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Dr Tom Raster

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Economic History and Geography. This course is available on the BSc in Economic History, BSc in Economic History with Economics, BSc in Economics and Economic History and BSc in Economics with Economic History. This course is not available as an outside option nor to General Course students.

The course explores how and why the location of economic activities changes across time and space from industrialization up to the present. One goal for this course is to demonstrate the importance of history in the formation of the present-day economic landscape. An equally important goal is to demonstrate the applicability of the study of economic geography to the understanding of historical patterns of development and underdevelopment. The course is not organized chronologically but thematically. Particular attention focuses on four major issues: the development of cities, the creation of national markets, the historical basis for manufacturing agglomeration, and the historical evolution and sources of regional inequality.

20 hours of seminars in the AT. 20 hours of seminars in the WT.

This course is delivered via 2-hour seminars in Autum and Winter Term. 

The course includes a reading week in Week 6 of Autum and Winter Term..

All students are expected to write one formative essay, or similar piece of work, and make one formative presentation that will not be used in the final assessment.

Combes, Pierre-Philippe, Thierry Mayer and Jacques-François Thisse, Economic Geography: The Integration of Regions and Nations. Princeton University Press, 2008. Garretsen, Harry and Martin, Ron (2010), Rethinking (New) Economic Geography Models: Taking Geography and History More Seriously, Spatial Economic Analysis, 5, 2, pp. 127-160. Joan Ramón Rosés and Nikolaus Wolf (eds), The Economic Development of Europe's Regions: A Quantitative History since 1900, Routledge, 2018. Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat, Marc Badia-Miro, Henry Willebald (eds) Time and Space: Latin American Regional Development in Historical Perspective, Palgrave, 2020. W.Walker Hanlon and Stephan Heblich (2022), History and urban economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 94.

Essay (35%, 3500 words) and presentation (30%) in the WT.
Essay (35%, 3500 words) in the ST.