Economic and Business History (1 º Sem 2019/2020)

Introduction - From a world of multiple self-sufficient economies to a world of a single self-sufficient economy

Chapter 1 - The economy of the world before modern economic growth;
Chapter 2 - Modern economic growth: an overview;
Chapter 3 - The beginnings of modern economic growth (late eighteenth and early nineteenth century);
Chapter 4 - Consolidation of modern economic growth (mid-nineteenth century);
Chapter 5 - The first globalization and the beginnings of the contemporary world economy (late nineteenth and early twentieth century);
Chapter 6 - The times of globalization backlash (the world wars and the period between the world wars of the twentieth century);
Chapter 7 - The times of the division of the world economy and society (third quarter of the twentieth century);
Chapter 8 - The second globalization and the world economy of the early twenty-first century;
Chapter 9 - The future of the world economy: sustainability and development in the twenty-first century.