75915 - Seminar in Economic Policy

Learning outcomes

See the Italian version

Course contents

The seminars of the a.y. 2023/24 is monographic. The investigated theme is that of economic alternatives in the post-globalization era.


Premise: The thirty years of neo-liberal globalization (1980-2008) produced wealth, economic growth and social development in important areas of the world. At the same time, its contradictions drove the world economy to the greatest crisis in modern history (the financial crisis of 2008), a surge in global inequalities, the unsustainability in the exploitation of natural resources, the environmental and political crisis that has has been bringing populist and sovereignist movements to power in many countries.


At the same time and under the track, the last few decades have also seen the growth of experiences and networks of social and communitarian economy, in which an attempt is made to build a bottom-up alternative that might be able to hold together the market, economic initiative, development, the environment and social inclusion. Some of these experiences have gained the attention of economic research and, in some cases, of institutions.


These seminars have the objective of understanding some of these experiences on a theoretical and practical level. During the first lesson, the topics to be explored in subsequent seminars will be chosen.

Readings/Bibliography

Scientific and popular articles will be uploaded on virtuale.unibo.it before each seminar, to incentivate discussion and participation

Teaching methods

lectures, discussion, critique, participation

Assessment methods

The evaluation can be carried out in two alternative ways:

- group presentation, for those students who signed in virtuale.unibo.it and chose to prepare an investigation into one of the topics selected in the first seminar

- final test (to be defined) on the topics covered in class.

 

There is no mark, but only a Pass/Fail evaluation.

Teaching tools

Curiosity, brain plugged-in, critical attitude

Office hours

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