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Most of us have a limited understanding of the powerful role economics has played in shaping human civilization. This makes economic history - the study of how civilizations structured their environments to provide food, shelter, and material goods - a vital lens through which to think about how we arrived at our present, globalized moment.
Designed to fill a long-empty gap in how we think about modern history, these 48 lectures are a comprehensive journey through more than 600 years of economic history, from the medieval world to the 21st century. Aimed at the layperson with only a cursory understanding of the field, An Economic History of the World since 1400 reveals how economics has influenced (and been influenced by) historical events and trends, including the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, the Industrial Revolution, the European colonization of Africa, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the birth of personal computing. Professor Harreld has crafted a riveting, centuries-long story of power, glory, and ideology that reveals how, in step with history, economic ideas emerged, evolved, and thrived or died.
Along the way, you'll strengthen your understanding of a range of economic concepts, philosophies, trends, treaties, and organizations, including the mercantile system, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, Marxist economics, African independence movements, and the formation of economic organizations including the European Union. You'll also consider provocative questions about the intersection of history and economics. What did the economies of Roosevelt's America and Hitler's Germany have in common? What does history tell us about how nations should dictate economic policy? Can we say that free trade is truly free?
Marvel at just how much we still have to learn about the economic forces that have dictated our past - and that will dictate our future.
Download An Economic History of the World since 1400 Audible Audio Edition Donald J Harreld The Great Courses Books
"Most popular economic history books tend to be about various ideologies and their founders/proponents. Even as they discuss the key economic events, the focus rarely shifts away from pitching great ideas against each other. This course does a little bit of that, but its value is in distilling the same events to provide the genesis of numerous economic facets of modern life; these are constructs that we take for granted but they are utterly artificial whose coming into being have been impacted societies for centuries as the best of scientific and other discoveries.
Factories and shop-floors, firms as legal entities, banks and financial markets, central banks and fiat currencies, trade unions to taxes, civil laws, deficit funding, consumerism, equities/debt to structured products and so much more - constituents of modern economic life have a fascinating background as these lectures highlight. One may not agree with many of the conclusions as Prof Harreld often makes sweeping judgements while attributing the success/failures of certain societies or practices or ideologies that are anything but academic. The treatment of the subjects is also uneven: superficiality turns more evident as one zips past the massive twentieth-century events with massive conclusions without remotely adequate explanations.
Overall, definitely worth a listen for the backdrops to our economic life but be wary of an offputing treatment of more common economic events, concepts and personalities."
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An Economic History of the World since 1400 Audible Audio Edition Donald J Harreld The Great Courses Books Reviews
- Most popular economic history books tend to be about various ideologies and their founders/proponents. Even as they discuss the key economic events, the focus rarely shifts away from pitching great ideas against each other. This course does a little bit of that, but its value is in distilling the same events to provide the genesis of numerous economic facets of modern life; these are constructs that we take for granted but they are utterly artificial whose coming into being have been impacted societies for centuries as the best of scientific and other discoveries.
Factories and shop-floors, firms as legal entities, banks and financial markets, central banks and fiat currencies, trade unions to taxes, civil laws, deficit funding, consumerism, equities/debt to structured products and so much more - constituents of modern economic life have a fascinating background as these lectures highlight. One may not agree with many of the conclusions as Prof Harreld often makes sweeping judgements while attributing the success/failures of certain societies or practices or ideologies that are anything but academic. The treatment of the subjects is also uneven superficiality turns more evident as one zips past the massive twentieth-century events with massive conclusions without remotely adequate explanations.
Overall, definitely worth a listen for the backdrops to our economic life but be wary of an offputing treatment of more common economic events, concepts and personalities.
