Il programma include 2 parti
Prima parte (basata principalmente sul libro di Persson e Sharp) :
1. The making of Europe (2 ore)
2. Europe from obscurity to economic recovery (2 ore)
3. Population, economic griwth and resource constraints (2 ore)
4. The nature and extent of economic growth in the pre-industrial epoch (2 ore)
5. Institutions and growth (2 ore)
6. Knowledge, technology transfer and convergence (2 ore)
7. Money, credit and banking (2 ore)
8.Trade, tariffs and growth (2 ore)
9. International monetray regimes in history (2 ore)
10. The era of political economy: from minimal states to the Welfare State in the twentieth
century (2 ore)
11. Inequality among and within nations: past, present, future (2 ore)
12. Globalization and its challenge to Europe. (2 ore)
2a parte (di natura empirica e basata sul database di Roses and Wolf) :
La quantificazione dello sviluppo economico regionale in Europa, 1900-2010 (12 ore)