HIST 2700 - Global Capitalism

Hours: 3
Today it is taken for granted that we live in a global economy: jobs and the standard of living in America are directly affected by economic developments elsewhere in the world and the benefits of global trade are disputed. Exploring the history of the development of the modern global economy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include how and why global trade networks grow, how industrial economies develop, and the differential processes and impacts of globalization, including in the United States. The history and political economy of economic integration and disintegration in the long-20th century; including rise of a global economy before WWI, the collapse of the global economy in the 1920s and 1930s, the development of communism and capitalism following WWII, and the reshaping of global capitalism between the 1970s and the present. Explores the different policies and viewpoints of developed and developing nations regarding capitalism and the domestic and international impacts of capitalism, including on the environment and culture.

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HIST 2700 - Global Capitalism