81857 - Seminar in Economic Ethics

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics, Markets and Institutions (cod. 8038)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and Economic Policy (cod. 8420)

Learning outcomes

Economics and its critics: methods, ideology, policy measures.

Course contents

Theories of justice

Social limits to growth

Efficiency and equity of market outcomes

Ideology and economic assumptions

Values and Policy implications

Readings/Bibliography

Readings will be selected in a participative manner in the first weeks of the seminar

Teaching methods

Lessons in italian

Discussions in italian

Presentations of selected readings by the students (in italian)

Assessment methods

Written exam, written essay, presentations.

Office hours

See the website of Raimondello Orsini