Provide the basic tools to frame the phenomena of growth and economic development in the transition from pre-industrial systems to economic systems based on the market economy and the production of goods on an industrial scale.

At the end of the course the student will have acquired:
1) Knowledge and understanding: obtaining knowledge on the factors influencing economic development;
2) Applying knowledge and understanding: analyze the role of economic, social, institutional and geographical factors in economic development;
3) Making judgements: ability to analyze and interpret the role of factors influencing economic development in a spatial and temporal comparative perspective;
4) Communication skills: increasing the ability to synthesize a specific topic;
5) Learning skills: allow the student to analyze the process of growth in an economic and historical perspectives.