TERRITORIAL PRACTICES FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

The course addresses the issue of the impact of different development models and of their actual implementation (practices) on economies, societies, and territories. Emphasis is placed on the relation between economic and human development across the world; on the long term consequences of different development paths; on the potentialities of new economic models.
The course is structured in two parts. The first one (part A) analyses development models and practices within a chronologic framework, whereas the second one (part B) goes deeper into chosen thematic aspects.
Part A:
1. Monarchy, Mercantilism and the First Colonization: the Roots of the Western Hegemony;
2. The Chinese Early Modern Economic Model: From Long Term Stability to Stagnation
3. Liberalism: From Industrial Revolution to the Great War
4. Central Planned Economy: the Soviet and the Chinese “Experiments” [1917-1989]
5. Keynesianism: Demand Side Economics, Social Development and Sustained Growth
6. Neoliberalism and Globalization: Western Economies, Transition Economies, and China
7. New Development Perspectives: Local Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Blue Economy, Modular Economy. Theories and Case Studies.
Part B:
1. War and Development: The Second World War in the Soviet Economy;
2. Currencies and Development : Yuan, Dollars, Euros and Rubles in the 21st century Global Market;
3. Questioned Development: Tourism in Venice from the 1950s to the Present;
4. Questioned Development: Amazon in the Food Market.