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Undergraduate Economic History Courses

Undergraduate Courses and Availability 2024-25

Please note that course availability for non-compulsory courses varies from year to year.

If you have any queries about course availability please contact us:  h.ivins@lse.ac.uk

First year

  • - The Internationalization of Economic Growth (Compulsory for all first year Economic History undergraduates)
  •  - The Preindustrial Economy. (Compulsory for BSc Economic History and BSc Economics and Economic History.)

Second Year

  •  - Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity
  •  - China since 1800: Culture, institutions and economic growth
  •  - The Family Economy in History: 1260 to the present day (n/a 2024-25)
  •  - Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000
  • EH221 - Boom and Bust: Boom and Bust: Macroeconomic History of the Modern World 
  • EH222 - The Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa (n/a 2024-25)
  •  - Latin America and the International Economy
  •  - Theories and Methods in Economic History (Compulsory for all second year Economic History undergraduates)
  •  - The Origins of Growth
  •  - Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context 

Third Year

  •  - The Economic History of North America: from Colonial Times to the Cold War
  •    - Monetary and Financial History since 1750 (n/a 2024-25)
  •   - The Economic History of South Asia 1600-2000 (n/a 2024-25)
  •   - Historical Economic Geography: Cities, Markets and Regions in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • - Knowledge, Technology and Economy from the Middle Ages to Modernity 
  • EH314 - Political economy and economic policies: Europe from the High Middle Ages to the French Revolution
  •  - Atlantic World Slavery (n/a 2024-25)
  • EH317 Disease, Health and History (n/a 2024-25)
  •  - Innovation and Its Finance in the 19th and 20th Centuries (n/a 2024/25) 
  •  - China's Traditional Economy and its Growth in the Very Long-Term (n/a 2024-25)
  •  - History of Economics: How Theories Change (capped at 75)
  •  - Dissertation in Economic or Social History (compulsoryfor BSc Economic History, BSc Economics and Economic History, BSc Economic History and Geography)