ECO 3305 - American Economic History

Credits: 4
This course is an interdisciplinary one which will use economic methods to analyze and interpret various episodes in U.S. History. Topics to be covered will include: colonial and antebellum money and banking; productivity growth and the secular change to manufacturing economy; slavery; the Civil War; growth of railroads; the gold standard; and the Great Depression.
Prerequisites Economics 1101 or Economics 2201.
Offered in 2007-2008 and alternate years.