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ECO 301Y: Economic History of Later-Medieval and Early-Modern Europe: course website for the 2013-14 academic year.

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• Current Notices, Announcements, and Answers to FAQ :

  last updated: Wednesday 27 November

• My Curriculum Vitae (Résumé): in PDF format

• A short biography of John Munro: in PDF format

• My publications on the departmental website: most (but not all) of those published since 1998 are available on-line as PDF files that may be downloaded and printed. See also John Munro's Page on 'Focus on Research': posted by the University of Toronto Libraries, with a complete list of publications.

• My Working Papers web site: with all my working papers online from 1998 to the present (1-45).

• My Conference Papers in Power Point and PDF formats

• My Courses in European Economic History: ECO 301Y (1250-1750) and ECO 303Y (c.1660-1914). Each of these courses is usually offered in alternate years (as indicated below).

  - Or go directly to my linked web pages for:

• ECO 301Y: The Economic History of Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1250 - 1750: offered in 2013 - 2014 (not offered last year)

• ECO 303Y: The Economic History of Modern Europe to 1914: offered in 2012 - 2013, but not in 2013 - 2014.

• login to Blackboard's Portal website for my courses (or for the one being offered this year).

• See Portal Information: Blackboard Learn 9.1: for information, assistance, and answers to FAQ, on how to use Portal's Blackboard.

• Portal Help List: Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation: list of contacts

• Instructions on Writing Term Essays : pay special attention to the rule on the proper formatting of essays (for bibliographies, footnotes, etc).

• On the Use of Turnitin: for term essays in ECO 301Y.

• Memorandum from the College Writing Centres: on support offered for student writing assignments in the Faculty of Arts and Science

• Bibliographies for Essays in European Economic History: for ECO 301Y and ECO 303Y

• Essays in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Economic History, 1250 - 1750: A Compendium of Web Guides for Writing Term Essays in ECO 301Y: instructions, regulations, topics, and bibliographies.

• Essays in Modern European Economic History to 1914 (World War I) A Compendium of Web Guides for Writing Term Essays in ECO 303Y: instructions, regulations, topics, and bibliographies, for the academic year 2012 - 2013.

• My Economic History Lectures posted online:

  (1) ECO 301Y1: The lecture notes presented in the academic year 2011-12 have now been removed, and the revised versions of the lectures will be posted again online (in both PDF and MS Word), after each has been delivered in class. If you click on the URL for the PDF or Word file for a lecture not yet given, you will receive an Error 404 message: file not found.

  - ECO 301Y Power Point summaries of the weekly lectures (also in PDF format). Those given the last time that the course was presented (2011-12) will remain online, though each will be replaced by a revised version, after being presented in class.

  (2) ECO 303Y1 : the lectures given last year and posted online (in 2012 - 2013) will remain online until 31 August 2014.

  - On-line summaries of lectures in ECO 303Y. This html web site contains both a summary of all lectures for the 24 weeks of this course, combined into one PDF file, and also individual PDF files for the individual summaries of each week's lecture -- posted only after the lecture has been given. They are presented chronologically, in the order presented, from mid-September 2012 to the end of classes in April 2013. Note that these summaries are provided in lieu of Power Point slides (as presented in ECO 301Y); and that such lecture summaries are not available for ECO 301Y. They will similarly remain online until 31 August 2014.

• Distributions and Means of Final Grades in ECO 301Y and ECO303Y: from 2003-2004 to the present, in Excel spreadsheets, one for each of these two courses.

• A note on lecture hours in my economic history courses: and my opposition to recent changes imposed by the Faculty of Arts, in reducing the number of semester weeks from the historic 13 weeks to the current 12 weeks (with only two hours of lectures per week).

• The current status of economics, economic history, and of higher education in North America: some on line commentaries and blogs.

• Economists' Opinions: Other opinion pieces and blogs by Krugman, Stiglitz, and other liberal economists.

• Other Academic Commentaries and Lectures on Line: by prominent economists and economic historians: including a list of annual winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics

• Journals on Line: chiefly via J-Store, University of Toronto Libraries

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