- Docente: Tito Menzani
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Management and Marketing (cod. 8406)
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from Feb 10, 2025 to May 24, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student is in a position to understand correctly the evolution of the world economy from the agrarian pre-industrial era to the present post-industrial society. Specificallky the student will be able to: - assess how an advanced organic economy functioned, with its energetic limits in comparison with the present mineral-based energy economy; - appreciate the different paths of development of a number of the today advanced nations; - understand how countries have internationalized first and then globalized - acquire knowledge on cycles, bubbles, failures of planned economies, effects of wars.
Course contents
The program has two parts.
The first is concerned with industrial revolution in England and in Western economies.
The most important themes will be the following: innovation processes, relationships between economies and institutions, recent develompment and its effects on the society.
The second part deals with the business history in general and with reference to big corporations, industrial districts, state-owned enterprises, cooperatives .
Readings/Bibliography
V. Zamagni, Dalla rivoluzione industriale all'integrazione europea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1999 (or other edition).
P.A. Toninelli, Storia dell'impresa, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006 (or other edition); (except chapter I).
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Assessment methods
The exam is wiritten and consists of four open questions and four brief questions, with two hours to answer them.
Teaching tools
Lessons will be supported by slides.
Office hours
See the website of Tito Menzani
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.