Università Roma Tre

Evolution of the global economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:
– The factors which determined economic development in the nineteenth century
– The gold standard and growth in international trade
– The consequences of the First World War and of subsequent peace treaties
– The Great Depression (1929-1933)
– The global economy between the two world wars
– The difficult post-Second World War reconstruction period
– The Marshall Plan and the new economic world order
– Processes of economic cooperation and integration
– The end of the golden age
– From the European Monetary System to the Treaty of Maastricht
The Italian economy and the international context from the post-Second World War period to the 1980s:
– From reconstruction to the economic ‘boom’
– Southern Italy and emergency intervention
– Industrial disputes (1963-1973)
– The international context of the 1970s and 80s and the reconstruction process of the Italian economy
– Transformations in the international monetary system
– The difficult construction of monetary cooperation in Europe

R. CAMERON – L. NEAL A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present, Oxford University Press, 2003
V. ZAMAGNI, The Economic History of Italy 1860-1990, Clarendon Press, 1991