Sociology

MARCO ROSSI

1. Knowledge and understanding: this course should provide the students with a general introduction to the study of Economics, in its main sub-disciplines, the Microeconomics (consumption, production and price formation in markets) and Macroeconomics (GDP, Employment and Growth).
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: after having passed the exam students should be able to to apply the major economic tools learned during the course to their future work interests
3. Critical faculties: students are expected to be able to read and interpret an economic diagram as well a table of economic data.
4. Communications skills. Students are expected to master the economic reasoning and the appropriate terminology used in economic disciplines.
5. Learning skills: by training in the use of simple economic models and in the reading of economic data the students will be able to use both tools in their future career

Knowledge of basic economics

High school education

1. Knowledge and understanding: this course should provide the students with a general introduction to the study of Economics, in its main sub-disciplines, the Microeconomics (consumption, production and price formation in markets) and Macroeconomics (GDP, Employment and Growth).
2. Applying knowledge and understanding: after having passed the exam students should be able to to apply the major economic tools learned during the course to their future work interests
3. Critical faculties: students are expected to be able to read and interpret an economic diagram as well a table of economic data.
4. Communications skills. Students are expected to master the economic reasoning and the appropriate terminology used in economic disciplines.
5. Learning skills: by training in the use of simple economic models and in the reading of economic data the students will be able to use both tools in their future career

"Economics" by Samuelson, Nordhaus, Bollino and Polidori; XXII ed.; MacGraw Hill editor.

Live teaching in the classroom.

Frre attendance of classroom lectures

Mutiple choice and mathematical tests

If the demand of a good is not fully satisfied by its supply, the, the price is:
a) below its equilibrium level
a) above its equilibrium level
a) equal to its equilibrium level
a) infinite.

• Introduction to basic economics (8 hrs. 1 cfu)
  • Books: "Economics" by Samuelson et al. cap. 1-2.


• Introduction to microeconomics (32 hrs., 4 cfu)
  • Books: "Economics" by Samuelson et al. cap. 3-13.


• Introduction to macroeconomics (32 hrs., 4 cfu)
  • Books: "Economics" by Samuelson et al. cap. 14-27.