U.S. Economic History

Catalog description

The application of economic theory and statistical methods to analyze historical topics and themes. Topics may include the economic causes of the Revolutionary War; the economics of slavery; share cropping and debt peonage in the South after the Civil War; the economics of the resumption of the gold standard; the “cross of gold”, the causes of the Great Depression, post World War II economic growth, and the causes and consequences of the Great Recession. Themes include an analysis of the American economic growth from the 1820’s through today; the government’s role in economic development; and the contributions of natural increase and migration to U.S. labor force and population increase.