MSc in Economic History (Research)

Programme code: TMEHRE

Department: Economic History

This information is for the 2016/17 session.

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. 

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

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 

EH446

Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia

EH476

The Economic History of War

EH482

Pre-Modern Paths of Growth: Europe and the Wider World, 11th to 19th Centuries

EH483

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

3

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

 

EH404

India and the World Economy (H)

EH408

International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (H) (n/a 16/17)

EH409

Chinese Economy in Transition: 1850-1950 (H)

EH413

African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H)

EH423

Japan and Korea as Developing Economics (H) (n/a 16/17)

EH424

The British Economy in Global Perspective, 1000-2000 (H) (withdrawn 16/17)

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 16/17)

EH429

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

EH447

Great Depressions in Economic History (H) (withdrawn 16/17)

EH451

Latin American Development: Political Economy of Growth (H) (n/a 16/17)

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)

EH467

Epidemics: epidemic disease in history, 1348-2000 (H) (withdrawn 16/17)

EH476

The Economic History of War

EH486

Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c1600-1860 (H) (n/a 16/17)

EH487

International Economic Institutions since World War I (H) (withdrawn 16/17)

LL4CB

Modern Legal History: Private Law and the Economy 1750-1950 (H) (n/a 16/17)

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