Overview

Neolithic revolution, agriculture, formation of societies, river cultures, the fertile crescent.

Early empires, the ancient period , trade, China and Rome

The early medieval period: Europe as a periphery - China in the lead

The late medieval period: Population growth and decline, the plague, feudal relations, polycentric trade, Northern Italy, the Hansa, Gravity shift.

The Americas, explorers, price revolution, population growth, global economy, dynastic wars, mercantilism, nation state formation, enclosure, banking, Physiocrats.

Industrialization 1, the great divergence or the gap, political upheavals/revolution, Britain takes the lead (coal and railroads), The classical economists: Smith, Malthus & Ricardo, Colonies and cotton, Financial bubbled.

Towards Laissez-Faire/free trade, Gold standard, corn-laws, wars, Marx, German and U.S. industrialization, Russian backwardness.

Long depression, Industrialization 2 (railroads, fuels, electricity), State actions, Globalization 1, Market expansion, Free trade- protectionism, competition, growth, social movements, Tsarists Russia, Revolution, imperialism, dissolution of empires, WW1, British decline.

Versailles, Post-war recovery, late-comers, German hyperinflation, debt-chain, Gold standard recovery, the U.S authoritarian regimes: Fascism, USSR planned economy

Depression and recovery, black Thursday 1029, "Great depression", Goldstandard breakdown, economic dirigisme and state actions, planned economy, Fascism, Nazism, Mixed economy, WW2

Bretton Woods, mixed economy, Post-war recovery & Integration, regulations of markets, USSR expansion & satellites in E-C-E, China/Mao 1049, Cold war division

Cold war, The Golden age: Keynesianism, regulations, Bretton-woods, integration (EEC-EMEA), convergence, productivity development and catch-up, Gold-USD problems. National Economies/welfare states, Big government & Big business, MNC's

• Industrialization 3 (microchip & computers) NIC's, OPEC 1+2, Stagflation in the west/ Stagnation in the East, Monetarism, de-regulations, MNC's market expansion, Berlin Wall, "Washington Consensus"
• - Globalization 2 (deregulations/capital flows)

De-regulations, Gorbachev, Cold war ends 1991, Post-communist transformations, integration, capital mobility