Educational guide 2023_24 Faculty of Business and Economics

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. THE TRANSITION TO THE INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE	1.1. Industrialization: diffusion or structural process? 1.2. The conditioning factors of the industrial structure 1.3. Industrialization models 1.4. The industrial revolutions
2. CYCLES AND WORLD ORDER	2.1. The cycles of the international economy 2.2. Characteristics of the First International Economic Order, 1800-1931 2.3. An alternative position: the EHEA 2.4. The pillars of the Second World Order, 1945-1973 2.5. Inequalities in global economic growth
3. CRISES OF WORLD ORDER	3.1. Dysfunctions and international imbalance (1873- 1945) 3.1.1. The crisis of 1873 3.1.2. The Great War 3.1.3. The crisis of 1929 and the Great Depression 3.2. The International Economic Order after the oil crisis 3.2.1. The Rise of Neoliberalism: The End of History? 3.2.2. New problems and paradigms in the period from the 20th to the 21st century
4. THE CONTEMPORARY SPANISH ECONOMY	4.1. The conditioners of industrialization in Catalonia and Spain 4.2. Debt and economic policy in 19th century Spain 4.3. Spain within the First World Order 4.4. Spain within the Second World Order ?