Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
İKT2052013201ECONOMIC HISTORYCompulsory234
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
The objectives of this course: to provide general (entry level ) information and perception about history of economics, to explain economic/social facts, transformations, structures and systems through the historical processes of different geographical spaces and societies.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1explain the birth of history of economics.
2define the agricultural revolution and its results and related theories.
3comment on the economic conditions of European and other societies during the ancient and middle ages
4explain the birth and results of Industrial Revolution around the world
5comment on the economic development processes in different societies during the 20. century
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Mode of Delivery
Formal Education
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
This course includes the birth and the development of the history of economics, agricultural revolution and the results, ancient civilizations, feudalizm and Arabic-Islam civilizations/economic conditions in Middle Ages, the birth and the consequences of Industrial Revolution around the world and economic changes in the 20. century.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1The birth and the development of history of economic, general information
2Agricultural Revolution and its results
3Economic Conditions of Ancient Civilizations
4Economic conditions of European societies during the early middle ages
5Economic Conditions of European societies during the advance middle ages
6Economic conditions of Arabic/Islamic societies during the middle ages
7Economic conditions of European, Asia, African and American societies during the late middle ages
8mid-term exam
9Economic conditions of European societies during the early modern ages, merchant activiies and the economic ideology of laizes-faire
10the fall of laizzes-faire and the rise of controlled market structures
11Changing structure of Economic Power in Europe and the Industrial Revolution
12the disperse and diffusion of Industrial activities
13World Economy in the 20. century: structural changes
14Economic systems depended on central planning
15the rise of Keynesian social welfare states and keynesian economics through the first and second world war
16final exam
Recommended or Required Reading
Text Book: Tevfik GÜRAN, İktisat Tarihi, Acar Matbaacılık, İstanbul, 2003. Recommended Reading: Ivan T. BEREND, 20. Yüzyıl Avrupa İktisat Tarihi, (Çev. S. Çağlayan), İstanbul: İş Bankası Yayın No: 2133, 2011. Vural SAVAŞ, İktisatın Tarihi, Ankara: Siyasal Yayınevi, 5. Baskı, 2007. Herbert HEATON, Avrupa İktisat Tarihi, (Çev: M. A.Kılıçbay ve O. Aydoğuş), Ankara: Paragraf Yayınevi, 2005. John K.GALBRAITH, İktisat Tarihi, Ankara: Dost Kitabevi, 2004. Arif ERSOY, İktisadi Teoriler ve Düşünceler Tarihi, Nobel Kitabevi, Ankara, 2008. Ali ÖZGÜVEN, İktisadi Düşünceler-Doktrinler ve Teoriler, Filiz Kitabevi, İstanbul, 2005. Funda R. ADAÇAY - Hasan İSLATİNCE, İktisadi Düşünceler Tarihi, Ekin Yayınevi, Bursa, 2009. Gülten KAZGAN, İktisadi Düşünce ve Politik İktisadın Evrimi, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul, 1998. Robert L. HEILBRONER, İktisat Düşünürleri, Dost yayınevi, Ankara, 2003. Recep KÖK, İktisadın Tarihi ve Felsefi Temelleri, İzmir, 1999. Ayşe BUĞRA, İktisatçılar ve İnsanlar, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul, 1993.(Yeni Baskısı İletişim yay.).
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
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End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
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Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination111
Attending Lectures14342
Team/Group Work13226
Observation14114
Individual Study for Mid term Examination11414
Individual Study for Final Examination12222
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)120
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