Reed, C. The Causes of Very Long-Term Growth (1000 A.D. to the Present)

used the material in all 3 required texts. This turned out to be

critical for the students to integrate the material. I will teach

the course again next fall.

Clyde

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Department of Economics

COURSE: ECON 382-3 SEMESTER: Fall 1995

TITLE: From Subsistence to Extravagance: The Causes of Very

Long-Term Growth (1000 A.D. to the Present)

INSTRUCTOR: C.Reed

PREREQUISITES: ECON 103 or 200 and ECON 105 or 205, 60 credit hours.

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Description:

For most of recorded history, per capita incomes have hovered around

subsistence. In the past 200 years, a few economies have experienced

twelve-fold increases in average incomes while others have remained

close to subsistence. The course studies the causes of long term

growth within this historical context.

Required Texts:

North, Douglass Cecil, Tomas, Robert Paul, The rise of the Western

world; a new economic history. Cambridge [Eng.]: University Press,

1973.

Rosenberg, Nathan, Birdzell, L. E. Jr., How the West grew rich : the

economic transformation of the industrial world. New York : Basic

Books, Inc., c1986.

Mokyr, Joel, The lever of riches : technological creativity and

economic progress. New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Supplementary Texts:

Powelson, John P., Centuries of economic endeavor : parallel paths in

Japan and Europe and their contrast with the Third World. Ann Arbor

: University of Michigan Press, c1994.

Jones, E. L. (Eric Lionel), Growth recurring : economic change in

world history. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford

University Press, 1988.