Learning objectives
a) Knowledge and comprehension abilities
The student will learn and understand the economic, social, institutional and political- regulatory processes that characterize the European economy development since medieval time to the present.
b) Ability to use knowledge and comprehension
The student will use the studied issues to understand the economic processes complexity, also with regard to the other disciplines.
c) Judgment autonomy
The student will be able to evaluate the economic processes and develop a critical analysis of the powerful factors that characterize their evolution.
d) Communicative skills
The student will get a lexical and conceptual property essential for the education and the communication of a triennial student in economic issues.
e) Ability to learn
The student will try out a “traditional” didactic method founded on frontal lessons. However will be there a large recourse to iconographic sources.
Prerequisites
None
Course unit content
The course retraces the evolution of European economies from the late medieval time to the present and it is organized in two modules.
The first module underlines and analyze – with a diachronic perspective – some big themes concerning the evolution of economies and economic institutions to mark out an efficacious introduction to the questions treated by other disciplines.
The second module outlines the economic evolution since the industrial revolution to the contemporary, underlining the economic, social and cultural transformations caused by industrialization and economic development. The second part of the course will deal with the growing integration of international economy, to the technical innovations and to the contemporary economic sectors changes.
Full programme
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Bibliography
A. Di Vittorio (a cura di), Dall’espansione allo sviluppo. Una storia economica d’Europa, Torino, Giappichelli, 2011 (3ª edizione).
Teaching methods
Traditionals
Assessment methods and criteria
Written test
a) The knowledge and comprehension abilities will be check by 2 open-ended questions. These questions will be organized in: (i) a general part of 15 points worth and (ii) a part relating to the case-studies of 15 points worth.
b) The ability to implement knowledge will be check by the analysis of the answers concerning the case-studies of the 2 open-ended questions.
c) The judgment autonomy and the learning ability will be check by the analysis of the general part of the 2 open-ended questions.
d) The ability to communicate with a technical and right language will be check verifying the vocabulary used in the written answers and the tendency to clarify the meaning of the technical words used.
Other information
Possible other readings will be communicated at the beginning of the course
2030 agenda goals for sustainable development
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