Course Code and Title

 

ECO227 Economic History I

Type of Course

 

Compulsory

Credit of the Course

 

3 0 3

ECTS Credit

 

4

Lecturer

 

Gökçer Özgür

Prerequisites

 

None

Period of the Course

1 Semester / 3 hours each week

Course Contents

 

 

  • The methodology and the scope of economic history
  • Development, growth, and progress
  • Economics and the emergence of civilization
  • Economic development in Medieval Ages
  • European geographical and economic expansion in pre-capitalist era
  • Economic nationalism and mercantilism
  • The emergence of industrial revolution

 

Purpose of the Course

 

(Learning Outcomes)

 

The objective of this course is to give the student the basic concepts and tools of the economic analysis. In general, the aim is to cultivate a disciplined way of thinking “economically” on real world economic problems. The focus of the course will be on the conceptual foundations of the economics discipline, without omitting the concrete cases that could be relevant for economic analysis. At the end of this course, students are expected to acquire some notion as to what economics is about. After examining the basic framework of economics in general and its concepts, the main focus will be microeconomics, which deals with the individual decision problems.

 

Recommended Reading

  • Rondo Cameron and Larry Neal (2003) A Concise Economic History of the World, 4th Edition, Oxford University Press.

 

Teaching Methods

 

 

Lectures

Assessment methods

2 midterms (25 % each) and 1 final (50 %)

Language of Instruction

English