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Introduction: what we mean by economics. The market. Demand and supply. Rationality and equilibrium. Consumer behavior. Budget constraint, preferences, utility function, consumer choice. The choice between consumption and leisure. Firm behavior. Profit maximization and the choice of the optimal output. The choice of technique. The choice of output in the short and in the long run. Competitive markets. The market of goods. The market of factors. Partial equilibrium and general equilibrium. Basics on imperfect competition: monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition. National accounts and the interactions among the main macroeconomic variables. The role of fiscal and monetary policies.

No prerequisite.

Students can use the teaching material that the teacher makes available on his website (https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/riccardotilli/insegnamenti). This teaching material alone is not sufficient for an adequate exam preparation. The topics contained in the teaching material must be deepened and integrated with the following textbook: G. Di Barlolomeo, E. Saltari, R. Tilli, Principi di Economia Politica, Carocci, 2019 (the student can easily find the topics contained in the teaching material in the recommended textbook).

The course Foundations of economics is structured in 48 hours of lectures and aims to provide students the basic concepts of the modern economic theory. The course is divided into two parts: microeconomics and macroeconomics. The first part examines the logic of individual rational choices for consumers and firms in order to understand the mechanisms that determine the resource allocation and the determination of equilibrium quantities and prices in individual markets. The analysis is based on the study of the individual behavior of consumers and firms and the interaction between economic agents in different market context (perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition). The second part focuses on the functioning of the economy as a whole. The goal is to provide tools for analysis and explanation of the main macroeconomic variables (production, employment, consumption, investment, public budget, interest rates, labor productivity), in the short and in the long run, the main problems that industrialized economies are often faced with (unemployment, inflation, public debt) and the role of economic policy in affecting the performance of the economic system.

Attendance of the course is optional.

To pass the exam you must obtain a score of not less than 18/30. The student must demonstrate that he has acquired sufficient knowledge of the topics related to micro and macroeconomics and be able to understand in a rigorous manner economic themes on national and international level. To achieve a score of 30/30 cum laude, the student has to demonstrate that he has acquired excellent knowledge of all the topics covered during the course, being able to link them in a logical and consistent way.

The course Foundations of economics is structured in 48 hours of lectures and aims to provide students the basic concepts of the modern economic theory. The course is divided into two parts: microeconomics and macroeconomics. The first part examines the logic of individual rational choices for consumers and firms in order to understand the mechanisms that determine the resource allocation and the determination of equilibrium quantities and prices in individual markets. The analysis is based on the study of the individual behavior of consumers and firms and the interaction between economic agents in different market context (perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition). The second part focuses on the functioning of the economy as a whole. The goal is to provide tools for analysis and explanation of the main macroeconomic variables (production, employment, consumption, investment, public budget, interest rates, labor productivity), in the short and in the long run, the main problems that industrialized economies are often faced with (unemployment, inflation, public debt) and the role of economic policy in affecting the performance of the economic system.

Introduction: what we mean by economics. The market. Demand and supply. Rationality and equilibrium. Consumer behavior. Budget constraint, preferences, utility function, consumer choice. The choice between consumption and leisure. Firm behavior. Profit maximization and the choice of the optimal output. The choice of technique. The choice of output in the short and in the long run. Competitive markets. The market of goods. The market of factors. Partial equilibrium and general equilibrium. Basics on imperfect competition: monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition. National accounts and the interactions among the main macroeconomic variables. The role of fiscal and monetary policies.

No prerequisite.

Students can use the teaching material that the teacher makes available on his website (https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/riccardotilli/insegnamenti). This teaching material alone is not sufficient for an adequate exam preparation. The topics contained in the teaching material must be deepened and integrated with the following textbook: G. Di Barlolomeo, E. Saltari, R. Tilli, Principi di Economia Politica, Carocci, 2019 (the student can easily find the topics contained in the teaching material in the recommended textbook).

The course Foundations of economics is structured in 48 hours of lectures and aims to provide students the basic concepts of the modern economic theory. The course is divided into two parts: microeconomics and macroeconomics. The first part examines the logic of individual rational choices for consumers and firms in order to understand the mechanisms that determine the resource allocation and the determination of equilibrium quantities and prices in individual markets. The analysis is based on the study of the individual behavior of consumers and firms and the interaction between economic agents in different market context (perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition). The second part focuses on the functioning of the economy as a whole. The goal is to provide tools for analysis and explanation of the main macroeconomic variables (production, employment, consumption, investment, public budget, interest rates, labor productivity), in the short and in the long run, the main problems that industrialized economies are often faced with (unemployment, inflation, public debt) and the role of economic policy in affecting the performance of the economic system.

Attendance of the course is optional.

To pass the exam you must obtain a score of not less than 18/30. The student must demonstrate that he has acquired sufficient knowledge of the topics related to micro and macroeconomics and be able to understand in a rigorous manner economic themes on national and international level. To achieve a score of 30/30 cum laude, the student has to demonstrate that he has acquired excellent knowledge of all the topics covered during the course, being able to link them in a logical and consistent way.

The course Foundations of economics is structured in 48 hours of lectures and aims to provide students the basic concepts of the modern economic theory. The course is divided into two parts: microeconomics and macroeconomics. The first part examines the logic of individual rational choices for consumers and firms in order to understand the mechanisms that determine the resource allocation and the determination of equilibrium quantities and prices in individual markets. The analysis is based on the study of the individual behavior of consumers and firms and the interaction between economic agents in different market context (perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition). The second part focuses on the functioning of the economy as a whole. The goal is to provide tools for analysis and explanation of the main macroeconomic variables (production, employment, consumption, investment, public budget, interest rates, labor productivity), in the short and in the long run, the main problems that industrialized economies are often faced with (unemployment, inflation, public debt) and the role of economic policy in affecting the performance of the economic system.