My daughter, who is currently a freshman, has a minor scholarship to spend on educational activities this summer. Her current plan is to double major in economics and history. She'd like to spend the scholarship on a more in-depth comparative economics and economic history tour of Europe during our family vacation to Europe.
What we'd like are suggestions for economically oriented museums and tours, and possibly week long seminars but we don't have much hope for that. She is fluent for everyday speech in French, but probably not ready for college level economics in that language. She's a capable young lady and I'd feel quite safe letting her detour from our route for a few days or weeks if the destinations are important. She could arrive a week early for a seminar, if she flies into someplace relatively comfortable for her like Paris or London where she speaks the language. Brussels in particular might be a good detour for her if there is much for her to do at the EU Parliament. I suspect Berlin might be another good detour destination for her given it's communist/fascist/capitalist/socialist history.
She is considering looking into the economics of drugs and prostitution in Amsterdam as well as the history of trade during Amsterdam's mercantile height, possibly the tulip bubble, and the economics of Dutch imperialism; fascism in Vienna; communism and fascism in Prague; socialism in Paris as well as the economics leading up to the French Revolution and economics during the Napoleonic Era; mercantilism, capitalism, and the economics of the British Empire.
Our plans are from late June to late July:
Amsterdam: 7 nights
Night Train to Munich: 1 night
Salzburg: 3 nights
Vienna: 6 nights
Cesky Krumlov: 1 night
Prague: 6 nights
Night Train to Cologne: 1 night
Paris: 5 nights
London: 4 nights
She and I are finding some good museum and tour possibilities here and there. But we'd love some help with either tour or museum recommendations, on or doably off our route. Anything related to economics or history related to economics is on the table.
The budget is $2000. We will cover her plane tickets to Europe, and lodging and meals with the family. Special tours, museums, lodging apart from us, and travel without us will be covered by the scholarship. We'd be willing to kick in another $500 or so to make a special detour workable.