Greek Economic History

Greek Economic History, photo: .liketobite@flickr

Course ID:

ECO_230

Semester:

6th

Year of Study:

3rd Year

Category:

Economics Elective

For Erasmus Students:

No

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Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of the course, students are expected to:

Have familiarized themselves with issues of Greek economic history
Evaluate and compare theoretical and empirical approaches to the economic history of Greece
Understand and explain the "Greek" road to capitalism and its peculiarities
Critically evaluate the impact of these processes on the structure and change of society, entrepreneurship and business in Modern Greek history

Course Contents

Introduction. Agricultural production during the Ottoman occupation. The development of trade, transportation & merchant marine in the Aegean Sea in the last period of the pre-Revolutionary Greece. The economic problems of the New Greek State: the issue of land ownership, the distribution of land, the development of commerce & the first attempts towards industrialization. State & economic policy in the 19th century. The inter-war period. Agricultural revolution & agricultural development. Industrial development during the inter-war period. Post-war economic developments in Greece.

Teaching Activities

Lectures (3 hours per week)

Teaching Organization

*Activity*	*Semester workload*
Lectures	13X3 = 39 hours
Reading	111 hours
Total number of hours for the Course (25 hours of work-load per ECTS credit)	150 hours (total student work-load)