Course Description

In this course, we’ll study variety of global economic events which made a great impact on post war world and on Japanese economy. It includes (a) worldwide trend of " big-government" after the Great Depression in 1930s such as the New Deal of US, (b) the world economic control system or the Bretton Woods system which governed the world free-market economy until 1970s, (c) decline of the power of US economy as a result of the cold war, (d) the Nixon Shock and the double Oil Shocks which changed world economic policy preference from big-government to small-government, (e) the history of world oil industry, (f) Japanese economic structural changes after 1980s, and so on.