ECONOMICS
210A – WORLD ECONOMIC HISTORY
Professor
Gregory
Clark
Fall
2013
1137
Social
Science and Humanities
M,
W 8:00-9:30
gclark@ucdavis.edu
Wellman 235
http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/210a/210ahome.html
Office
Hours: M,
W 1:00-2:30
Description
Economics 210A covers World Economic History from the
Stone Age to the twentieth century. The big issues
we examine are
the long persistence of the Malthusian economy to around 1800,
the Industrial
Revolution, and the subsequent Great Divergence in world
incomes per capita.
Requirements
There will be a final exam, Friday,
Dec. 13,
10:30-12:30. The grade will be 70% for
the final, and 30% for a research report.
The background text for this course
is my book, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History
of the World (Princeton
University Press, 2007). This is available from the
bookstore, or more
cheaply from Amazon. My
web site has links to a
bunch of reviews of the book, with some responses by me.
This book is written at a fairly
intuitive level. The syllabus below thus lists more
technical readings
also on each topic. Required readings are indicated with
a *. The
material is available online though links on the syllabus to
either JSTOR or to
PDF versions of the articles.
OUTLINE
AND
I The Malthusian Economy – the
world till 1800
1. The Logic of the Malthusian Model
*FTA,
Chapters 1-2.
*Symposium
on A Farewell to Alms,
European Review of Economic History, August
2008.
Maddison,
Angus.
2007. Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD: Essays in
Macro-Economic
History.
Clark, Gregory.
2009.
“Review
Essay:
Angus Maddison, Contours
of the
World Economy, 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History.” JEH, 2009.
Malthus, Thomas Robert.
1830. A Summary View of the Principle of Population.
Aylesbury,
Buckinghamshire: Penguin Books, 1970.
2. Testing the Malthusian
Model – Material Living Standards
*FTA,
Chapter 3
Allen, Robert
C. 2001. “The Great Divergence in European Wages
and Prices from
the Middle Ages to the First World War.” Explorations in Economic History, 38(4):
411-448.
Bassino,
Jean-Pascal and Debin Ma. 2005.
“Japanese Wages in International Perspective,
1741-1913.” Research in
Economic History, 23: 229-48.
*Gregory Clark, “The Long March of History: Farm Wages,
Population and
Economic Growth, England 1209-1869,” Economic
History Review, 2007.
*Gregory Clark, “The Condition of the Working-Class in
England, 1209-2004” Journal of Political Economy, 113(6)
(December,
2005): 1307-1340.
Voth, Hans-Joachim.
2001. “The Longest Years: New Estimates of Labor Input
in
3. Malthus versus "the
Revolt of the Early
Modernists": European growth 1200-1800
Broadberry et al., 2010. “British Economic Growth, 1270-1870.”
*De Vries, Jan 1994. “The
Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution” JEH, 249-70.
De Vries, Jan.
2008. The Industrious Revolution.
*Clark, Gregory and Ysbrand van der
Werf. 1999. “Work in Progress. The Industrious
Revolution?” JEH, 830-843.
Clark, Gregory.
2010.
“1381 and the Malthusian Delusion.”
EEH, forthcoming, 2013
Clark, Gregory, Joseph Cummins, and
Brock Smith. 2010. “Malthus, Wages, and
Pre-Industrial Growth”
JEH 2012
Clark, Gregory. 2010. “The Consumer
Revolution: Turning Point in
Human History, or Statistical Artifact?”
Clark, Gregory.
2011. “Major
Growth
or Malthusian Stagnation?
Farming
in England 1209-1869”
4. Testing the Malthusian
Model – Fertility and Mortality
*FTA,
Chapters 4-5
*Weisdorf,
Jacob and
Marc Klemp. 2012. ‘The Lasting Damage to Mortality of
Early-Life Adversity: Evidence from
England's Famine of the Late 1720's”
European Review of Economic History.
Jones,
Larry E. and
Michele Tertilt. 2006. “An Economic History of Fertility in
the
Macfarlane, Alan. 2003. The
Savage Wars of
Peace:
Wrigley, E. A., R. S. Davies, J. E.
Oeppen, and R. S. Schofield. 1997. English
Population History
from Family Reconstruction: 1580-1837.
Lee, James Z. and Wang Feng.
1999. One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology
and Chinese
Realities, 1700-2000.
5. Survival of the Richest
*FTA,
Chapter 6
*Chagnon, Napoleon. 1988. "Life Histories, Blood Revenge, and Warfare
in a Tribal
Population," Science 239:985-92.
*Gregory Clark and Gillian Hamilton. 2006 “Survival of the
Richest. The Malthusian Mechanism in Pre-Industrial
England.” JEH, 66(3).
*Weisdorf,
Jacob, Nina Boberg-Fazlic, and Paul Sharp.
2011. ‘Survival of the Richest? Social Status,
Fertility, and Social Mobility
in England 1541-1824’ European
Review of Economic History, 15:3:
365-392.
*Song,
Xi, Cameron D. Campbell, and James Z. Lee. 2013. “Ancestry
Matters:
Descent Line Growth and Extinction.” Tables
Carol Shiue.
2008. Human
Capital and Fertility in Chinese Clans.
Diego
Comin, William
Easterly, Erick Gong. 2008. Was
the Wealth of
Nations Determined in 1000 BC?”
6. Economic Change Within the
Malthusian Era
*FTA, Chapters 7
Joel Mokyr, The Lever of Riches (1990)
Kremer,
Michael.
1993. “Population
Growth and
Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990.”
Quarterly Journal
of Economics 108 : 681-716.
7. Institutions
and Economic Growth
*FTA, Chapter
8.
*Bill Easterly.
2008. Institutions, Top Down or Bottom Up? AER,
May.
(1) *North,
Douglass
and R. P. Thomas. 1973. The Rise of the Western World, 1-8.
*Clark, Gregory. 1998. “Commons
Sense: Property Rights, Efficiency and Institutional Change,” JEH, 1998.
Kantor, Shawn. 1990. "Razorbacks,
Ticky Cows, and the Closing of the Georgia Open Range: The
Dynamics of
Institutional Change Uncovered,"
JEH, v. 51, n. 4, (Dec): 861-86
(2)*North, Douglass and Barry Weingast
(1989), "Constitutions
and Commitment," JEH, pp. 803-832.
*Clark, Gregory. 1996. “The
Political Foundations of Modern Economic Growth: England,
1540-1800,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
26 (Spring).
*Acemoglu, Daron, Simon
Johnson and James A. Robinson. 2005. “Institutions as the fundamental cause of
long-run growth.” In Philippe Aghion and
Steve Durlauf
(eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, 385-471.
*Acemoglu, Daron, James A. Robinson and Simon
Johnson.
2001. “The Colonial Origins of Comparative
Economic Development:
An Empirical Investigation,” American
Economic Review, 91: 1369-1401.
*Acemoglu, Daron, James A. Robinson and Simon
Johnson.
2002. “Reversal of Fortune: Geography and
Institutions in the
Making of the Modern World,” Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 117: 1231-1294.
Acemoglu,
Daron, Simon
Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2005. “The Rise
of Europe: Atlantic Trade,
Institutional Change and Economic Growth.” AER
*Clark,
Gregory. 2007. “A
Review of Avner
Greif’s, Institutions
and the Path to the
Modern Economy.”
Journal of Economic
Literature.
*Greif,
Avner, Paul Milgrom, and Barry Weingast.
1994. “Coordination,
Commitment
and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild.”
Journal of
Political Economy 102 : 745-776.
8. The
Emergence of Modern Man
*FTA, Chapter 9
*van Zanden, Jan Luiten.
2009. The Long Road to
the Industrial Revolution. Chapters
1, 5.
Crosby, Alfred W. The Measure of
Reality:
Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600.
Galor, Oded and Omer Moav. 2002.
“Natural
Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth.” Quarterly
Journal of
Economics.
*Rogers, Alan R. 1994. “Evolution
of Time Preference by Natural Selection,” American
Economic Review, 84(3): 460-81.
Voth, Joaquim. Time and
Work in
1. Modern Economic Growth
*FTA,
Chapter 10
Easterlin, Richard.
1981. "Why Isn't the Whole World Developed?" JEH, 1-21.
*Lucas, Robert. 1993. "Making
a Miracle," Econometrica, 61(2),
251-272.
*Delong, Brad and Larry Summers.
1991. "Equipment Investment and Economic Growth," QJE, 445-502.
Barro, Robert 1991.
"Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of
Countries," QJE, 407-444.
2. The Transition Between
Regimes - Theory
*FTA, Chapter 11
*Becker, Gary, Kevin Murphy, and
Robert Tamura. 1990. “Human
Capital, Fertility and Economic Growth.”
JPE, 98: S12-37.
*Clark, Gregory. 2014. “The
Industrial
Revolution.” Handbook of Economic Growth.
*Galor, Oded and David N. Weil.
2000. “Population,
Technology and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the
Demographic Transition
and Beyond.” AER, 90: 806-828.
*Kremer, Michael. 1993. “Population
Growth and Technological Change: One Million B. C. to 1990.” QJE, 681-716.
Jones, Charles I. 1999. “Was the
Industrial
Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth over the Very
Long Run.”
Working Paper #7375, NBER.
Jones, Rhys. 1977. “The
Tasmanian Paradox.” In R. V. S. Wright (ed.), Stone
Tools as Cultural
Markers,
Jones, Rhys. 1978. “Why
Did the Tasmanians Stop Eating Fish?” In R. A. Gould
(ed.), Explorations
in Ethnoarchaeology.
Lucas, Robert E. 2002. “The
Industrial
Revolution: Past and Future.” In Robert E. Lucas, Lectures
on Economic
Growth.
*North, Douglass and Barry Weingast.
1989.
"Constitutions and Commitment," JEH, pp. 803-832.
3. The Transition Between
Regimes - Facts
*FTA,
Chapter 12-13
*Mokyr, Joel. 1999, "Introduction"
in Joel Mokyr (ed.), The Industrial Revolution: An
Economic Analysis.
*McCloskey, Donald. 1981. “1780-1860:
A Survey.” in Floud, R. and D. N.
McCloskey (1981), The Economic History of
McCloskey, Donald. 1994. "1780-1860: A
Survey” in
Floud, R. and D. N. McCloskey (1994), The Economic
History
of Britain since 1700 (2 nd ed), Vol. I, 242-270.
*Temin, Peter. 1997. “Two
Views of the British Industrial Revolution”
JEH, 63-82.
*Clark, Gregory. 2007. What Made Britannia Great?
*Clark, Gregory and Neil Cummins. 2008. Malthus
to Modernity: Income, Fertility and Economic Growth in
4. The Social Consequences of the Industrial
Revolution
*FTA,
chapter 14
Allen, Robert C.
2009. “Engels’ pause: Technical change,
capital accumulation,
and inequality in the British Industrial Revolution.” EEH
*Lindert, Peter. 2004. Growing Public: Social Spending and
Economic Growth since
the Eighteenth Century, pp. 3-38,
227-263.
Goldin,
Claudia and Larry Katz. 2008. The
Race between
Education and Technology
Waldenström,
Daniel,
Jesper Roine and Jonas Vlachos.
2009 "The
Long-Run
Determinants of Inequality: What Can We Learn from Top
Income
Data?", Journal
of
Public Economics
Clark, Gregory and Marianne
Page. 2008. Welfare Reform, 1834
Van Zanden, Jan Luiten.
2004. “The Skill Premium and the Great
Divergence.” Working
Paper, University of Utrecht.
5.
Social Mobility
*Clark,
Gregory, Neil Cummins et al.
2014. The Son
also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility. Princeton:
Princeton University
Press. Chapters
1-2, 6-7, 15.
*Clark,
Gregory. 2012. “Social Mobility
in Sweden, 1670-2012. A
Surname Study.”
*Clark,
Gregory and Neil Cummins.
2012. “What is
the True Rate of Social Mobility? Surnames and Social
Mobility in England,
1800-2011”
*Becker,
Gary and
Nigel Tomes. 1986. “Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families.” Journal of Labor Economics, 4(3): S1-S39.
*Bowles,
S. and H.
Gintis. 2002. “The Inheritance of Inequality”
Journal of Economic
Perspectives. Volume
16, Number 3,
Galton,
Francis 1886. "Regression
Towards Mediocrity in
Hereditary Stature". Journal of the Anthropological
III The Great Divergence
1. The Spread of the
Industrial Revolution
*FTA, chapters
15-18
Haber, Stephen. 1989. Industry and
Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of
*Clark, Gregory. 1987. "Why
Isn't the Whole World Developed? Lessons from the
Cotton Mills," JEH, 141-174.
*Clark, Gregory.
2009. “Manufacturing
Growth:
What is the path to prosperity in Africa?
*Wolcott, Susan and Gregory Clark.
1999. "Why Nations Fail: Managerial Decisions and
Performance in
Indian Cotton Textiles, 1890-1938."
JEH.
*Peter
Zeitz (2011) "Do
Local Institutions
Affect All Foreign Direct Investors in the Same Way?
Evidence from the Interwar
Chinese Textile Industry"
Allen, Robert C.
2011. “Technology and the
great divergence:
Global economic development since 1820” EEH.
William Easterly. 2001. The
Elusive Quest For
Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the
Tropics.
Kremer, Michael. 1993a.
“The O-Ring Theory of Development,” Quarterly Journal of
Economics, 108(3):
551-75.
Sachs,
Jeffrey D. 2003.
“Institutions
Don't Rule: Direct Effects of
Geography on Per Capita Income.” NBER
Working Paper No. 9490.