the North Sea Region in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period,” Economic History Review, 63(1): 1-33.

Week 13 Migrations and Diasporas
Lecture 1: Medieval and Early Modern Trade Diasporas
Lecture 2: The Great Modern Migrations
Reading: Turnell S and A Vicary (2008), “Parching the Land?: The Chettiars in Burma,” Australian Economic History Review, 48(1): 1-25

Week 14 Natural Resources
Lecture 1: Land and Water
Lecture 2: Mining
Reading: Heidhues, MS (2003), “Chapter Two: Chinese Society and the Dutch to the First Kongsi War,” in Golddiggers, Farmers, and Traders in the “Chinese Districts” of West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Week 15 Technology, Endogenous or Exogenous?
Lecture 1: Science and Technology in China
Lecture 2: Property Rights and Technology
Reading: Mokyr, J (2005), “The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth,” Journal of Economic History, 65(2): 285-351.

Week 16 Money and Capital
Lecture 1: A Short History of Money
Lecture 2: The Creation of Capital Markets
Reading: Schoenberger, E (2008), “The Origins of the Market Economy: State Power, Territorial Control, and Modes of War Fighting.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 50(3), 663-691.

Week 17 The Great Game
Lecture 1: Production, Predation and Protection
Lecture 2: Entrepreneurship, Creative and Destructive


 
課程要求
No knowledge of economics is required although some knowledge of basic economic principles would be useful. 
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Office Hours
另約時間 備註: I am around most of the time. Send an e-mail or test your luck by just dropping by. 
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課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
Week 1
09/09  Introduction 
Week 2
09/16  Theories of Stagnation & Very-Long-Run Growth 
Week 3
09/23  The Ancient Period  
Week 4
09/30  The Classical Period 
Week 5
10/07  The Medieval Period: The Islamic World  
Week 6
10/14  The Medieval Period: China 
Week 7
10/21  The Time of Troubles 
Week 8
10/28  The Early Modern Period  
Week 9
11/04  The Great Divergence  
Week 10
11/11  The Age of High Imperialism  
Week 11
11/18  Women & Children (+ Midterm Quiz) 
Week 12
11/25  Labor: Free, Unfree & Semi-Free 
Week 13
12/02  Migrations and Diasporas  
Week 14
12/09  Natural Resources 
Week 15
12/16  Capital Markets 
Week 16
12/23  Technology  
Week 17
12/30  Final Exam  
Week 18
01/06  The Great Game: Final Overview