Econ 115 :: The World Economy in the 20th Century :: Lecture 1 :: Introduction
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2024-01-16 Tu: The Long 20th Century: A Grand Narrative
Readings:
DeLong, J. Bradford. 2022. Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books <bit.ly/3pP3Krk> <https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/files/87705514/download?download_frd=1>, “Introduction”
Block, Fred. 2001. "Introduction." In The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, by Karl Polanyi, xxix. Boston: Beacon Press. <http://www.compilerpress.ca/Competitiveness/Anno/Anno%20Block%20Intro%20Great%20Transformation%202000.htm>
David, Paul. 1985. “Clio and the Economics of QWERTY,” American Economic Review Papers
and Proceedings 75, pp. 332-337. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1805621>