MSc Economic History (Research)

Full-year 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. 

The teaching term (MT: Michaelmas Term; LT: Lent Term) has been provided for each half unit course.

Paper

Course number and title

1a

EH401 Historical Analysis of Economic Change (H) (MT)

1b

EH402 Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Economic History (H) (LT)

2

One of the following:
EH411 Epidemics and Economic and Social History: From the Black Death to the Present
EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H) (MT) and EH418 Research Issues in African Economic Development (H) (LT) (n/a 08/09)*
EH422 Topics in Quantitative Economic History 
EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (n/a 08/09)
EH462 Latin American Development in the Twentieth Century: From Liberalism to Neo-Liberalism (n/a 08/09)
EH463 The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries (H) (n/a 08/09) and EH464 The Historical Context of Business (H)
EH475 The Rise and Decline of Economic Policy in Twentieth Century Western Europe
EH477 History of Economics: From Moral Philosophy to Social Science (n/a 08/09)
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, one from (i) and one from (ii) below:
(i) Half-unit to be taken in the MT:
EH412 Research Topics in Economic History (H) (n/a MT 08/09)
EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H)
EH417 Political Economy of Late Industrialisation (H) (n/a 08/09)   
EH447 Great Depressions in Economic History (H)
EU461 Economic History of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, 1820-1945 (H)
EH464 The Historical Context of Business (H)
(ii) Half-unit to be taken in the LT:
EH404 India and the World Economy (H)
EH408 International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (H)
EH412 Research Topics in Economic History (H)
EH418 Research Issues in African Economic Development (H)*
EH487 International Economic Institutions since World War I (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

* Please note that EH413 is a pre-requisite of this course

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