MSc in Economic History

Full-year programme. Students must take compulsory courses to the value of 1.5 units, and either optional courses to the value of two units and a half-unit dissertation, or optional courses to the value of 1.5 units and a full unit dissertation.

Paper

Course number and title

1

EH401

Historical Analysis of Economic Change (H)

2

EH482

Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West compared, c1000-1800 or

EH483

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

3 & 4

Either

 

EH498

Dissertation: MSc Economic History (H) and courses to the value of two full units from the following

Or

 

EH499

Dissertation: MSc Economic History and courses to the value of 1.5 units from the following:

EH402

Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Economic History (H)

EH404

India and the World Economy (H)

EH408

International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH409

Chinese Economy in Transition: 1850-1950 (H)

EH412

Research Topics in Economic History A (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH413

African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H)

EH419

Research Topics in Economic History B (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH422

Topics in Quantitative Economic History 

EH423

Japan and Korea as Developing Economies (H)

EH424

The British Economy in Global Perspective, 1000-2000 (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)**

EH428

History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH429

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

EH446

Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (n/a 14/15)

EH447

Great Depressions in Economic History (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH451

Latin American Development: political economy of growth (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH452

Latin American Development and Economic History (H)

EH463

The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries (H)

EH464

The Historical Context of Business (H) 

EH466

Labour and Work in Preindustrial Europe (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH467

Epidemics: epidemic disease in history, 1348-2000 (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH476

The Economic History of War

EH482

Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West compared, c1000-1800 (if not taken under paper 2)

EH483

The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (if not taken under paper 2)

 

EH486

Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c1600-1860 (H)

 

EH487

International Economic Institutions since World War I (H)

 

LL4CB

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

** These courses cannot be combined with EH422