Economics 204 - AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY

Major topics include the economic results of Civil War; the emergence of the United States as the leading industrial power; the rise of giant industry; beginnings of economic and social regulation; internationalization of the economy; the Great Depression and New Deal; the economics of World War II and post war boom; stagnation; Reaganomics; the information revolution and the Great Recession. Prerequisites: 150 and 153.