The
course is taught in German, but most of the material is in English.
This seminar focusses on the special period of industrialization as well
as the first regulatory measures in the United States. These developments
between the Civil War and the I. World War were accompanied by societal
controversies over the role of the government, income distribution and
inequality. We discuss topics such as Anti-Trust policy, industrial
concentration processes, the development of capital and credit markets as
well as the institutional development of the stock exchanges. Moreover,
questions of income inequality, but also trade issues such as tariffs will
be discussed.
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