A History of the Global Economy from Medieval Times to Today

A History of the Global Economy from Medieval Times to Today
Published 6/2026
Created by Arcana Academy
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: All Levels | Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 10 Lectures ( 1h 38m ) | Size: 1.1 GB
Discover the unconventional forces, financial crises, and strategic shifts that shaped modern capitalism.

What you'll learn

⚡ Trace the evolution of global trade and finance from medieval merchant networks to modern financial markets
⚡ Identify the recurring patterns of credit cycles, asset bubbles, and economic crises across eight centuries of history
⚡ Analyze landmark financial crises — from the tulip mania to 2008 — and extract strategic lessons applicable today
⚡ Understand how monetary systems, central banks, and sovereign debt have shaped geopolitical and economic power
⚡ Connect historical precedents to current market dynamics, improving strategic and investment decision-making

Requirements

❗ No economics degree required — curiosity about history, finance, and how the world works is enough to get started

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Are you ready to look beyond standard textbooks and understand how the modern worldreally works?
Most history courses give you dates and events. Most economics courses give you abstract equations. This course bridges the gap, offering astrategic, unconventional, and deeply analytical journey through the evolution of global capitalism—from the collapse of medieval manors to the digital and fragmented markets of the 21st century.
If you want to understand the hidden drivers of wealth, power, global inequality, and financial crises, you need to look at the institutional and structural shifts that shaped human history.
Why this course is different
This is not a linear memorization of facts. It is a strategic masterclass designed to give you anunconventional edge in reading global macroeconomic cycles. We will dissect the duel between geography, culture, and institutions, examining how networks of exchange evolved and why some nations succeeded while others fell behind.
To guarantee maximum academic rigor and depth, the curriculum is entirely built upon the foundational works of the world's greatest economic historians, sociologists, and thinkers. You will not just learn economic history; you will learn how to analyze it through the lenses ofAdam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Karl Polanyi, Joseph Schumpeter, Douglass North, Branko Milanovic, and Adam Tooze.
What You Will Master
Throughout our journey, we will explore 9 strategic eras
✨The Awakening of Institutions (10th–15th Century): The transition from feudalism, the security of contracts, and commercial trust.
✨The Software of Faith & Leviathan (16th–17th Century): Religion as an economic motor, the "spirit" of capitalism, and war as a creator of states.
✨The Great Divergence & Innovation (18th Century): The rise of pro-market rhetoric and the gap between East and West.
✨Steam, Capital, & Revolution (1760–1850): The anatomy of the Industrial Revolution and the profound critique of capital.
✨Economic Backwardness & Creative Destruction (1850–1914): Late industrialization, managerial revolutions, and status consumption.
✨The Collapse & Great Transformation (1914–1945): The end of the gold standard, manias, panics, and the global Great Depression.
✨The Battle of Ideas & Political Order (1945–1980): State planning versus market freedom, and development in the periphery.
✨Globalization & Inequality (1980–2008): Neoliberalism, the rise of network societies, and global balance shifts.
✨Post-Crisis Capitalism & Fragmentation (2008–Present): The aftermath of The Great Recession, digital capitalism, and 21st-century geopolitical tensions.
Our Academic Foundations (Selected Bibliography Included in the Course)
By enrolling, you will gain structural insights derived directly from a world-class curriculum, including
✨Classical & Institutional Foundations: Douglass North (Institutions ), Avner Greif, Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson (Why Nations Fail ), and Adam Smith (Wealth of Nations ).
✨Sociology & Capitalism's Spirit: Max Weber, R.H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi (The Great Transformation ), and Émile Durkheim.
✨Macroeconomics, Crises & Modernity: John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Charles Kindleberger (Manias, Panics, and Crashes ), and Adam Tooze (Crashed ).
✨Global Dynamics & Inequality: Kenneth Pomeranz (The Great Divergence ), Fernand Braudel, Thomas Piketty, and Branko Milanovic.

Who this course is for

⭐ Finance and business professionals seeking historical context to sharpen their strategic and market intuition
⭐ Educated general learners curious about how money, debt, and power have shaped the modern world
⭐ Investors and analysts who want to recognize recurring economic patterns across cycles and crises

Homepage

https://www.udemy.com/course/a-history-of-the-global-economy-from-medieval-times-to-today

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