You will have two hours to answer two questions, one each from the parts of the course run by Prof. Broadberry and by me. You will have three questions from which to choose in each part. This is the same format as in previous years; an example is here. It would be a high-risk strategy to prepare just one topic, but you can probably get away with not preparing one or two that you did not enjoy.

A good answer will draw on the general context provided in the lectures, and supply additional detail from your reading and from the student-led seminar discussions. Relevant material from other courses would certainly be welcome, and could help give your answers distinctiveness and originality.

Most student presenters have shared notes or presentation slides with me. These can be downloaded below. Bear in mind that some of these are relevant for more than one topic, e.g. the papers on Protestantism at a local level are relevant both for "institutions" and "geography". Other (i.e. not presented) papers on the seminar pages could be useful if you decide to prepare one of those topics in greater detail.

Here are some recommendations as to the most important articles from the lecture reading lists for purposes of revision. The full bibliographic information is on the readings page for each topic.

Technology: Allen (2009, 1983), Crafts (2004), Nuvolari et al. (2011, 2009)

Geography: Crafts et al. (2005), Wolf (2009), Hornung (2015), Roses and Wolf (2018)

Distribution: Allen (2009 ["Engels' Pause"]), Cinnirella (2008), Milanovic (2016), Piketty (2014)

Institutions: Acemoglu et al. (2005) or Ogilvie and Carus (2014), Overton (1996), Allen (2009, 2004)

Distribution

Bertocchi, Graziella, and Monica Bozzano, "Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces," CESifo Economic Studies vol. 61 no. 1 (March 2015), pp. 263-300.
Presented by Giuliana Freschi: slides here

Clark, Greg, Neil Cummins, Yu Hao, and Dan Diaz Vidal, "Surnames: A new source for the history of social mobility," Explorations in Economic History, vol. 55 no. 1 (2015), pp.3-24.
Presented by Rachel McCririck: slides here

Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2014. Ch. 10.
Presented by Tim Lefroy: notes here

Geography

Cantoni, Davide, "The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands," Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 13 no. 4 (2015), pp. 561-98.
Presented by Franziska Hintze: slides here.

Gutberlet, Teresa, "Mechanization and the spatial distribution of industries in the German Empire, 1875 to 1907," Economic History Review, vol. 67 no. 2 (2014), pp. 463-91.
Presented by Marcel Schlepper: slides here.

Jedwab, R., E. Kerby, and A. Moradi, "History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railways, Settlers, and Cities in Keyna," Economic Journal, vol. 127 no. 603 (2017), pp. 1467-94.
Presented by Nadeen Nassar: slides here.

Institutions

Becker, Sascha, and Ludger Woessmann, "Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History," Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 124 no. 2 (2009), pp. 531-96.
Presented by Alec Goodwin.

Guiso, Luigi, Paola Sapienza, and Luigi Zingales, "Long-term Persistence," Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 14 no. 6 (Dec. 2016), pp. 1253-468.
Presented by Beatrice Faleri: slides here.

Harris, R. and N. Lamoreaux, "Opening the black box of the common-law legal regime: Contrasts in the development of corporate law in Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries," Business History, published online 5 Oct. 2018, part of Leslie Hannah Festschrift.
Presented by Roberto Ganau.

Technology

Horn, Jeff. The Path Not Taken. French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Esp. ch. 4 "The Other Great Fear: Labor Relations, Industrialization, and Revolution" pp. 89-125.
Presented by Victoria Gierok: slides here.

Marglin, Stephen, "What Do Bosses Do? The Origins and Function of Capitalist Hierarchy," Review of Radical Political Economy, vol. 6 (1974), pp. 60-112.
Presented by Asher Awinowicki Berkowitz-Werner.

Saxonhouse, Gary, and Gavin Wright, "National Leadership and Competing Technological Paradigms: The Globalization of Cotton Spinning, 1878-1933," Journal of Economic History, vol 70 no. 3 (2010), pp. 535-66.
Presented by Hugo Monnery: slides here.