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MIT OpenCourseWare
Economic History
- Instructors
- Prof. Dora Costa, Prof. Peter Temin
- Term
- Fall 2006
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 4 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 14.731 · Spring 2009 · Study here
- 14.731 · Fall 2006 · Study here (this version)
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 14.731 Economic History, Fall 2006, Prof. Dora Costa, Prof. Peter Temin — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: Early Modern Europe
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Lecture 3: European Expansion
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Lecture 4: Malthusian Demography
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Lecture 5: The Demographic Transition
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Lecture 6: English Financial Institutions
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Lecture 7: The Industrial Revolution: Description
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Lecture 8: The Industrial Revolution: Analysis
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Lecture 9: Northern Europe
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Lecture 10: Southern Europe
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Lecture 11: Africa
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Lecture 12: Ottoman and Russian Empires
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Lecture 13: China
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Lecture 14: Japan
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Lecture 15: Latin America
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Lecture 16: Industrialization in the North
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Lecture 17: The South and Slavery
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Lecture 18: The Aftermath of Slavery
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Lecture 19: Labor Participation
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Lecture 20: The Modern Corporation
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Lecture 21: The Great Depression
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Lecture 22: Recovery
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Lecture 23: The Economics of Wars
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Lecture 24: Assessing U.S. Growth
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Lecture 25: Inequality
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Dora Costa, Prof. Peter Temin, 14.731 Economic History, Fall 2006.
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