To explain concepts and provide notions useful to understand the functioning of modern economies. This is an introductive course to the main economic concepts.
1) The principles that characterize a market economy
Reference: MT15-ch1
2) Tools to understand the economy: models and graphics
Reference: MT15-ch2: pag.20-24, pag.29-38
3) Market forces of supply and demand
Reference: MT15-ch3
4) Buyers, Sellers and Market Efficiency
Reference: MT15-cap.7
5) Interdependence and benefits of the exchange
Reference: MT15-ch19
6) An Overview of International Trade
Reference: Lecturer’s handout
7) Globalization of Production
Reference: Lecturer’s handout
8) Measuring the income of a country
Reference: MT15-ch20
9) Inequality of income and poverty
Reference: MT15-ch18
10) Production and Growth
Reference: MT15-ch22
11) Savings, investment and financial system
Reference: MT15-ch24
12) Flows of international goods and capital, exchange rates
Reference: MT15-cap.28 : pag 550-556
13) The financial crisis of 2008/09, Europe’s Debt Crisis
Reference: MT15-ch37
14) Economic Institutions in Italy
Reference: Lecturer’s handout
MT15: Principi di Economia, N. G. Mankiw & M. P. Taylor, 2015 (6a edizione italiana), Zanichelli.
There is a book titled “L’Essenziale di Economia” that is a short version of the book “Principi di Economia”, both are edited by N. G. Mankiw & M. P. Taylor. All chapters in “L’Essenziale” are included in ‘Principi’. “L’Essenziale” is less expensive and could be sufficient if summed with the missing chapters present in “Principi”.
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