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.
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, Rich Salerno
The Keynesian school - Keynes and post - Keynesian
A. RONCAGLIA, Breve storia del pensiero economico, LATERZA, BARI, 2016, pp. 1-321 (4 CFU).
- P. Travagliante, Tra classicismo e marginalismo, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2011, pp. 1-140. (2 CFU).
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