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一、課程說明(Course Description)
This course is intended to offer a general guidance for graduate students and senior undergraduate students to study economic history, and hopefully to start research work on it. For the purpose, the lectures and readings focus on the analytical framework and the important topics of European and American economic history.
Studying economic history should be fun and rewarding. Students who take the course are expected to be well motivated, and their participation in class is almost required. There will be homework assignments, in-class presentations, and a term paper requirement. The course grade will be based on overall performance.
二、指定用書(Text Books)
North, Douglass. Structure and Change in Economic History. (Norton. 1981).
North, Douglass. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. (Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Parker, William, ed. Economic History and the Modern Economist. (Blackwell, 1987)
三、參考書籍(References)
《西洋經濟史的趣味》（賴建誠著，允晨文化，2008）
《新國富論》（David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, 1998）(汪仲譯，台北：時報出版，1999）
《大分流：中國、歐洲與現代世界經濟的形成》(Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of Modern World Economy, revised edition, 2001)（邱澎生、陳巨擘、張寧、連玲玲、巫仁恕、呂紹理、楊淑嬌、林美莉、劉士永等譯，台北：巨流出版社，2004）
《白銀資本》(Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age, 1998) (原著，簡體字譯本)
四、教學方式(Teaching Method)
教師講授配合同學討論。
五、教學進度(Syllabus)
I. Why Study Economic History?
McCloskey, Donald. "Does the Past have Useful Economics?" Journal of Economic Literature 14(2) (June 1976): 434-61.
North, Douglass. "Structure and Performance: The Task of Economic History," Journal of Economic Literature 16(3) (September 1978): 963-78.
II. Cliometric Revolution
(1) Counterfactual
Fogel, Robert. "The New Economic History: Its Findings and Methods," in Fogel and Engerman, ed. Reinterpretation of American Economic History. (1971).
Elster, Jon. Explaining Technical Change: A Case Study in the Philosophy of Science, (Part I: Modes of Scientific Explanation). (Cambridge University Press, 1983).
(2) Path Dependence
David, Paul. "Understanding the Economics of QWERTY: the Necessity of History," in Parker, ed.
Arthur, Brian. "Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-In by Historical Events," Economic Journal 99 (1989): 116-31.
-. "Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms in Economics," in Philip Anderson, Kenneth Arrow, and David Pines, ed. The Economy as an Evolving Complex System. 1988.
North. Institutions, ...(Part II Institutional Change)
III. The Making of an Economic Society
North. "The First Economic Revolution," in Structure and Change.
Allen, Douglas. "Homesteading and Property Rights; or, 'How the West was Really Won," Journal of Law and Economics 34 (April 1991): 1-23.
Libecap, Gary. "Bureaucratic Opposition to the Assignment of Property Rights: Overgrazing on the Western Range," Journal of Economic History 41(1) (March 1981): 151-
Anderson, Terry, and Fred McChesney. "Raid of Trade? An Economic Model of Indian-White Relations," Journal of Law and Economics 37 (April 1994): 39-74.
Carlos, Ann, and Frank Lewis. "Indians, the Beaver, and the Bay: The Economics of Depletion in the Lands of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1700-1763," Journal of Economic History 53(3) (Sept. 1993): 465-94.
IV. Traditional Economy: Feudalism, Manorlism, Serfdom, etc.
North. "The Rise and Decline of Feudalism," in Structure and Change.
McCloskey, Donald. "The Open Fields of England: Rent, Risk, and the Rate of Interest, 1300-1815," in David Galenson, ed. Markets in History: Economic Studies of the Past. (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Doma, Eversy. "The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis," Journal of Economic History 30 (March 1979): 18-32.
Guinnane, Timothy W., and Ronald I. Miller. “Bonds without Bondsmen: Tenant-Right in Nineteenth-Century Ireland,” Journal of Economic History 56:1 (March 1996): 113-133.
V. Trade and Merchant Empire
Grief, Avner. "Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders," Journal of Economic History 49(4) (Dec. 1989): 857-82.
Price, Jacob. "What Did Merchants Do? Reflections on British Overseas Trade, 1660-1790," Journal of Economic History 49(2) (June 1989): 267-84.
Milgrom, Paul, Douglass North, and Barry Weingast. "The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs," Economics and Politics 2(1) (March 1990): 1-23.
Nye, John. "The Myth of Free Trade Britain and Fortress France: Tariffs and Trade in the Nineteenth Century," Journal of Economic History 51(1) (March 1991): 23-46.
VI. Imperialism
Davis, Lance, and Robert Huttenback. Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire. (Cambridge, 1988).
Brandt, Loren. "Interwar Japanese Agriculture: Revisionist Views on the Impact of the Colonial Rice Policy and the Labor-Surplus Hypothesis," Explorations in Economic History 30 (1993): 259-93.
Brennan, Lance, John McDonald, and Ralph Shlomowitz. "Trends in the Economic Well-Being of South Indians under British Rule: The Anthropometric Evidence," Explorations in Economic History 31 (1994): 225-60.
Kimura, Mitsuhiko. “The Economics of Japanese Imperialism in Korea, 1910-1939,” Economic History Review 48:3 (1995): 555-564.
VII. Industrial Revolution
Crafts, British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution. (Oxford University Press, 1985).
Mokyr, Joel, ed. The Economics of Industrial Revolution. (Bowman and Allanheld, 1985). Esp. chapters 1-5.
Explorations in Economic History 24(3) (July 1987).
North. "The Industrial Revolution Reconsidered," in Structure and Change.
VIII. The Post-Industrial Society: Entrepreneurial Failure, Organizational Rigidity, Economic Control, Rent Seeking, etc.
North. "The Second Economic Revolution and Its Consequences," and "Structure and Change in the American Economic History, 1789-1914," in Structure and Change.
Anderson, Terry, and Peter Hill, The Birth of a Transfer Society. (Hoover Institute Press, 1980).
Olson, Mancur. The Rise and Decline of Nations. (Yale University Press, 1982).
六、成績考核(Evaluation)
指定作業與學期報告各佔50%。
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