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ECON 231: The Emergence of Modern
Economic Growth
Fall Term,
2011
Monday
11:30 am - 1:00 pm and Thursday 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Dunning
Hall Room 14
Contact Information:
Ian Keay
Email: ikeay@econ.queensu.ca
Office:
Dunning Hall Room 310 or 221D
Office
Hours: Monday 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Thursday 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Teaching Assistants: Nicholas Andexer (11na7@queensu.ca)
Wing Feng (fengy@econ.queensu.ca)
Richard Ishac (11ri4@queensu.ca)
Course Outline and Reading List
Announcements:
Moodle Enrolment Key provided on course outline.
Midterm:
Monday, October 17
Sample
Midterm Essay Questions
Term Paper Due: Monday, November 21
Term
Paper Hints and Suggestions
Don't forget to email an electronic version of
your term paper to econ231papers@econ.queensu.ca
Topics:
Introduction
Topic
1 - Defining Modern Economic Growth
Topic
2 - Malthusian Pre-Modern Economic Growth
Topic
3 - Britain's High Wage Economy
Topic
4 - Fertility Transitions
Topic
5 - Early Technological Change
Topic
6 - Early Institutions
Topic
7 - Enclosure and Property Rights
Topic
8 - Biased Technological Change
Topic
9 - Slow Growth and Crowding Out
Topic
10 - Globalization and Transport Costs
Topic
11 - British Workers' Standards of Living
Reading
Package:
A reading
package with all of the required readings is available on reserve at Stauffer
Library.
Readings can
also be downloaded from a Queen's IP address or the Queen's Proxy Server:
Van
den Berg (2001), “Economic Growth Throughout History”, in Economic
Growth and Development, Pg. 35-74.
E.A.
Wrigley (1983), “Malthus’ Model of a Pre-Industrial Economy”,
in Malthus Past and Present, Pg. 111-24.
R.
Allen (2009), "The High-Wage Economy of Pre-Industrial Britain", in
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, Pg. 25-56.
R. Allen (2003),
"Poverty and Progress in Early Modern Europe", Economic History
Review, Pg. 403-43.
T.
De Moor and J.L. Van Zanden (2010), "Girl Power:
The European Marriage Pattern and Labour Markets in the North Sea Region in the
Late Medieval and Early Modern Period", Economic History Review, Pg. 1-33.
J.A. Goldstone (1986),
“The Demographic Revolution in England: A Reexamination”,
Population Studies, Pg. 5-33.
G.
Clark (2007), "Technological Advance", in A Farewell to Alms, Pg.
133-44.
J.
Mokyr (1990), "The Renaissance and Beyond:
Technology, 1500-1750", in The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity
and Economic Progress, Pg. 57-80.
D. North (1994),
"Economic Performance through Time", American Economic Review, Pg.
359-68.
G.
Clark (2007), "Institutions and Growth", in A Farewell to Alms, Pg.
145-65.
D. McCloskey (1972),
“The Enclosure of Open Fields: Preface to a Study of its Impact on the
Efficiency of English Agriculture in the 18th Century”,
Journal of Economic History, Pg. 15-35.
R. Allen (1982), “The
Efficiency and Distributional Consequences of 18th Century
Enclosures”, Economic Journal, Pg. 937-53.
G. Clark (1998),
"Commons Sense: Common Property Rights, Efficiency and Institutional
Change", Journal of Economic History, Pg. 73-102.
R.
Allen (2009), "Why was the Industrial Revolution British?", in The
British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, Pg. 135-55.
R.
Allen (2009), "The Industrial Revolution in Miniature: The Spinning Jenny
in Britain, France, and India", Journal of Economic History, Pg. 901-27.
G. Clark (1994),
“Factory Discipline”, Journal of Economic History, Pg. 128-63.
N. Crafts and C.K. Harley
(1992), "Output Growth and the British Industrial Revolution: A
Restatement of the Crafts-Harley View", Economic History Review, Pg.
703-30.
J. Williamson (1984),
"Why Was British Growth so Slow During the Industrial Revolution?",
Journal of Economic History, Pg. 687-712.
G.
Clark (2001), "Debt, Deficits and Crowding Out: England, 1727-1840", European Review of Economic History, Pg. 403-36.
D. North (1968),
"Sources of Productivity Change in Ocean Shipping, 1600-1850",
Journal of Political Economy, Pg. 953-70.
K. Harley (1988), "Ocean
Freight Rates and Productivity, 1740-1913: The Primacy
of Mechanical Invention Reaffirmed", Journal of Economic History, Pg.
851-76.
P. Lindert
and J. Williamson (1983), "English Workers' Living Standards During the
Industrial Revolution", Economic History Review, Pg. 1-25.
J. Williamson (1981),
"Urban Disamenities, Dark Satanic Mills and the
British Standard of Living Debate", Journal of Economic History, Pg.
75-84.
G. Clark (2005),
"The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1209-2004", Journal
of Political Economy, Pg. 1307-40.
