Information Package / Course Catalogue
History of Economics
Course Code: ECN517
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

The main purpose of this course is to provide students not only having a general information and prediction about economic history but also comparative analysis at about economic theory and policy’s reflection on various countries in historic process...

Course Content

Economic Theories and the History of Development of Thought and Some Concepts Related to the History of Economic Thought, Mercantilist Economic Thought and its Basic Principles Classical Economic Thought and Adam Smith...

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Learning Outcomes
1.Explaining the beginning and process of economic history
2.Expressing the agricultural and industrial revolution, its results and the theories to explain the revolution.
3.Making interpretendings on the world economy and European economy at the first, middle and modern ages
4.To Comperative the Economy that based on the Liberal opinion and controlled market system, Making interpretation on the change in European balance of economic power and it’s effect on the world.
5.Explaining the mixed economy and welfare state in an ıntegrated Europe after the world war: the dynamism of keynesian economics
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Arif ERSOY, İktisadi Teoriler ve Düşünceler Tarihi, Nobel Kitabevi, Ankara, 2008.
2.Funda R. ADAÇAY ve Hasan İSLATİNCE, İktisadi Düşünceler Tarihi, Ekin Yayınevi, Bursa, 2009.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
The History of Economic Theories and Thought and Some Concepts Related to the History of Economic Thought
Week 2 - Theoretical
Economic Thought in the First Age: Ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Hebrews and Hittites, Economic Thought in the First Age: Ancient Greece and Rome
Week 3 - Theoretical
Economic Thought in Europe in the Middle Ages: Magnus, Aquinas, Oresme, Luther and Calvin
Week 4 - Theoretical
Economic Thought in the Islamic World in the Middle Ages: Al-Farabi, Al-Ghazali, Ibn Khaldun
Week 5 - Theoretical
Mercantilist Economic Thought and Its Basic Principles
Week 6 - Theoretical
Spanish, French, Italian, British and German Mercantilism and Thinkers
Week 7 - Theoretical
Physiocratic Economic Thought: Mirabeau, Turgot, de Nemours and Quesnay
Week 8 - Theoretical
Classical Economic Thought and Adam Smith
Week 9 - Intermediate Exam
Midterm Examination
Week 10 - Theoretical
Classical Economic Thought: J. Bentham, T.R. Malthus and D. Ricardo
Week 11 - Theoretical
Classical Economic Thought: N. W. Senior, J. B. Say, C. F. Bastiat, J.S. Mill
Week 12 - Theoretical
Neo-Classical Economic Thought: K. Menger, F. Von Wieser, E. von Böhm-Bawerk, L. Walras
Week 13 - Theoretical
Neo-Classical Economic Thought: V. Pareto, W. S. Jevons, A. Marshall, A.C. Pigou
Week 14 - Theoretical
Economic Thought in the 20th Century: Keynesian Theory and Dynamizing Keynesian Economics
Week 15 - Theoretical
Economic Thought in the 20th Century: Keynesian Theory and Dynamizing Keynesian Economics
Week 16 - Final Exam
Final Examination
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%30
Final Examination1%70
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Individual Work140228
Midterm Examination123225
Final Examination128230
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026