In this course you will get acquainted with fundamental concepts that are essential to understand the contemporary world. You will understand the power of modern economic growth and how it has shaped the modern world. You will obtain the first notions of growth theory. You will understand the idea of technical change and how it is affected by institutional, cultural and geographical factors. You will understand the origins of inequality in the modern world.

The course should also help you to be aware of the non-linear and contingent nature of historic evolution and understand that the current state of affairs in the world is not static and definitive, but shaped by past events and bound to probably change drastically in the future.

The course will give you the tools to use critical reasoning in the analysis of historiographical and economics works, allowing you to understand that there are diverging perspectives on the same historical or current events, which are organised in historical, scientific and political debates, something that will help you to have a critical perspective on the current political and economic state of affairs.

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