5HD396 America from Independence to Financial Crisis: Special Topics in U.S. Economic History, course in English (SS 2018)

The course 5HD396 America from Independence to Financial Crisis: Special Topics in U.S. Economic History is taught in English by Ing. Zdenka Johnson, Ph.D. with the following schedule May 28, 2018 – June 1, 2018 9:15-12:30 at SB322.

Course content

• War for Independence – economic aspects.
• Slave labor and slavery in American agriculture. The functioning of the international slave trade.
• The Norh and the South – economic causes and consequences of the Civil War.
• The Gilded Age – rise of the U.S. in the world economy.
• Roaring Twenties – consumer society and economy.
• The Great Depression – course, response of economic policy, consequences.
• War economy during World War II.
• Golden Sixties – economy and society during the Kennedy and Johnson eras.
• Oil crises and the collapse of the Bretton Woods system – impacts on the U.S. economy.
• Supply-side Economics in practice – economic policy during the Reagan administration.
• Clintonomics. Economic aspects of the Persian Gulf War.
• Dollar Diplomacy a hundred years later – U.S. economic interests in the Americas, Asia and Third World countries.
• Recent financial and economic crisis – the parallels with the Great Depression.

For more information see syllabus on InSIS.