MSc in Economic History (Research)

Programme code: TMEHRE

Full-year, five unit programme. Students must take two compulsory half-unit courses, optional courses to the value of two units and a dissertation (which counts as two units) as shown. 

Paper

Course number and title

1a

EH401

Historical Analysis of Economic Change (H)

1b

One of the following:

EH402

Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Economic History (H)

EH426

Quantitative Topics in Economic History I: Cross-section and Panel Data (H)**

EH427

Quantitative Topics in Economic History II: Time Series and Economic Dynamics (H)**

2

Courses to the value of one unit from the following:

 

EH422

Topics in Quantitative Economic History 

EH446

Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (n/a 15/16)

EH476

The Economic History of War

EH482

Pre-Modern Paths of Growth: East and West Compared, 1000-1800

EH483

The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries

3

Either another paper from 2 above OR two half-units from below:

 

EH404

India and the World Economy (H)

EH408

International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (H) 

EH409

Chinese Economy in Transition: 1850-1950 (H)

EH413

African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H)

EH423

Japan and Korea as Developing Economics (H) (n/a 15/16)

EH424

The British Economy in Global Perspective, 1000-2000 (H) (n/a 15/16)

EH426

Quantitative Topics in Economic History I: Cross-section and Panel Data (H)**

EH427

Quantitative Topics in Economic History II: Time Series and Economic Dynamics (H)**

EH428

History of Economics: making Political Economy into a Social Science (H) (n/a 15/16)

EH429

History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (H) (n/a 15/16)

EH447

Great Depressions in Economic History (H) (n/a 15/16)

EH451

Latin American Development: political economy of growth (H) (n/a 15/16) 

EH452

Latin American Development and Economic History (H) (n/a 15/16)

EH463

The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries (H)

EH464

The Historical Context of Business (H)

EH467

Epidemics: epidemic disease in history, 1348-2000 (H) (n/a 15/16) 

EH476

The Economic History of War

EH486

Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c1600-1860 (H)

EH487

International Economic Institutions since World War I (H)

LL4CB

Modern Legal History: Private Law and the Economy 1750-1950 (H)

4 & 5

Dissertation which is assessed as:

 

EH496

Research Dissertation A: Contextualisation, Theory and Research Design and

 

EH497

Research Dissertation B: Implementation: Evidence, Analysis and Contribution

** These courses cannot be combined with EH422