Corso di laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione

The course focuses on the basic principles of macroeconomics, stressing the main theoretical approaches and fundamental problems of contemporary economies.

 Knowledge and understanding abilty.
The course seeks to provide students the knowledge of basic tools of macroeconomic analysis, by focusing on the working of the economy as a whole, the definition of key macroeconomic variables, such as national income, employment, inflation both at the conceptual and quantitative level. It ultimately aims at making student understand the role and impact of macroeconomic policies.

The course seeks to overcome the barrier between abstract theory and the real-world economy by applying theoretical knowledge to most relevant current macroeconomic facts.
This is pursued by comparing alternative theoretical approaches and reading key articles from recent newspapers.
These are stimulated by organizing the exam text in such a way a to require students to express in simple ways complex notions and comment short sentences drawn from the relevant articles.

This is stimulated by asking questions and commenting articles during the lectures.

National accounting
-The principle of effective demand
-The income expenditure model
-The state and fiscal policy
-Investment and the rate of interest
-The money market
-The IS-LM model
-The IS-LM-BP model
-The labour market

R. Dornbusch, S. Fisher, R. Startz "Macroeconomics", McGrawHill ed.