Lecture Rehearsals: 2. Chasing Economic El Dorado, 1870-1929: 20th Century Economic History
From this fall's course—lecture rehearsal videos for remote learners...
2.1. LECTURES—DEMOCRATIZATION & POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE GLOBAL NORTH, 1770-1914
Rising tides of democracy and socialism in a world that must cope with technology revolutionizing the economy every generation (63:15):
Slides: <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/2021-09-09-lecture-2.1-democratizing.pptx>
Readings:
DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia ch. 3 <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/2021-07-31-slouching-%23tocopyedit.pdf>
Barry Eichengreen: The Populist Temptation, selections <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/chapters-eichengreen-populist-temptation-2-3-4.pdf (Links to an external site.)>
2.2. LECTURES—IMPERIALIZING & GLOBALIZING THE GLOBAL SOUTH, 1750-1914
A brief look at the impact of globalization and modern economic growth in the global north on the global south (69:40):
Slides: <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/2021-09-14-lecture-2.2-imperializing.pptx>
Readings:
DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia ch 4 <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/2021-07-31-slouching-%23tocopyedit.pdf>
2.3. WORLD WAR I, 1900-1920
2.3.1. Lecture—Shifting Levels of Analysis: From big-scale history of demography and technology to middle-scale history of classes and parties to history as chance and contingency: one damned thing after another, where even individuals can make a big difference and matter (4:51):
2.3.2. Lecture—Nationalism: Why on earth should people be willing to fight and die—or at the very least draft lots of other people to fight and die—for the nation, so that the police elsewhere will do what your rulers want? But that was the way it was (09:50):
2.3.3. Lecture—The Coming of World War I: Nationalism as a poison cocktail, and how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (and his wife Sophie) triggered World War I (27:03):
2.3.4. Lecture—The Course of World War I: The course of World War I. An immensely costly—10 million dead, 10 million maimed—attrition war, where German military and engineering ingenuity ultimately did nothing but multiply the destruction by a factor of 10 (14:10):
2.3.5. Lecture—Could the Post-WWI World Pick Up the Pieces?: How global north societies, polities, and economies tried to pick up the pieces after World War I and lay the foundations for a resumption of progress towards utopia at the rate they believed they had seen over 1870-1914. They failed (33:47):
Slides: <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/2021-09-16-lecture-econ-115.pptx>
Readings:
DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia ch 5 <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/2021-07-31-slouching-%23tocopyedit.pdf>
2.4. FAILED REBUILDING, 1918-1929
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2.4.1. Lecture—The Belle Époque Ends in the European Half of the Global North: How and why did the initial stages of post-WWI reconstruction go so wrong? (18:15):
2021-09-21 Tu 2.4.2. Lecture—The Roaring Twenties: The Belle Époque continues in the United States, stoked by mass production—and high mass consumption (20:53):
Slides: <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/2021-09-21-administration-slides-115.pptx> <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/2021-09-21-2.4-roaring-twenties.pptx>
Readings:
DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia ch 6 <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/2021-07-31-slouching-%23tocopyedit.pdf>
Robert Skidelsky: John Maynard Keynes: A Very Short Introduction Intro, chs 1-3 <https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/readings/book-skidelsky-keynes-vsi-selections-i.pdf>