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Most of us have a limited knowledge of the powerful role economics has performed in shaping human civilization. This makes monetary history - the analysis of how civilizations organized their environments to provide food, shelter, and material goods - a vital lens through which to think about how we arrived at our present, globalized point in time. Designed to load a long-empty distance in how exactly we think about modern history, these 48 lectures are a comprehensive voyage through more than 600 many years of economic history, from the medieval world to the 21st century. Targeted at the layperson with only a cursory knowledge of the field, An Economic History of the entire world since 1400 unveils how economics has inspired (and been influenced by) historical occasions and trends, like the Black Death, age Exploration, the Industrial Revolution, the European colonization of Africa, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the birth of personal processing. Professor Harreld has constructed a riveting, centuries-long history of electric power, glory, and ideology that unveils how, in step with history, economic ideas surfaced, changed, and thrived or passed away. On the way, you'll bolster your knowledge of a variety of economic principles, philosophies, developments, treaties, and organizations, like the mercantile system, Adam Smith's The Prosperity of Countries, Marxist economics, African freedom movements, and the formation of economic organizations like the European Union. You will also consider provocative questions about the intersection of history and economics. What do the economies of Roosevelt's America and Hitler's Germany have in common? What does history tell us about how nations should determine economic plan? Can we say that free trade is truly free? Marvel at only how much we still have to find out about the economic forces that have dictated our previous - and that will determine our future.

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