Università Roma Tre

The course outlines the formation and the development of the main capitalistic economies both in Europe and out of Europe between 19th and 20th centuries:
I. The first and second industrial revolution
- The preconditions for capitalist development in modern Eastern Atlantic, Centuries 17-18th.
- Expanded commercial agricultural revolution and industrial revolution in Britain in the eighteenth century.
- The process of capitalist concentration in the nineteenth century and the second industrial revolution.
II. Economic development in the 20th century
- Industry, trade networks, financial markets on the eve of the First World War.
- The economic cycles in the postwar period
- The crisis of 1929 and national policies in the '30s.

- F. Braudel, Espansione europea e capitalismo. 1450-1650, Bologna, Il Mulino, the newest edition available.
- R.Cameron, L.Neal, Storia economica del mondo, vol II, Dal XVIII secolo ai nostri giorni, Bologna, Il Mulino, the newest edition available.