Facultatea de Științe Economice și Gestiunea Afacerilor
Str. Teodor
nr. 58-60
Facultatea de Științe Economice
și Mihali
Gestiunea
Cluj-Napoca, RO-400951
Tel.: 0264-41.86.52-5
Afacerilor
Fax:
0264-41.25.70
[email protected]
www.econ.ubbcluj.ro
Str. Teodor Mihali nr. 58-60
DETAILED SYLLABUS
Economic History
Cluj-Napoca, RO-400951
1. Information about the program
Tel.: 0264-41.86.52-5
“BABEŞ-BOLYAI” UNIVERSITY CLUJ-NAPOCA
OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
ECONOMICS
1.1 Higher education institution
1.2 Faculty
1.3 Department
1.4 Field of study
1.5 Study cycle
1.6 Specialization/Program of study
Management / Finance / Accounting
Bachelor
Management / Finance and Banking / Accounting
Fax: 0264-41.25.70
[email protected]
www.econ.ubbcluj.ro
2. Information about the discipline
2.1 Discipline title
ECONOMIC HISTORY
2.2 The holder of the course
LECTURER MIHAELA ROVINARU ,PH.D
activities
2.3 The holder of the seminar
LECTURER MIHAELA ROVINARU ,PH.D
activities
2.4 Year of study
II 2.5 Semester
III 2.6 Type of assessment Continuus 2.7 Discipline regime
OP
3. Total time estimated (hours per semester of teaching)
3.1 Number of hours per week
3 From which: 3.2 course
2
3.3 seminar/laboratory
1
3.4 Total hours of curriculum
42 From which: 3.5 course
28
3.6 seminar/laboratory
14
Hour
s
Time distribution
Study after textbook, course support, bibliography and notes
Additional documentation in library, on specialized electronic platforms and on the field.
Preparing seminars/laboratories, essays, portfolios and reports.
Tutoring
Examinations
Others activities...................................
3.7 Total hours for individual
33
study
3.8 Total hours per semester
75
3.9 Number of credits
3
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8
10
10
2
3
8
4. Preconditions (if necessary)
4.1 Of curriculum
The course intent
4.2 Of skills
to:
- familiarize the students with the notions, principles and mechanisms
that define and characterize, from temporal and spatial point of view, the
economic life and activity;
- present the economic facts, phenomena and processes in their historical
dynamic, through the most important economic inventions and
innovations that marked, over the time, the human society
- explain the actuality and repeatability of some economic facts and
phenomena
- underline the complementarities elements with other theoretical but also
practical disciplines that contributes to the proper and efficient
preparation of future economists.
- offer the appropriate conditions in order to use the economic past as an
argumentative support for license, master degrees or even PhD thesis.
Not applicable
The course is usualy credited in the first professional competence - C1.
5. Conditions (if necessary)
5.1. For conducting the
course
5.2. For conducting
seminar/laboratory
Videoprojector
Videoprojector
6. Specific skills acquired
Profess The presentation of genesis, evolution and development steps of
ional
comprehensive analysis of economic proceses and phenomena.
skills
economy, through a
The abilities aprropriation and development for analyzing the actual and prospective
realities through reporting to the economic past.
Enrolment in the european and international extensive scientific and academic effort to
the institutional and explanatory valorization of life and economic activity, strategies
and economic policies.
Transv Multifunctional approaches to contemporary economic phenomena, by exploiting the
ersal
comparative economic history components and complementarity with the other
skills
theoretical and practical-applied disciplines.
Promoting multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to
preparing future economists.
7. Course objectives (arising from grid of specific skills acquired)
7.1 General objective of the
Skills development in the knowledge and interpretation
discipline
economic realities reporting to economic past
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of
7.2 Specific objectives
Knowing the notional and conceptual system of economic and
hystoric science.
Comparative presentation of the facts, phenomena and economic
processes
Knowing the doctrines and policies in their economic dynamics
and impact on the economy.
The role of economic history in getting some answers and
establishing strategies in micro, macro and global economy.
8. Contents
8.1 Course
Teaching
methods
Observations
1.1 Introductory concepts, boundaries and landmarks.
Interactive
It
is
1.2 The beginnings and evolution of concerns for economic past
approaches
recommended
1.3 Romanian concerns on research of economic past,
through the use that the study of
1.4 Schools, current and directions of economic past research
of
these contents to
2.1Antropogenesis and the beginnings of economic life
videoprojector, be made in the
2.2 Earth and life in "the Lucy" era
discussing the order of their
2.3 The beginnings of economic life
themes of the presentation.
3.1 The emergence of coins and the beginnings of monetary economy
course.
3.2 The economy in classical antiquity
3.3 The economy in the middle ages
4.1. The birth of capitalism and its influence on the economy (XI-XIII
It
is
centuries)
Use
keywords,
recommended
4.2 Capitalism: definition and general features
examples and that the study
4.3 Capitalist economic developments XIII-XVI centuries
in should be based
4.4.Economic capitalist inventions and innovations XVI-XVIII centuries models
economic
on a minimal
5.1. Capitalist market economy in the pre-modern and modern era
history.
bibliography,
5.2. Forms of capitalist productive and financial organization
Submission
of
indicated
for
5.3.Modern capitalist forms of accounting and commercial law
temathical
each
unit.
organisation
5.4.The beginnings of economic globalisation. From the great works.
geographical discoveries to intercontinental markets.
5.5. fellow and modern banking System. The first commercial and central
The
banks
participation in
5.6. Changes in social structure and politics. The genesis of the modern
the discussions
State and savings
on
the
6.1.The industrial revolution and its impact on economic life
theoretical
6.2.The industrial revolution: the concept, the historical landmarks,
aspects
premise
addressed
or
6.3.The industrial revolution: progress, characteristics and concequences
respectively on
6.4 The impact of the industrial revolution in the modern economy and
the
work
society
presented
at
7.1.General characteristics of the economy in the late 19th century and
each course it is
early 20th century
recommended.
7.2. The first world war and its consequences on the economic life
7.3 Economic innovations and realities between 1920 and 1929
7.4. The Great depression. From the great depression to World War II
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8.1.The economy in the twentieth century. From the second world war to
the contemporary economy
8.2. The second world war and its economic consequences
8.3. Postwar economic and political organization
8.4. The Marshall plan and the beginnings of Western European
economic co-operation
8.5. Golden Ages: 1945-1973
8.6. The market economy between recession and slowed economic
development: 1973-2000
8.7 The economic realities in 2000-2012. The economic crisis of our
day.
Bibliography:
Balog M., Bolovan I., Gräf R., Lumperdean, I. (coord), Population and Economy. Rural and Urban
Instances , Cluj-Napoca, Ed. Presa Univeristară Clujeană, 2011.
Cameron, R., Neal, L., A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present,
Oxford University Press, USA; 4 edition, 2002
Gombrich, Ernst H. A Little History of the World. Yale. UK and USA, 2005.
Lumperdean I., Salanţă M., Graf R., Istoria economie: prelegeri, bibliografie, întrebări şi teme de analiză.
texte esenţiale, Cluj-Napoca, Ed. Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2009.
Lumperdean I., Salanţă M., Graf R., Wirtschaftsgeschichte eine einfuhrung, Cluj-Napoca, Ed. Presa
Universitară Clujeană, 2006.
North, Douglass C., Thomas, R.P., The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, Cambridge
University Press, 1976
Teaching
Observations
methods
8. 2 Seminars
Establishing thematical univers of scientifical works
Scientifical research
Knowing databases
Debating public presentations
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Using indicated Highlighting the
,
bibliography concepts
and
texts.
issues discussed
at the course and
Interactive
their correlation
seminars.
with applied and
practical
Case studies and activities, in orer
applications of to
obtain
compared
and comprehensive
consensual
answers
to
economics
multiple
between
questions
that
economic past connects
us,
and present.
permanently, the
present and the
future.
Bibliography:
1.
Attali, Jacques, La crise, et après ?, Paris, Ed. Fayard, 2008.
2.
Balog, Marin, Gräf, Rudolf, Lumperdean, Ioan (coordonatori), Relaţia rural urban: ipostaze ale
tradiţiei şi modernizării, Cluj-Napoca, Ed. Presa Univeristară Clujeană, 2011.
3.
Brăileanu, Tiberiu, Noua economiei sfârşitul certitudinilor. Secolul XX, Iaşi, Institutul European,
2001.
4.
Kennedy, Paul, Ascensiunea şi decăderea marilor puteri. Transformări economice şi conflicte
militare din 1500 până în 2000, Iaşi, Ed. Polirom, 2011
5.
Krugman, Paul, Întoarcerea economiei declinului şi criza din 2008, Bucureşti, Ed. Publica, 2009.
6.
Mâşu, Ştefan, Omenirea secolului al XXI-lea şi guvernul mondial, Bucureşti, Ed. RAO, 2001.
7.
Murgescu, Bogdan, România şi Europa. Acumularea decalajelor economice, (1500-2010), Iaşi, Ed.
Polirom, 2010.
8.
Reinhart, Carmen M., Rogoff, Keneth, De data asta e altfel. Opt secole de sminteală financiară,
Bucureşti, Ed. Publica, 2012.
9.
Roubini, Nouriel, Mihm, Stephen, Economia crizelor. Curs fulger pentru viitorul finanţelor,
Bucureşti, Ed. Publica, 2011.
10. Schumpeter, Joseph, Poate supravieţui capitalismul. Distrugerea creatoare şi viitorul economiei
globale, Bucureşti, Ed. Publica, 2011.
11. Schumpeter, Joseph A., History of Economic Analysis, New York, 1954.
12. Stiglitz, Joseph, E., În cădere liberă. America, piaţa liberă şi prăbuşirea economiei mondiale,
Bucureşti, Ed. Publica, 2010.
13. Vasilescu, Adrian, Biletul de ieşire din criză, Bucureşti, Ed. Curtea veche, 2011.
14. Voinea, Liviu, Sfârşitul economiei iluziei. Criză şi anticriză. O abordare heterodoxă, Bucureşti, Ed.
Publica, 2009.
9. Corroboration / validation of the discipline content according to the expectations of the epistemic
community representatives, of the ones of the professional associations and also of the representative
employers of the corresponding program.
 The discipline provides the conceptual, epistemic and axiology universe of life in economic
momentum, from ancient times until today. The concerns for economic past, in a coherent and
institutionalized formula, falls, through the discipline of the history of Economics, in the extensive
scientific effort and the european and international academic explanation of contemporary economic
phenomena from the perspective of economic realities. A pragmatic approach for better
understanding, as Paul Samuleson exhort, of confrontations and challenges through which humanity
pass. Is what the representants of Institutional Economic School, said often: history matters, i.e. the
history of the matter, in fact the possibility of knowledge, selection and inspiration for economic
policies for a sustainable economic development of Romania to the European Union, but also of all
mankind.
10. Evaluation
10.2 Methods of assessment
10.3 Share in
final grade
Type of activity
10.1 Evaluation criteria
10.4 Course
The content and the form of working Presence and interactivity to 0,2
paper, how to identify and use of teaching activities
bibliographic
sources,
public
presentations, role assumption within
workshops, answers to questions.
Grading from 1 to 10
Interactivity
through 0.3
questions and answers, case
studies, applications and
development of a scientific
paper or/and seminariale
activity portfolio.
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Final grade
suplemets
10.5
Seminar/laborator
y
Active presence to the seminars
Answers
to
specific
questions
of
economic 0,5
history-themed. Preparation
of reports and supporting
argumentation, presentation
in the seminar.
10.6 Minimum standard of performance

Elaboration of a scientific workpaper.
Date of completion
05.04.2014
Signature of the course holder
Lecturer Mihaela Rovinaru, PhD
Signature of the seminar holder
Lecturer Mihaela Rovinaru, PhD
Approval date by department
Signature of the Head of the Department
12.04.2014
Associated professor Dana Bako, PhD
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