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B029745 - ECONOMICS OF PUBLIC CHOICES
Main information
Teaching Language
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
Teaching Methods
Further information
Type of Assessment
Academic Year 2020-21
Coorte 2019 - Second Cycle Degree in POLITICS, INSTITUTIONS AND MARKET
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Political and Social Sciences (DSPS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
SECS-P/01 - ECONOMICS
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
42
Teaching Term
22/02/2021 ⇒ 28/05/2021
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Parts of the textbook by Stiglitz/Rosengard, Public Sector Economy, Hoepli , THIRD edition; with the addition of texts provided during the course.
for non-attending students, the following are added: Barca F., Giovannini E., 2020, Quel mondoiffer, Edizioni Laterza. Fioramonti L., THE world after GDP, Edizioni Ambiente. chapter 3 of the text: Economy, Society, and Public Policy, CORE
for non-attending students, the following are added: Barca F., Giovannini E., 2020, Quel mondoiffer, Edizioni Laterza. Fioramonti L., THE world after GDP, Edizioni Ambiente. chapter 3 of the text: Economy, Society, and Public Policy, CORE
Learning Objectives
The course aims to train students from the fundamentals of the welfare economy to illustrate - both the regulatory and the positive point of view - the main aspects of public intervention in modern economies, with particular attention to measures of well-being and quality of life and to the policies for economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Prerequisites
Basic Microeconomics
Teaching Methods
frontal lectures and student reports
Further information
Course attendance is strongly recommended: the overall organisation is designed to integrate a guided part of the work on the manuals with an active part of the students who will be encouraged to work in groups and take part in discussions.
Type of Assessment
The evaluation of the attending student includes a series of tests announced during the lessons including oral presentations supported by a Power Point presentation prepared from books and/or articles of scientific literature. In the oral presentation, the student will have to demonstrate the ability to analyse the selected economic literature, the ability to synthesise and the ability to communicate both through images and orally the content of his/her research on the chosen topic. The texts will be selected on the basis of the teacher's recommendation and the student's brief bibliographic research. The duration of the presentation depends on the number of participants and will be fixed during the lessons.
The final evaluation will take into account the activity shown during the lessons and the quality of the tests proposed and taken.
Non-attending students will only take a written examination with three open questions, each taken from the following three texts:
1) first 10 chapters of the above textbook (Stiglitz/Rosengard).
2) Fioramonti L., Il mondo dopo il PIL, Edizioni ambiente.
3) chapter 3 of the text: Economy, Society, and Public Policy, CORE.
In the written test, the student must demonstrate familiarity with and knowledge of the course content, the ability to organise the knowledge acquired and to express it in appropriate language.
The final evaluation will take into account the activity shown during the lessons and the quality of the tests proposed and taken.
Non-attending students will only take a written examination with three open questions, each taken from the following three texts:
1) first 10 chapters of the above textbook (Stiglitz/Rosengard).
2) Fioramonti L., Il mondo dopo il PIL, Edizioni ambiente.
3) chapter 3 of the text: Economy, Society, and Public Policy, CORE.
In the written test, the student must demonstrate familiarity with and knowledge of the course content, the ability to organise the knowledge acquired and to express it in appropriate language.