HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT

SECS-P/04 - 6 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

GIUSEPPA TRAVAGLIANTE


Learning Objectives

Acquiring the tools of basic understanding of the main schools of economic thought related to scientific and cultural context, the change of forms of production and economic organization and the passage from modern age to contemporary age.


Course Structure

Frontal lessons and seminarial activities.



Detailed Course Content

I Profile of economic science, its evolution and the different economic doctrines, with particular attention to the problems of growth, economic cycles, debate between liberalism and protectionism and to the following schools:

The classical school - Smith, Ricardo, Marx

The neoclassical school and marginalism - Walras, Jevons, Menger, Sax

II Ricca Salerno

The Keynesian school - Keynes and post – Keynesian



Textbook Information

I A. RONCAGLIA, Breve storia del pensiero economico, LATERZA, BARI, 2016, pp. 1-331 (4 CFU).

II P. Travagliante, Tra classicismo e marginalismo, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2011, pp. 1-148 (2 CFU).

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