I. Introduction: Why Are Some Nations Rich and Some Poor?

• Economic History as the Empirical Study of Long Run Changes in Economic Development

II. From Story-Telling to the Rise of the New Economic History (also Cliometrics)

1. The Development of National Income Accounting
2. Importance of the Neoclassical/Solow Growth Model
3. Rostow and the Stages of Economic Growth
4. Mathematics, Econometrics and History: the Invention of Cliometrics
5. From Success to Stagnation

III. North and the Rise of the New Institutional Economics

• The shift from macro modeling to considering the role of political economy, law, and organization

IV. Core of the NIE Methodology

• The problem of credible commitment
• The conflict between production and predation

V. Methodological Pluralism

• Case studies, game theory, micro analysis
• The new institutional narrative as analytical synthesis

VI. Where Do We Go From Here?