Description du cours

Intitulé de l'Unité d'Enseignement

Political Economics

Code de l'Unité d'Enseignement

11UEC15

Année académique

2019 - 2020

Cycle

BAC

Nombre de crédits

Nombre heures

Quadrimestre

Pondération

Site

Montgomery

Langue d'enseignement

Anglais

Enseignant responsable

THIRY Géraldine

Objectifs et contribution de l'Unité d'Enseignement au programme

This course aims to give you the basics, both in macroeconomics and microeconomics, which will be essential for the student to understand the economic environment of a company or of an economic sector. This course aims to provide the concepts necessary to attend the courses “microeconomics” and “macroeconomics” (Block 2) as well as the courses “Economics of Strategy” and “International Economics and Business Cycles”. The course will present the key concepts of the economy starting from concrete issues and problems such as inequalities (intra- and international), the history of capitalism, environmental problems or economic crises and financial instability.

Prérequis et corequis

No prerequisite is required since it is an introductory course.

Description du contenu

The following units will be addressed:
Unit 1 – The Capitalist Revolution
(+ Measuring Living standard, Unit 13)
Unit 2 – Technology Population and Growth
Unit 8 – Supply and demand: Price-taking and competitive markets
Unit 9 – The labour market: Wages, profits, and unemployment
Unit 10 – Banks, money, and the credit market
Unit 14 – Unemployment and fiscal policy
Unit 15 – Inflation, unemployment, and monetary policy

Méthodes pédagogiques

This course is given in English, at the rate of 3 hours per week in the first quadrimester.

The course is designed to be integrated directly and therefore requires attendance at the course. At the beginning of each class, classroom exercises related to the previous session will be offered. Students are strongly advised to do these exercises! In addition, you will be given the opportunity to do practical exercises outside the course, using empirical data.

Mode d'évaluation

The course counts for 4 credits. Students will have to take a certificative evaluation. Due to the exceptional circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the evaluation will consist in a written exam (closed book), including closed theoretical questions under the form of multiple choices and numerical exercises similar to those discussed during the year.

Références bibliographiques

The textbook will be the free online manual "The Economy", produced and developed by the CORE-ECON project, by the CORE team, which brings together researchers and professors of economics from around the world (see https://www.core-econ.org ).

The manual is available free of charge (as an e-book) at this address: https://core-econ.org/the-economy/?lang=en. Alongside this textbook, you will find several educational resources (documents, databases, ...). To access these resources, you are asked to register here as a student: https://www.core-econ.org/about/?lang=fr.