Principles of Political Economy. The economic model of supply and demand; consumer’s and producer’s behaviour model, competitive market, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly. Introduction to welfare Economics. National accounts, Keynesian explanation of the Economy and its evolution, Keynes’ critical analysis and economic policy measures arising from the most relevant explanations of the economic system.
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This course in Economics aims at providing the basic notions of
microeconomics and macroeconomics which are necessary to understand
the working of modern globalized economies.Special attention will be
given to those features of microeconomics which are more relevant for
law students,such as:externalities,public goods and asymmetric
information,non perfectly competitive markets and antitrust policies,the
role of the State in the markets,firm theory and corporate governance.
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Demand and supply of goods and services, market forms, market failures, public intervention. National income; growth, unemployment, inflation; international trade, exchange rate, globalization, euro and European Monetary Union.
J. SLOMAN, D. GARRATT, Elementi di economia, pp. 440, euro 32,00, 978-88-15-13862-0.
year of publication 2010. Website available.
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The course gives the fundamentals of the economic analysis to law students.
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High school general culture and elements of graphical analysis.
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Lectures.
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For students attending the lectures: November, intermediate written test in Microeconomics. December, first exam session: written test in Macroeconomics, for student who have passed the test in Microeconomics.
All others: oral exams.
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All info (in Italian) on this website:
http://dse.ec.unipi.it/~giocoli/Pagina%20Web%20personale_file/EP-FI%20dispen
se/Dispense%20EP-FI.htm