ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS HISTORY
- Anno accademico
- 2024/2025 Programmi anni precedenti
- Titolo corso in inglese
- ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS HISTORY
- Codice insegnamento
- ET0122 (AF:472511 AR:259330)
- Modalità
- In presenza
- Crediti formativi universitari
- 6
- Livello laurea
- Laurea
- Settore scientifico disciplinare
- SECS-P/12
- Periodo
- 3° Periodo
- Anno corso
- 3
- Sede
- VENEZIA
- Spazio Moodle
- Link allo spazio del corso
Inquadramento dell'insegnamento nel percorso del corso di studio
Risultati di apprendimento attesi
2. Gli studenti riconoscono e descrivono i più importanti cambiamenti economici, industriali e organizzativi che hanno avuto luogo dall'età moderna alla contemporaneità
3. Gli studenti spiegano le dinamiche economiche storiche come frutto dell'interazione di diverse variabili
4. Gli studenti identificano il ruolo delle istituzioni come regole del gioco della vita economica e d'impresa e sono in grado di identificare i principali cambiamenti nella struttura e nelle strategie di impresa
5. Gli studenti commentano e dibattono dei casi di studio e sono capaci di analizzarli alla luce del contesto storico di riferimento, delle fonti utilizzate per ricostruirli e della metodologia
Prerequisiti
Contenuti
1. Introduction to the course and rules of the game (3.2)
a. A Malthusian world
2. The Firm in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (4.2)
a. Workshops, guilds and boats
b. The privileged firm in the Early Modern Period
3. The road to the First Industrial Revolution (5.2)
a. Proto-industrialization markets, firms and workers
b. From Malthus to Adam Smith.
Reading: Amatori-Colli (31-39); Amatori-Colli, eds. (1-45).
WEEK 2
4. The Industrious Revolution and the Industrial Revolution (10.2)
a. The entrepreneur of the first industrial revolution
b. The factory as an organizational revolution. A Marxian or a Marshallian world?
5. The Great Divergence during the First Industrial Revolution (11.2)
a. The Great Divergence: Why the West Grew Rich?
b. Diffusion of the First Industrial Revolution. Ricardian rules, List’s reactions.
6. Presentation – Josiah Wedgwood and the First Industrial Revolution or August Thyssen and German Steel (12.2)
Reading: Allen (1-40); Amatori-Colli (40-58); Chandler (70-85)
WEEK 3
7. The rise of the modern large corporation (17.2)
a. The railways and the rise of the modern corporation
b. US ascendancy
8. First globalization, British decline and the Second Industrial Revolution (18.2)
a. First globalization, British Empire and freestanding companies.
b. Germany and the Second Industrial Revolution. A Schumpeterian world
9. Presentation - Rolls-Royce and the Rise of High-Technology Industry or Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan and the Three Phases of Marketing (19.2)
Reading: Allen (40-113); Amatori – Colli (59-98); Chandler (85-120)
WEEK 4
10. The American Century and big firms (24.2)
a. Multidivisionalisation
b. Multinationalisation
11. Catching-up Century (25.2)
a. The Soviet solution: big firms without market
b. The East Asian solution: the State promoting exports and business groups
12. Presentation: Toyoda Automatic looms and Toyota automobiles or 7-Eleven in America and Japan (26.2)
Reading: Allen (114-147); Amatori – Colli (123-147, 161-182); Chandler (120-133)
WEEK 5
13. Second globalization and third and fourth technological revolutions (3.3)
a. The neoliberal turn and third technological revolution
b. The triumph of free trade, second globalization and China’s miracle
14. The dollar, the euro and financial capitalism (4.3)
a. The fourth technological revolution: platforms and consumer worlds
b. The US Dollar, the Euro, bitcoins and financial instability
15. Presentation: IBM and the Two Thomas J. Watson or The Deutsche Bank (5.3)
Reading: Amatori – Colli, eds. (317-331)
WEEK 6
16. EXAM PREPARATION (10.3)
Testi di riferimento
Robert C.Allen, Global Economic History. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2011
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Selected chapters or extra support from:
Amatori, Franco & Andrea Colli, Business History. Complexities and Comparisons, London, Routledge, 2011.
Amatori, Franco & Andrea Colli, eds., The Global Economy. A concise history, London, Routledge, 2019 and Torino, Giappichelli, 2017.
Chandler, Jr., Alfred D., “The United States: The Evolution of Enterprise”, in Peter Mathias and M.M.Postan, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, vol. VII, The Industrial Economies: Capital, Labour and Enterprise. Part 2, The United States, Japan, and Russia, Cambridge University Press, 1978, pp. 70-123.
Colli, Andrea, Dynamics of International Business. Comparative Perspectives of Firms, Markets and Entrepreneurship, Routledge, 2016.
Jones, Geoffrey, Multinationals and Global Capitalism. From the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First Century, Oxford University Press, 2004.
McCraw, Thomas, Creating Modern Capitalism, Harvard University Press, 1997.
Neal, Larry and Jeffrey Williamson, eds., The Cambridge History of Capitalism, Vol. II, The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Jesús Valdaliso & Santiago López, Historia económica de la empresa, Crítica, Barcelona, 2007.
With the exception of Allen’s volume, all used materials will be available through Moodle –articles, chapters and other materials.
All presentation readings come from Thomas McCraw book.
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