Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"

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  3. POLITICAL ECONOMICS

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POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Teaching schedule

Academic year: 
2019/2020
Belonging course: 
Course of Bachelor's Degree Programme on ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
Location: 
Napoli
Disciplinary sector: 
ECONOMICS (SECS-P/01)
Language: 
Italian
Credits: 
9
Year of study: 
1
Teachers: 
Prof.ssa D'UVA Marcella
Cycle: 
Second semester
Hours of front activity: 
72

Language

Italian

Course description

Learning objectives
objective of the course is to furnish the basic elements of microeconomic and macroeconomics theories.

Knowledge and understanding: the student should be, first, able to analyse the behaviour of economic operators and the relationships among them in the different market types. The student should also know some key concept of macroeconomics.

Applying knowledge and understanding: the student should apply the acquired theoretical knowledge to real world.

Making judgements: the student should apply a critical approach in the study and should be able to increase autonomously his knowledge.

Comunication: the student must answer with correct use of economic language, in a concise and exhaustive way to the open-ended questions combining the answers (in the requested cases) with an accurate graphical analysis.

Lifelong learning skills: the students must have acquired the basic instruments of microeconomics and macroeconomics and prove to have a good learning level to face the subsequent exams of the course.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of basic tools of the graphs’ analysis

Syllabus

Chapters 1,2,3,4,5 (except for paragraph 5.6),6,7,8 (except for paragraph 8.8), 10 (only paragraphs 1,3), 17,18 (only paragraphs 1,2,3,5,6),20 (only paragraphs 1,2,3,5), 23 (only introduction), 24 (only paragraphs 1 and 2), 25 (only paragraphs 1 and 2, 3 and 4).

Additional reading will be provided during the course

I MODULE-26 hours
Consumer’s theory: preferences, utility maximization, optimal choice, individual demand curve; market demand.
II MODULE-26 hours
Firm theory: profit maximization, supply curve, competitive market, monopoly, oligopoly.
III MODULE-20 hours
National domestic product and aggregate expenditure. Money and monetary policies. Inflation. Unemployment. Balance of payment and exchange rate. Mock exam.

Teaching Methods

lectures and tutorials on some topics

Textbooks

Begg D., Vernasca G, Fisher S., Dornbusch R., Economia, VI edizione, McGraw-Hill

Learning assessment

Written final exam. The exam consists in open-ended questions and exercises on the course themes. It is possible also an oral examination (in some cases) in order to better evaluate the student’s knowledge.
Due to the Covid19 pandemic, the exam, actually, consists of both a written exam, using the Moodle platform and respondus software, and an oral exam using the Teams platform

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