Economic and Social History

Base Knowledge

N/A

Teaching Methodologies

Composed by theoretical-practical classes it  is included the reliance on exposition with a bigger stress on the professor-students and student-student interaction, exploring – in a large or small group – historiographical texts or sources and, simultaneously, doing an orientation of works.

Continuous/periodic assessment takes into account both the individual performance of the students, including their attendance, motivation, participation and critical reflection (20%), or the preparation of documents (40%) to be presented and discussed in class (40%). Aspects such as structure and organization of information, recipients’ adequacy and work goals, language used, quality and correctness of scientific information will be valued. Evaluation by exam (100%) will be made through written and oral test (only if the classification 8 or 9 points).

Learning Results

Carry out operations and use specific instruments of the History methodology.

Develop questioning and problematisation habits towards new situations or the acquired knowledge.

Show understanding for the plurality of points of view, without losing consistency/coherence on personal opinions.

Develop communication skills.

Grow habits on organisation of the intellectual and scientific work.

Recognise History’s specificity in the group of the Social Sciences.

Differ between the principal economic doctrines.

Correlate regimes and socio-economical policies during the twentieth century.

Explain the tendencies of the contemporary economic and social thought.

Justify the principle cicles of economic and social development of Portugal.

Evaluate the phenomena and processes of economic and social evolution.

Program

1. General considerations. Concepts clarification.

2. An overview on the world economy of the twentieth century.

3. A stagnation period in Portugal (1891-1914). The colapse of 1891. New economic policy. The republicans’ action.

4. The time of wars and crisis – its consequences. Reaching the economical abyss.

5. Portugal through the «global war» and the crisis (1914-1947).

6. New epoch of prosperity. Market economies and economies of central direction. The decolonisation economy. The Third World. The genesis of the European Community.

7. The secong epoch of growth in Portugal (1947-1974).

8. The crisis of the seventies. The market economies and the colapse of the Soviet bloc. The european unit, a reality for the twenty-first century.

9. The last quarter of the twentieth century. Revolutionary crisis (1974-1976). Recovery , stagnation and growth (1976-1990).

Curricular Unit Teachers

Grading Methods

Continuing Evaluation
  • - Synthesis work - 80.0%
  • - Attendance and Participation - 20.0%
Exam
  • - Exam - 100.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

Brunel, J. (2012). História Económica do Mundo. Ed. Texto & Grafia.

Lains, P. (Org.) (2009). Sem fronteiras. Os novos horizontes da economia portuguesa. Imprensa das Ciências Sociais.

Lains, P., Lobo, M. (Org.). (2007). Em nome da Europa. Portugal em Mudança (1986-2006). Principia Editora.

Lains, P., Silva, A. F. (Org.). (2005). História Económica de Portugal (1700-2000). ICS.

Mata, E., Valério, N. (2003). História Económica de Portugal – uma perspectiva global. Presença.

Mattoso, J. (Dir.). (2011). História da Vida Privada em Portugal. Temas e Debates/Círculo de Leitores.

Nunes, A. B., Valério, N. (2004). História da economia mundial contemporânea. Presença.

Nunes, A. B., Valério, N. (2004). O crescimento económico moderno introdução a uma história da economia mundial contemporânea. Presença.

Persson, K.G., Sharp, P. (2015). An Economic History of Europe: Knowledge, Institutions and Growth, 600 to the Present.2ª ed. Cambridge University Press.