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Overview
Introduction
You’ll examine the impact of economic change on geography, both in today’s world and in the past, and how different processes affect the economic and social geography of modern societies.
We look at questions such as:
- Why are some countries rich and others poor?
- What forces shape inequality?
- What can historical events tell us about current global economic developments and crises?
As you progress, you’ll complete a series of research projects based on primary historical sources. These culminate with a year-long dissertation in your third year where you undertake an original piece of research in historical economic geography.
When you graduate, you’ll have a range of highly transferable skills that will set you up for a career in the City, financial markets, NGOs and the charity sector, the Civil Service, teaching, government or academia.
Preliminary readings
If you wish to gain further insight into the subject, we suggest that you look at one or more of the following books:
- R C Allen Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- S L Engerman and K L Sokoloff Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: endowments and institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- J Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Past 13,000 Years (Vintage, 1998)
- C Goldin and L Katz The Race between Education and Technology (Harvard University Press, 2008)
- K H O’Rourke and J G Williamson Globalization and History: the evolution of a nineteenth century Atlantic economy (MIT Press, 1999)
- E Glaeser Triumph of the City (Penguin Press, 2011)
- S Chant and C McIlwaine Geographies of Development in the 21st Century: an introduction to the Global South (Edward Elgar 2009)
- P Dicken Global Shift: mapping the changing contours of the world economy (Sage Publications, 2015)
- M Storper Keys to the City: how economics, institutions, social interaction and politics shape development (Princeton University Press, 2013)
- E Moretti The new geography of jobs (Mariner, 2013)
- A O'Sullivan, Urban Economics (Irwin/MacGraw-Hill, 2012)