Overview
Lecturer
Cosmin Popa Gorjanu
Seminar tutor
Cosmin Popa Gorjanu
Type of course
Elective (1 of 2)
Language of instruction
English
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Finance
Field of study
Finance and Banks
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification.
Entry requirements
Introduction to Ancient General History; introduction to Medieval History of Romanians; Introduction in the General Medieval History.
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 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.
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.
Assessment
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.