About two weeks ago I made some rather rash statements about the nature of Roman intellectualism, which I just a few days later realized were founded almost entirely on my prejudices against the poor Romans. Thus, I felt that a post would be required to make up for things. This post, to be specific.
In addtion [...]
Posts filed in Hist2410
Hist2410 is the code of the course “Economic history: The political economy of globalization”, which I’m taking this term (fall 2006). The course deals withe the developments in world trade, international investments, transportation, public regulations, and similar aspects of the economy in the last 190 years. My lecture notes from this course will be posted here.
An Exercise in Humility
The collapse of the international economy in the Interwar Years — lecture #7
Damn, it’s been a month since the last time I posted the notes to a history lecture, and now I have some fifteen untouched lectures to work my way through, in addition to the approximately ten still remaining. Damn me and my cursed laziness. Anyway, here we go:
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WWI represents a definite shift in world history. [...]
Back again…
I’d almost forgotten all about how much it hurts to get a partially frozen, horisontally flying snowflake driven into one’s eye with the force of a fresh breeze. So thank you for returning and reminding me, dearest King Winter.
Anyway, I’m going away for a couple of days, so there won’t be any new posts here [...]
The Restoration Of What? The Gold Standard, or Erathia?
Maximum fourteen pages left to read before I can begin writing, and I’m dizzier than ever.
In fact, I am so dizzy that I have started to hallucinate. Whenever I read the phrase “the restoration of the gold standard”, the letters begin floating outwards, transforming themselves into the words “The Restoration of Erathia”, and I can [...]
I have to learn to read paper assignments more closely…
I am annoyed with myself. Today, after procrastinating for a few hours, getting various menial work out of the way before staring on my history paper, I thought I’d check what, exactly, I’m supposed to write about, and write this down on a piece of paper to have in front of me while reading. To [...]
Norway in the era of free trade — lecture #6
This post will deal mainly with the European context of free trade, conditions for free trade in 19th century Norway, and the French treaty system. Following a section on this, we’ll turn to the effect of free trade on Norwegian industries, and to how the free trade regime came under press at the end of [...]
The easiest dilemma I’ve ever faced
I have a dilemma. On the one hand, I’ve got a history assignement due in three days, that I hould really start doing some research for, in the very least. Next Tuesday, I’ve gotta hand in a 6-7 pages long paper on the gold standard prior to 1914. In the syllabus books of this course, [...]
“Democratic Capitalism”? Norway 1814-1920 - Lecture #5
There were some imprtant differences between the economic policy of Norway and that of other Western European nations in the 19th century. The Norwegian historian Francis Sejerstedt claims that a process took place in Norway in this time, in which political will to democartize capitalism and change the rules of society was central.
Compared to other [...]
Monetary systems and the gold standard — Lecture #4
Why do we believe that paper money has any value? This isn’t a given belief, and neither is it neccesarily true, historically speaking. After WWI, several European economies experienced hyperinflation, and in more recent times we’ve seen the collapse of the monetary systems of Russia and Argentina, amongst others. But let’s start with the beginning, [...]
International investments, transport revolution, and globalization 1850-1914 — lecture #3
(If I do at least one of these things each day, perhaps my conscience can finally have some peace…)
International movements of capital before WWI (1814-1914)
Investments abroad isn’t a new phenomena. Italian city states made investments in France, Germany and other countries during the Renaissance, and Swiss bankiers made investments in Norwegian “industry” so early as [...]
The Ascendency of the West - lecture #2
(It’s been a while since I posted a history lecture, so here’s some of that good stuff. Oh, and as I review this post, I see that I’ve mixed up the forms of a lot of verbs. That sucks hard, but I don’t bother to fix it, as I’ve now spent three hours on this [...]
“From mercantilism to neoliberalism” — a walkthrough of modern economic history (2nd lecture)
(Because of the previously mentioned Bjørnson Festival, I missed this lecture. Because of this, this post is based on the notes of “Angus MacGyver” — the alter ego of the guy sitting in front of me during the lecture on Tuesday, September 5. Yet another consequence, is that I’ll just translate the notes; I won’t [...]
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