Economics · Boston College
This class explores economic growth over the past millennia. For most of its history, humanity did not experience the type and quality of life, as we know it today (e.g., electricity, running water, medicine, telecommunications, and transport). It is only during the second half of the 18thcentury when Europe (and later U.S.) started to see economic growth. This growth started with the Industrial Revolution. In the first part of the course, we will study models that explain why economic growth is such a recent phenomenon. We will rely on models such as those proposed by Malthus to understand wh
