96848 - HISTORY OF THE WORLD ECONOMY AND MIGRATION

Learning outcomes

This course will take a long view of the economic history of the world and discuss how flows of commodities, people, and ideas have become increasingly globalized. By the end of the course the student is expected to possess the skills and tools of critical analysis in relation to the different models of economic development. Students will also be able to discuss the fundamental trends of the economic history of the world and the dynamics of globalization in the last millennium and will be able to analyze migration phenomena using the conceptual tools of economic and social sciences.

Course contents

The course is organized in lectures and seminars and students’ presentations as detailed in the following program.

1) Lectures (20 hours) aim to introduce students to the core contents of the course. The lectures will address different aspects of globalization, beginning from the history of globalization; how the free movement of goods, labour and capital helped the creation of a globally connected world; past and present globalization waves (and why those waves were interrupted); today’s global actors and global crisis.

2) Seminars on migration (16 hours) are held by international experts and professors who will investigate a few different but interrelated topics: the history and evolution of migration and immigration movements, the impact of immigrant business in Europe and the young foreigners’ national identity formation processes, the integration challenge. European legal experts, historians, demographers, economists and sociologists will offer a cross-disciplinary long-term view on the different aspects of migration movements and their economic and social impact.

The last four hours will be left for students to present/discuss their papers or ideas for a paper in class.

Readings/Bibliography

Some of the readings will be made available on “Risorse Didattiche”

Recommended readings:

Foreman-Peck James, History of the World Economy: International Economic Relations Since 1850, Oxford, 1995.

Findlay Ronald and Kevin O'Rourke, Power and Plenty, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Baldwin Richard, The Great Convergence. Information Technology and the New Globalization, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.

Fauri (ed), The History of Labour Migration in Europe, Routledge, 2015.

Further readings

Abbondanza, G. ‘Italy’s Migration Policies Combating Irregular Immigration: from the Early Days to the Present Times, The International Spectator, 52, 4, pp. 76-92, 2017.

Acemoglu D. et al., The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth (https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/0002828054201305)

Bayly C. A. (2018), Remaking the Modern World, 1900-2015, London: Blackwell, 2018.

Carens, J., ‘How should we think about the Ethics of International migration?’, The EUI Forum on Migration, 17-18 November 2014.

Fauri F., Debora Mantovani and Donatella Strangio (ed.) Economic and Social Perspectives on European Migration, Routledge, 2021.

Fauri F., Free but protected? Italy and the liberalization of foreign trade, in R.T. Griffiths, Explorations in OEEC History, OECD, 1993.

Fauri, F. “The Marshall Plan in Italy. Industrial Renewal and Material Reconstruction” in F. Fauri and P. Tedeschi (ed.), Novel Outlooks on the Marshall Plan, Peter Lang, 2011.

Garten Jeffrey, From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization, Amberley Publishing Limited, 2016.

Gibney, M., ‘Refugees and justice between states’, European Journal of Political Theory, 14, 4, pp. 448-463, 2015.

Goldin, Claudia, and Robert A. Margo. “The Great Compression: The U.S. Wage Structure at Mid-Century.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 107, no. 1 (February 1992): 1-34.

IOM, ‘World migration report 2020’, Geneva (https://publications.iom.int/books/world-migration-report-2020)

Miller, D. ‘Introduction’, in Miller, D., Strangers in our Midst. The political philosophy of Immigration, pp. 1-19, 2016,

Mokyr Joel, A Culture of Growth. The Origins of the Modern Economy, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Piketty Thomas and Emmanuel Saez, “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 118 (1). 2003.

Temin P. 1991. “Free Land and Federalism: A Synoptic View of American Economic History,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 21 (3).

Triandafyllidou, A. ‘Globalisation and migration: an introduction’, in Triandafyllidou, A. (ed), Handbook of migration and globalization, Elgar Publishing, ch. 1, 2018.

Wright G., “The Origins of American Industrial Success,” American Economic Review, Vol. 80, No. 4, Sept. 1990, pp. 651-68.

Additional material distributed in class.

Teaching methods

Lectures, seminars, and class discussion. Lectures are held by professor Fauri, while seminars by internationally renowned experts

Participation is expected and rewarded.

Assessment methods

Grades will be assigned on the basis of a written exam (for all students) which will evaluate the ability to explain and discuss critically the historical facts and analytical questions examined during the class lectures and in the bibliographic references.

The final grade will be the result of the written exam at the end of the ten lectures held by Professor Fauri and an essay each student will write and present in class at the end of the seminars.

 

Regarding the evaluation of the exam, the following assessment scale will be used : <18 fail; 18-23 passing grades; 24-27 good grades; 28-30 very goog/excellent grades; 30 and lode outstanding grade.

Teaching tools

Slides and relevant articles made available on prof. Fauri's website.

In-depth discussions of what the students have learned.

Office hours

See the website of Francesca Fauri