University Catalog 2014-2015

University of Colorado Boulder

ECON-8534 (3) Economic History of North America

Examines North America's past from the perspective of economics. Topics include growth and welfare in the colonial period; staple products, agricultural development, and the emerging industrialism in the antebellum period; transformation of the North American economy to 1914; the interwar years and the Great Depression; and economic integration since 1945. Prereqs., ECON 6070 and 6080, or ECON 7010.