Academic year: 2023-24
Course: Foundation Course Science
Credits: 3
Period: Second semester
Number of hours: 24
Teacher(s): Alberto Bianchi (alberto.bianchi@ec.unipi.it)
Language of instruction: English
Learning Outcomes
The students who successfully complete the course will have the necessary methodological bases in the Economics field to face the study of scientific subjects at a university level.
Prerequisites
Elementary Mathematics
Teaching Methods
Lectures, exercises in class
Syllabus
Thinking like an economist
How a capitalist economy works
The market forces of supply and demand
The meaning of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
Elasticity and its application
Consumers, producers and the efficiency of markets
Firms in competitive markets
Monopoly
International trade and globalization
Management principles in a capitalist firm
The multinational companies
Bibliography
N. Gregory Mankiw, Principle of Microeconomics, Eighth Edition, Harvard University, 2016
Assessment methods
Written test