EH220
Comparative Economic Development: Late Industrialisation in Russia, India and Japan
This information is for the 2011/12 session.
Teachers responsible
Dr Peter Howlett, CMK. C514 and Professor Janet Hunter, CMK. C420 Availability
This is a compulsory course for BSc Economic History. It is optional for BSc Economic History with Economics, BSc Economics, BSc Economics and Economic History, BSc Economics with Economic History, BSc Human Resource Management and Employment Relations, BSc Environment and Development, BSc International Relations and BSc Management. This course is also available to General Course students and as an outside option. Course content
The course surveys the economic development of Russia, India and Japan over the last 150 years. The emphasis is comparative and the focus on particular problems of industrialisation in the pre-World War I, interwar and post-1945 years.
Dynamism and constraints in pre-industrial economies; state policy and industrial take-off; peasant agriculture, agricultural performance and industrialisation; traditional and modern manufacturing; capital, labour and entrepreneurship; effect of war and military expenditure; industrialisation strategies, planning and the role of the state; institutions and institutional reform; technological capability; impact of the international economy; quality of life issues. Teaching
Lectures: 20 weekly lectures (EH220) and 24 classes (EH220.A). Formative coursework
Students will be expected to write four essays or equivalent pieces of written work during the year and will also be expected to give class papers. Indicative reading
No one book covers the whole syllabus and a detailed reading list will be supplied; the following texts are valuable for parts of the course: G C Allen, A Short Economic History of Modern Japan (repr 1991); V N Balasubramanyan, The Economy of India (1984); N Charlesworth, British Rule and the Indian Economy, 1800-1914 (1978); R W Davies, Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Krushchev (1998); P Francks, Japanese Economic Development (2nd edn, 1999); P Gatrell, The Tsarist Economy 1850-1917 (1986); P Gregory & R C Stuart, Soviet and Post-Soviet Economic Structure and Performance (1994); D Rothermund, Economic History of India (1988). Assessment
A three-hour written exam in the ST. ^
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