42601 - Economics of Mutuality and Welfare Systems

Course contents

1. The perspective of study of the civil economy. • The birth of the market economy. • The constituent principles of the market economy. • The evolution of the market economy and its constitution in capitalistica market economy. • The reasons of the return, in age put into effect them, of the propsepttiva of economic-civil speech.
2. The philosophy of the individualismo and the behavior of the homo oeconomicus. • The line of Hobbes-Mandeville-Bentham thought. • Sorgivi elements of the assiologico individualismo. • Instrumental rationality and Paretiano criterion. • Paradoxes and dilemmas of the homo oeconomicus. 3. The paradigm of the homo reciprocans. • The evolutionary game theory. • Psychological games and identity. • The emergency of the social norms of behavior. • The relational principle of reciprocity and assets.
4. Applications of the relational paradigm: a) The paradoxes of the happiness in the advance economies; b) The social responsibility of the enterprise; c) The fair trade and loyal and the critical consumption; d) Microfinanza and policies of spillage from the poverty.

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