ECON 463
Financial History
Fall 2015
Division II
Writing Skills
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Class Details
What can we learn from financial history to understand the successes and failures of finance today, and how finance and politics interact? This course opens with a brief survey of some of the major characteristics, issues, and challenges of financial systems today, and then examines earlier experience with these phenomena. Topics to be examined include: the role of finance in economic development historically, including in the financial revolutions from Northern Italy, the Netherlands, Britain and the US; the relationship between finance and government, and the extent to which it has changed over time; the lessons from early asset bubbles for modern financial systems; the effect of institutions (laws, norms, and culture) and political systems in shaping the impact of finance, as illustrated by comparisons between Mexico and the U.S., among other cases; and lessons from U.S. financial history for policies today. The course also examines the tools that were developed in earlier epochs to deal with different risks, evaluates their efficacy, and considers lessons for modern financial regulation.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1392
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1392
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
evaluation will consist either of 6 short papers or 3 short papers and one longer research paper (student choice), at least one oral presentation, and contributions to class discussions
Extra Info:
may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
Prerequisites:
ECON 251, ECON 252, and (ECON 255 or STAT 346)
Enrollment Preferences:
senior Economics majors
Distributions:
Division II
Writing Skills
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ECON 463 - 01 (F) SEM Financial History
ECON 463 - 01 (F) SEM Financial HistoryDivision II Writing SkillsMR 1:10 pm - 2:25 pm
Hopkins Hall 400 (Rogers Room)1392
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