For precise schedule of offerings see department catalog during pre-enrollment week each semester.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, economic history, the history of capitalism, and histories of economic life have returned to history departments, but the parameters of this new turn remain unclear. This course offers an introduction to the range of historiographical and methodological approaches to studying capitalism, the economic system that emerged in the early modern period and which dominates the world today. It attends to scholarly disputes over the origins of the distinctive economic features of capitalism: private property, the international monetary system, free wage labor and slavery, commodification and cultures of consumption, credit and banking, as well as industrialization and economic growth. No prior quantitative methods training is required, or assumed.

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