2025/2026

Economic History of the Modern and Contemporary Periods in a Global Context

Type: Optional course (faculty)

Delivered by: Department of Theoretical Economics

Where: Faculty of Economic Sciences

When: 3 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Alexey Klimanov

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 40

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The purpose of the course is to give students a thorough understanding of economic development in historical dynamics and geographical variety till the beginning of the XXI-st century. This course is devoted to study of industrial and post-industrial societies. Students study long-term trends and critical stages of leading countries’ economic progress, distinct features of their economic life and economic culture. Upon the successful conclusion of the course, students should be able to understand the main types of reforms and economic transformations that took place in the past and to assess structural and institutional shifts in retrospect, using the experience of these events in creating analytics of current economic processes.