Economic & Business History
Revision for Economic & Business History: notes on 15 units, 369 practice questions with explanations, 104 flashcards and 92 common traps, plus timed mock papers marked like the real quiz (+1 correct · −0.25 wrong · 0 blank). Free, and it remembers what you get wrong.
What's covered
Economics, business & history
Economics · Business · History, and what this course means by it · Textbook: Introduction · Textbook: Out of Africa and into Agriculture
Economy → business: License Raj
License Raj · The Scooters Control Order and Bajaj Auto
Society and technology → business
Society → business: localisation · Technology → business, and PESTEL
Business → society & economy
The origin of the weekend · How business reshapes society and the economy · Textbook: The Industrial Revolution and the Wealth of Nations
Agrarian economies & land ownership
What an agrarian economy is · Feudalism vs the Zamindari system · Textbook: Out of Africa and into Agriculture · Textbook: The Grand Canal, the Printing Press and the Plague
Guilds & early trade organisations
What a guild was, and why they arose · The three-rung hierarchy · The four functions of a guild · Why the guild system declined · Textbook: The Grand Canal, the Printing Press and the Plague
Life before machines
The Agricultural Revolution · The putting-out system
Machines, factories & steam
Why machines — the three drivers · The four inventions · The water frame and the factory · Steam and Manchester · Live Lecture 4: water, steam and the factory system · Textbook: The Industrial Revolution · Textbook: The Industrial Revolution and the Wealth of Nations
Why Britain? High wages, cheap energy & the Industrial Revolution
Textbook: The Industrial Revolution · Textbook: The Industrial Revolution and the Wealth of Nations
Economic thought: from Adam Smith to Keynes
Textbook: The Industrial Revolution and the Wealth of Nations
Labour movements & working conditions
Why workers organised: the triggers · What the labour movement is · Phase one (1760s–1820s): suppression and Peterloo · Phase two (1824–1830): the repeal of the Combination Acts · The 1824–25 strike wave and the 1825 Act · Live Lecture 4: labour movement recap and clarifications · Phase three (1830s–1850s): national unions · The Tolpuddle Martyrs (1834) · Legislative wins: the Factory Act to the Public Health Act · Chartism and the New Model Unions
Colonies, mercantilism & a global Industrial Revolution
Colonies, mercantilism and a global Industrial Revolution
Capitalism, socialism & communism
Capitalism and why it rose · Transport: canals, turnpikes and railway mania · Socialism and communism · Mixed economies, and the pros-and-cons question · Pros, cons and sector fit of the three systems
Social & cultural life in the Industrial Revolution
Cities, family and the three classes · Science, reason and social awareness · Women, individualism and standard time
Evolution of management thought
From rule of thumb to a science of management · Division of labour: Adam Smith (1776) · Taylor and scientific management · Criticisms of scientific management
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