Unit Economy for growth and sustainability
- Course
- Business economics and management
- Study-unit Code
- A003027
- Location
- TERNI
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Silvia Micheli
- Teachers
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- Silvia Micheli
- Hours
- 42 ore - Silvia Micheli
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SECS-P/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course aims to provide students with the tools necessary to analyze the behavior of economic systems in the short and long term. The analysis provides both a theoretical framework and the results of the most recent studies on economic growth, presenting the main facts and problems related to growth. After presenting the main models for the analysis of economic growth, the characteristics of the sustainable economy are examined, based on models of economic theory, and on the lessons of history.
- Reference texts
- Weil D.N., 2007. “Crescita Economica”, ed. Hoepli.
Missaglia, M., Vaggi G., "Introduzione all’economia dello sviluppo. Crescita, sostenibilità e cooperazione nel XXI secolo", ed. Carocci editore. - Educational objectives
- The course aims to provide students with economic tools, mainly through models, which allow them to understand the economic growth of countries, their development, and the ways in which this development should take place in order to be sustainable.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons.
- Learning verification modality
- Written exam
- Extended program
- Physical capital; population and economic growth; human capital; the role of technology in economic growth; economic growth in the open economy, resources and environment globally; people, human beings in space and time; towards a broader definition of sustainable development; the growth theory of Solow and Swan: an already mature economy; macroeconomics and structure. The teaching of Micka-el Kalecki and the GAP models; towards human and sustainable development.
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- As part of the Agenda 2030 objectives for sustainable development, the course is placed in Goal 8 "Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all" and in particular in Target 8.1 "Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries".