MSc Economic History (Research)

Full-year, five unit programme. Students must take two compulsory half-unit courses, optional courses to the value of two units and a dissertation (which counts as two units) as shown. 

Paper

Course number and title

1a

EH401

Historical Analysis of Economic Change (H)

1b

One of the following:

EH402

Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Economic History (H)

EH426

Quantitative Topics in Economic History I: Cross-section and Panel Data (H)**

EH427

Quantitative Topics in Economic History II: Time Series and Economic Dynamics (H)**

2

Courses to the value of one unit from the following:

 

EH422

Topics in Quantitative Economic History 

EH428

History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (H)

EH429

History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (H)

EH446

Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia

 

EH476

The Economic History of War

EH483

The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries

3

Either another paper from 2 above OR two half-units from below:

 

EH404

India and the World Economy (H) (n/a 13/14)

EH408

International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (H)

EH412

Research Topics in Economic History (H) (n/a 13/14)

EH413

African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H)

EH419

Research Topics in Economic History B (H) (n/a 13/14)

EH423

Japan and Korea as Developing Economics (H) (n/a 13/14)

EH424

The British Economy in Global Perspective, 1000-2000 (H) (n/a 13/14)

EH426

Quantitative Topics in Economic History I: Cross-section and Panel Data (H)**

EH427

Quantitative Topics in Economic History II: Time Series and Economic Dynamics (H)**

EH428

History of Economics: making Political Economy into a Social Science (H)

EH429

History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (H)

EH447

Great Depressions in Economic History (H) (n/a 13/14)

EH451

Latin American Development: political economy of growth (H)

EH452

Latin American Development and Economic History (H)

 

EH463

The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries (H) (n/a 13/14)

EH464

The Historical Context of Business (H)

EH466

Labour and Work in Preindustrial Europe (H) (n/a 13/14)

EH467

Epidemics: epidemic disease in history, 1348-2000 (H)

EH476

The Economic History of War

EH486

Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c1600-1860 (H) (n/a/ 13/14)

 

EH487

International Economic Institutions since World War I (H)

EU438

Turkey: Political Economy and European Integration (H) (n/a/ 13/14)

EU461

Economic History of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, 1820-1970 (H) (n/a/ 13/14)

LL4CB

Modern Legal History: Private Law and the Economy 1750-1950 (H)

4 & 5

Dissertation which is assessed as:

 

EH496

Research Dissertation A: Contextualisation, Theory and Research Design and

 

EH497

Research Dissertation B: Implementation: Evidence, Analysis and Contribution

** These courses cannot be combined with EH422