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Subjects and Main Focus
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Subject:
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Socio-economic processes, phenomena and structures in their
micro-historical and macro-historical dimensions
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Focus:
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- Disclosing the forces of socio-economic processes; subject is the interrelation between continuities and discontinuities, especially the economic situations of imbalances and shortages with their stimulating effects for business and state
- Disclosing the transformative dynamics of socio-economic correlations, as for example in the inconstant pattern made up by economic situation and economic growth
- Disclosing the importance of historically unique factors for the course of scientific development
- Analyzing the history of economics
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Course and Subjects:
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We offer lectures, seminars, and exercise seminars. Lectures
and the accompanying exercise seminars are built around a
lecture circle of 5 semesters. |
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Focus of Lecture Circle:
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- The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and Germany in the 18th and 19th century
- Economic and Social History of Germany 1871/73-1914
- Economic and Social History of Germany 1914-1933/1939
- Economic and Social History of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Economic and Social History of the GDR
- Economic and Social History of Europe after 1945
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Focus of Seminars:
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Selected problems of Economic and Social History in the context
of recent scholarly debates are analyzed on the basis of seminar
papers, e.g.:
- shortages of resources in history
- econo-political changes of paradigms in the 19th and 20th century
- structural cycles vs. long waves
- dynamics of theories of economic thought
- business history
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