Political Economy

Week 2 Tutorial 1

News Report

Evolution of the world economy

Q&A

• What is a structural (or geopolitical) and what a cultural factor?
• Is poverty an outcome of culture or of relations? Or maybe something else?
• What drove colonial expansion?

Break

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• Answer each question individually

• Be quick

• Send me the answer in the chat

• Round-table discussion

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• Which economic regions (or ‘subsystems’) does Abu-Lughod identify?

• What are the differences with O’Brian and Williams’ list?

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• What is bigger India or Greenland? See here for the answer

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• Why is Abu-Lughod dissatisfied with most historical accounts of the evolution of the world economy?

• What is her own approach on the matter?

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• Why does Boris Johnson do to relax? The answer is here

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• What are possible causes for the rise of Europe (up till 1800)?

• Consider both Abu-Lughod and O’Brian & Williams

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• Where was earth's economic centre of gravity in AD 1000? Look here.

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• What is the ‘triangular trade’?

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• What was the role of gender in ​European expansion and how it changed over time?

   

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• What is and why are O’Brian & Williams skeptical about the term ‘Pax Britannica’?

• Why was the industrial revolution British? See VoxEU for help.

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• Can you think of another 'Pax'? Let's look at Vox

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• Why did the ‘scramble for Africa’ only start in the latter half of the 19th century?

• Why not, for instance, at the same time of the European conquest in the Americas?

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• Where, according to Donald Tusk politicians pushing for a hard Brexit will end up? The answer is here

Future scenario

• Examine the present economic system and make a (supported) predictions on the development of the global economy in this century (XXI).

Thank you!