HIST 12DInequality: Global History of Capitalism
History · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Study of past 500 years of global economic history. Consideration of myth of economic growth, justice of distribution, and experiments with alternatives to capitalism. Introduction to foundational theoretical works that span ideological spectrums, contextualized in specific historical situations of both Western and non-Western regions. Attention to non-Western regions challenges conventional ideas of capitalism and prominence of West in capitalism scholarship.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Summer 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
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