Enrollment year
2009/2010
Academic discipline
SECS-P/01 (POLITICAL ECONOMY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Course
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (28/09/2009 - 19/12/2009)
Lesson hours
60 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN TEST
Prerequisites
Basic logical reasoning and very elementary mathematics
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to provide students with a solid understanding of the basic principles of economics, and particularly of microeconomic theory, in order to give them the pre-requisites needed for more specialised courses in economics.
Course contents
The main topics discussed in this course are: contents and methods of economic theory
- Supply and demand: how markets work
- Elasticity and its application
- Consumers, producers and the efficiency of markets
- The theory of consumer choice
- Firm behavior and costs of production
- Firms in competitive markets
- Monopoly
- Oligopoly
- Monopolistic competition
- The economics of labor markets
Teaching methods
Lectures and exercises
Reccomended or required readings
Assessment methods
Written examination
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