ISC 205-01 (A Minerva Course)
Inequality:  Economic and Social Perspectives

Teresa Meade and Eshragh Motahar/Fall 2015

       

Steve Sargent

Inequality in Feudal and Early Capitalist Economies, 1000-1600
Monday, September 14, 2015, Olin 115

This lecture will cover the transition from the feudal economies of the High Middle Ages (1000-1300) to the merchant capitalism of Dutch Golden Age (1600) with an emphasis on coerced labor as a source of exceptional profits.

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