HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT

SECS-P/04 - 9 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

FRANCA PIROLO


Learning Objectives

  1. Knowledge and understanding. The course aims to give students thetools to know and understand the main economic theories in their historical path, from the eighteenth to the twentieth century: from Mercantilism to Quesnay's Physiocrat School, from the thought of Smith, Ricardo and Marx (Classical School), to the Marginalist School, from the neoclassical to the "General Theory" of J.M. Keynes.
  2. Applying knowledgeand understanding. The student through the knowledge and tha analysis of the historical dimension in economic theories must be able to interpret economic facts by combining the narration of the authors with the dominant paradigm of the period considered.
  3. Making judgments. The student who has acquired the key concepts of economic theories must demonstrate the abilityof a personal and critical interpretation of the issues treated, considering that the economic theories have matured at different times and that economic theorists had to confront with various historical realities.
  4. Communication skills. The didactics aime to provide students by classroom discussions and group or individual workshops with debate skills, focusing on improving the public speech skills.
  5. Learning skills. The goal of this course is to provide students with the elements that enable them to analyze the facts and the problems of the economics, to identify possible connections with other branches of knowledge and to evaluate the economic models and their developments throughout the centuries.


Detailed Course Content

Frontal lessons with use of slides, classroom discussions, in-depth readings, seminars and possible tests during the course, aimed to verify the knowledge acquired.



Textbook Information

A. RONCAGLIA, THE WEALTH OF IDEAS: AN HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT, ROMA-BARI, LATERZA 2012 (chapters from 2 to 16)




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