30101 - Economics, Society and Institutions in the Modern Age (LM)

Learning outcomes

The student must know deeply  the economic social and institutional background of the historical context of the modern and contemporary age, achieving also methodological abilities.

Course contents

Consumers  in the age of the financial globalization

The course suggests  to examine and to discuss some historical and institutional problems of the modern commercial society of the West World

Readings/Bibliography

 Victoria de Grazia, L'impero irresistibile. La società dei consumi americana alla conquista del mondo, Ed.Einaudi, Torino 2015

Teaching methods

Class lesson and seminar

Assessment methods

The exam is an oral exam trough which the critical and methodological abilities acquired by the student durin the course will be evalueted; the student will be  invited to discuss the issues addressed during the course. The following abilities will be evalueted positively: a student's ability to familiarized him/herself with bibliographical material and sources with the aim of selecting information from the literature that can be used to illustrate aspects and areas of culture pertaining to the discipline.

Thee ability to reach a critical and systematic vision of the discipline and the  ability   to demonstrate the possession of a descriptive command of a appropriate field-specific Language will be rewarded with a mark of excellence.

A mechanical and /or superficial ability to synthesize and analyse  information, will lead to a moderate mark; knowledge gaps and/or inappropriate language will not lead  to a pass mark; knowledge gaps, inappropriate language, and a lack of familiarity with bibliographical material will not receive a pass mark.

Teaching tools

Reading texts

Office hours

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