Course aims:

• To stimulate the formation of historical perspective in understanding the working of economic systems
• The learning of chronological and thematic landmarks in economic history.
• Recognition of the interdependence between social, cultural, and economic phenomena.
• Recognition of the synchronicity of economic phenomena in Romania and the broader regional and global economic systems.

Course Entry Requirements:

Introduction to Ancient General History; introduction to Medieval History of Romanians; Introduction in the General Medieval History.

Course contents:

1. Introduction. Research methods in history. 2. The conditions of economic development from Prehistory to the Middle Ages. 3. The economy on the territory of Romania between 1000-1600. 4. The economy from 1600-1848. General conditions of development in sixteenth century 5. Romanian economy between 1848-1948. The premises of modernization 6. Romanian economy between 1948-1965. Political conditions at the end of world war two. 7. Romanian economy from 1965 to 1989. The conditions of economic development.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification.

Learning outcomes:

• retrieval of written sources on the historical past; • establishing historical facts on the basis of historical sources and outside of these; • the concrete production of new historical knowledge on the basis of deeper insights within the study of an epoch and/or of a medium complexity historical subject.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – 30%; oral exam – 70%.

Recommended reading:

• Axenciuc, Victor, Introducere în istoria economică a României. Epoca modernă, București, 1997.
• Constantinescu, N. N. coordonator, Istoria economică a României. Vol. II 1939-1989, Bucureşti, 2000.
• Gunder, Frank André, ”Soviet and East European ’Socialism’: A Review of the International Political Economy on What Went Wrong ” în Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer, 1994), pp. 317-343.