Università Roma Tre

The course provides students with essential knowledge on the structuring of monetary systems (particularly the Bretton Woods currency system) and on the financial networks and marketing channels of the 20th century. Special emphasis is given to the problems of the integration of the underdeveloped countries into the global economy.
I. Cycles and trends in the Second World War
- The conversion of war economies and the rise of mixed economies.
II. The circuits of international trade.
- The Marshall Plan, the birth of the European Union and the Comecon.
- The integration of developing countries and neo 70s.
- The return to free trade in the 80s and the birth of the World Trade Organization.
III. Currency systems
- The Bretton Woods currency system.
- Apogee and decline of the gold-dollar standard exchange rate and flexible regional monetary agreements.

The course will be organized in seminars: the material to be studied will be distributed by the teacher during the lessons; the students not attending the course are requested to contact the teacher.