Economic+History

'Economic History' is an elective course for students (including ERASMUS exchange students) at CUB.

Read the official course syllabus here []

=1) Introduction=
 * technical information
 * course requirements, remember to send your paper (ca 10 pages) by **December 15** by email!
 * literature - books available in CUB central library and bookshop, see other libraries e.g. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ELTE University Library, CEU
 * What is economic history? Limits in time and space

=2) Demography=
 * some models of population, economy, and society
 * Malthusian model
 * T.R. Malthus and E. Boserup - dynamic model of R.D. Lee
 * see the presentation: []
 * chaos theory
 * see Jurassic Park (1993) scene: http://youtu.be/n-mpifTiPV4
 * population data
 * global population growth, regional population change
 * old type demographic crisis
 * demographic transition
 * age and sex distribution
 * see the presentation: [|http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_SH_demography.pdf]

=3-4) Sea trade and navigation=
 * sea trade
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_EH_seatrade.pdf
 * navigation techniques
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_EH_navigation.ppt
 * Europe and the sea - geographical features
 * China on sea until the 15th century
 * development of sailing ships 1400-1800
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_WH_sailing.pdf

=5-8) Agrarian production and consumption=
 * landlords and peasants, tenures and holdings - the institutions
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_EH_land_income.ppt
 * climate
 * structures of food consumption
 * meat and bread
 * transhumance and drove routes
 * grain trade and food supply
 * rice, maize, and potato
 * wine and beer
 * coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar, tobacco
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_EH_foodconsumption.pdf
 * land-use
 * extension of the agrarian production
 * land reclamation
 * intensive technologies, yield-ratios
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_EH_agrar.pdf

=9) Textile industry=
 * flax (linen), wool, cotton
 * carding
 * spinning
 * weaving
 * handicraft and machinery
 * home industry
 * proto-industrialization, putting-out system
 * manufacture and factory
 * see the presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_EH_textile.pdf
 * Lewis W. Hine's photographs 'Child Labor in America 1908-1912' = http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
 * watch "How the Mole Got His Trousers" / "A Kisvakond nadrágja" on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLG6e4gFBII

=10) Steam engine=
 * see presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_EH_steamengine.ppt

=11) Transportation and communication=
 * inland trade
 * means of transportation
 * telegraphy
 * modern communication technologies

=12) Consumption and standard of living=
 * possible sources and data
 * structure of food consumption
 * changes in family budgets
 * prices and wages
 * anthropometric history
 * see handouts and presentation: http://web.uni-corvinus.hu/~szantay/protected/Szantay_EH_consumption.pdf
 * see also 'Cliometrics' in 'Social History Methods' course page

=13) Conclusion=
 * Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, manuscript 1973, published in Cipolla, Allegro ma non troppo, Bologna 1988 in Italian, Budapest 2009 in Hungarian, read online: http://cantrip.org/stupidity.html or http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/