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POLICY MAKING
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POLICY MAKING
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Anno accademico 2021/2022
- Codice dell'attività didattica
- SEM0104
- Docente
- Enrico Colombatto (Titolare del corso)
- Corso di studi
- ECONOMIA - percorso in Economia e Data Science
ECONOMIA - percorso in Economia e Finanza
ECONOMIA - percorso in Economia e Management
ECONOMIA - percorso in Scienze Economiche - Anno
- 3° anno
- Periodo didattico
- Primo semestre
- Tipologia
- Caratterizzante
- Crediti/Valenza
- 6
- SSD dell'attività didattica
- SECS-P/02 - politica economica
- Modalità di erogazione
- Tradizionale
- Lingua di insegnamento
- Inglese
- Modalità di frequenza
- Facoltativa
- Tipologia d'esame
- Scritto
- Prerequisiti
- Microeconomics and macroeconomics. Students are encouraged to acquire basic notions of economic history and of the history of economic thought.
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Sommario insegnamento
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Obiettivi formativi
The course aims at ensuring that students become familar with the basic principles and analytical instruments necessary to understand the main issues involved in current policymaking and develop independent ideas and value judgments.
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Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
Consistent reasoning, clarity of thought, analytical rigour and autonomous thinking.
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Modalità di insegnamento
The course includes 48 hours of classroom teaching in the first semester (September-December 2021).
All changes regarding the timetable will be advertised on Moodle.
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Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
The exam takes place in a classroom and consists of two small essays of less than 300 words each. Candidates have 90 minutes at their disposal, during which no smartphones, laptops, tablets are allowed in the classroom. Failure to comply with this requirement invalidates the test. There is no oral exam.
Grading is out of 30 points.
All students can prepare the exam by referring to the required readings mentioned below.
Those who sit the exam during the winter session (December 2021-February 2022) can ask to be tested according to what has been explained and discussed in the classroom, and disregard the reading list.
The candidates can sit the exam only if they registred during the previous weeks.
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Attività di supporto
Office hours: two hours at the end of each lecture (first semseter), and by appointment during the entire year.
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Programma
The course analyses current issues in economic policymaking, with an emphasis on
Methodological issues and basic principles
Legitimacy and social contracts
Welfare economics and general equilibrium
The economics of regulation
Opportunism, public goods and merit goods
Poverty and redistribution
Principles of taxation
Say's law as opposed to aggregate-demand theorising
The role of central banking and monetary policy
The business cycle
Those unable or unwilling to attend the lectures should refer to the texts mentioned in the reading list.
Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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Required Readings:
Enrico Colombatto, The Economics You Need, Routledge 2016 (chapter 1).
Peter Murphy, Limited Government, Routledge 2019 (pp. 9-12).
Kip Viscusi et al., Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, MIT Press 2018 (chapters 10-12, 14).
Peter Anderson, “Say’s law in context”, Mises Daily, Mises Institute 2003 (https://bit.ly/3c5zQbb)
Lawrence White, The Clash of Economic Ideas, Cambridge UP 2012 (pp. 295-331)
Enrico Colombatto, The Economics You Need, Routledge 2016 (chapter 7).
Lawrence White, The Clash of Economic Ideas, Cambridge UP 2012 (chapter 15)
More readings (not required):
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Introduction”, in M. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty, NewYork Univ. Press 1998.
Hardy Bouillon, Gerechtes Glück, Buchausgabe.de 2020 (parts 1 and 2).
Anthony De Jasay, Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick, (ed. By H. Kliemt), Liberty Fund 2015, part I.
Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority, Palgrave MacMillan 2013
Enrico Colombatto, Liberisti o Socialisti? Tertium non Datur, Giappichelli 2021
Sven Larson, The Rise of Big Government, Routledge 2018
Pascal Salin, La Tyrannie Fiscale, Odile Jacob 2014
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