- Docente: Augusto De Benedetti
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-STO/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Historical sciences (cod. 0978)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide students with a broad outlook of the evolution of the industrial capitalism during the past century. The units of analysis are the great countries industrialized and the different organizational models adopted by their production systems. The main objective is to stress that the changes of industrial systems are unquestionably shaped by institutional, social and economical elements.
Course contents
Course title: The evolution of varieties of capitalism
The course proposes a critical analysis of the main models of development of the industrial systems in a comparative framework, discussing the classic paradigms of the economic analysis in comparison with latest interdisciplinary studies. The evolution of the main features of industrial capitalism is pointed out by the different patterns of change in political and socio-cultural context at head of the world economy: the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan. A part of course features Italian case, which is considered one of many variations of industrial capitalism.
Readings/Bibliography
For students who do not attend:
Pier Angelo Toninelli, Storia d'impresa, Bologna, il Mulino, 2006.
Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Franco Amatori, Takashi Hikino (a cura di), Grande impresa e ricchezza delle nazioni 1880-1990, Bologna, il Mulino, 1999.
Richard Whittington, Michael Mayer, L'impresa europea. Strategia, struttura, culture aziendali, Milano, Università Bocconi Editore, 2002.
L'impresa italiana nel Novecento, a cura di Renato Giannetti e Michelangelo Vasta, Bologna, il Mulino, 2003.
Teaching methods
The course will be organized mainly as seminar. The first part will introduce the aims of the work and the main features of the proposed themes. A seminar about the analysed cases will follow. The arguments to examine closely will be shaped with reference to individual interests or of group.
Assessment methods
Student evaluation consists of a paper than can be the result of individual effort or group work or otherwise an oral exam covering the textbooxs.
Teaching tools
Monographic readings, study of sources.
The computer will be used mainly for the preparation of teaching materials that the teacher and students consider useful, but may also serve to carry out a wider, more personal search for bibliography.
Office hours
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