Lecture Slides in Economic History

This course page supports a module on the economic history of the development of international financial institutions and markets as taught by Larry Neal of the LSE in 2009. It covers topics such as the sub-prime crisis, past financial crises and bubbles, the Gold Standard, the Great Depression, Bretton Woods and the emergence of globalization in modern times. It includes slides for each lecture, PDFs of related readings and course admin information.

Part of Brad DeLong's blog, this section supports a 2009 version of a course on economic history as taught at the University of California at Berkeley. The material includes lecture slides and notes, mp3 audio files of lectures, exam papers, problem sets, plus links to background information available freely online. Information is accessible chronologically, by subject category and by type.

This course web page includes links to antitrust web material, assignments and PowerPoint slides (in .pdf) on the topics of: biological living standards, measuring economic welfare, the second great migration, technology and the economy, and ten points of "Time on the Cross". This link is to Archive.org's copy of the site.