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13161
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| Year |
3
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| Semester |
S1
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
TP(60H)
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| Scientific area |
Economics
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Entry requirements |
NA
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Mode of delivery |
The learning process combines classroom learning, lectures and debate-based sessions, with independent study, individually or in group. These activities are supported by e-learning activities and online resources, as well as a close contact with instructor. All lectures will be based on interactive teaching and learning dynamics. Students are strongly advised to attend and take active part in the lessons.
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Learning outcomes |
Aims:
1. Understand interactions between Politics and Economics, analysing why different individuals and groups support or oppose public policies;
2. Examine economic fluctuations and related price and employment movements;
3. Debate the role of markets and the size and the government intervention
4. Understand the links between deficits, debt and crisis, advancing well-informed arguments;
5. Understand structural imbalances and discuss the economic, social and political implications of fiscal austerity policies;
6. Examine market labor performance, their income distributional effects and the dynamics of social pacts;
7. Discuss the effects of economic crisis on political polarisation dynamics;
8. Develop intellectual and personal transferable skills.
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Syllabus |
I - What is Political Economy?
II - Economic Fluctuations, Prices and Employment
III - Markets and Size and Government Intervention
IV. Deficit and Public Debt: From Concepts to History and Policies
V – Debating Austerity: Recession e Recovery
VI - Labour Markets, Inequality and Social Pact
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Main Bibliography |
Compulsory Readings
Texts announced in the course scheduling and description, available on the Moodle platform.
Additional Readings
OATLEY, Thomas, 2019. International Political Economy. 6rd Edition. New York: Routledge.
CORE PROJECT (2022, September 17). Economy, Society, and Public Policy: Retrieved from https://www.core-econ.org/espp/book/text/0-3-contents.html
HA-JOON CHANG (2014). “Leviathan or the Philosopher of the King? The Role of the State”, Economics: The User’s Guide, Pelican Books, Chapter 11: 170-182.
MAZZUCATO, M (2013). The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, London: Anthem Press.
LINDERT, P. (2004). Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Vols 1 & 2.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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