Economics

The course aims to present, through the language of public economics, how to analyze the main themes of modern microeconomics and the tools needed to understand the macroeconomic system - with particular attention to those issues which are relevant to the economic and political reality and fundamental in the Italian and European economic policy debate - and to critically discuss the various economic policies and the role of the national state and of the European institutions.

At the end of the course the student will know the basic language of economics and how to understand and discuss: the problems of consumer's choice, the functioning of the demand and supply market and the mechanisms for price formation; the main economic aggregates (such as unemployment, inflation, national income, public spending, public debt and their interactions in developed market economies); the aims and effects of national and European economic policies. The student will be able to understand the functioning of financial markets and national economies in the European context and to understand the interactions between the financial market and the real economy and the importance of the role of the public operator for law enforcement policies of the fluctuations of the economic cycle. The student will also know how to use the tools provided to critically analyze the functioning of modern market economies and to understand and he/she will know how to discuss and evaluate the various economic policies and the role of the national state and of the European institutions.