HIST 12D
Inequality: Global History of Capitalism
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. 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.
Course statistics
- Predicted GPA
- 3.90
- n = 53 · 1 term · ± 0.067
- A range
- 96%
- of letter grades
- Taken P/NP
- 2%
- 100% of those passed
- D / F / W
- 0.0%
- incl. withdrawals
Sections in Fall 2026
Enrollment history
Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.
- 5625S
Grade distribution
- A+ 1 · 1.8%
- A 47 · 83.9%
- A- 3 · 5.4%
- B+ 1 · 1.8%
- C+ 1 · 1.8%
- P 1 · 1.8%
- I 2 · 3.6%
Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted | Raw | n | Terms | A range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, MENG | 3.93 | 3.94 | 53 | 1 | 96% |
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
By term
- 25S 3.94 n=53