Course description

Title of the Teaching Unit

Economics and methodology of research

Code of the Teaching Unit

21PEC10

Academic year

2024 - 2025

Cycle

Number of credits

Number of hours

Quarter

Weighting

Site

Anjou

Teaching language

French

Teacher in charge

DUTERME Tom

Objectives and contribution to the program

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” 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.

Prerequisites and corequisites

No prerequisite is required since it is an introductory course.

Content

I. "L'économie", between economics and economy

II. At the origins of capitalisms

III. The economic functioning through a neoclassical prism

IV. The economic globalization

V. Finance and money

VI. Environmental and ecological economics

VII. The social embeddedness of the economy

Teaching methods

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.

Assessment method

The evaluation consists of a written exam, including theoretical questions and exercises similar to those discussed during the year.

References

Teaching supports

Course website on Moodle (https://moodle.ichec.be) with :
o Course slides
o Text portfolio

Bibliographic references

Several passages in the course refer to two economics textbooks:

1) The free online textbook "The Economy", produced and developed in the framework of 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=fr. This manual is accompanied by various teaching resources (documents, databases, etc.). To access these resources, you are asked to register here as a student: https://www.core-econ.org/about/?lang=fr

2) The "Grand manuel d'économie politique", published by the Association française d'économie politique (AFEP).
The passages from this manual referred to in the course slides will be posted on Moodle.