International Economic Geography

The course aims to develop the theoretical and spatial analysis skills of the main economic phenomena of today's world in the students of the master's degree course. Students are enabled to interpret economic phenomena in a critical and personal way both through the acquisition of concepts and through the analysis of statistical and cartographic information. They are also enabled to identify the interrelationships and reciprocal influences between the phenomena of development and economic decline that exist between the different territories. Particular attention will be paid to the issues of cooperation and international economic competition, in harmony with the more general training provided for in the master's degree course. The fundamental purposes of the teaching are to arouse the autonomy of judgment and the ability to communicate about the main international economic relations.

Students must acquire the knowledge, language and conceptual and cartographic analysis skills to know and geographically analyze the current phase of international economic relations, with particular attention to the phenomena of take-off, decline and economic innovation.