19512 - Economic and Development Policy

Learning outcomes

The course will focus on the instruments to know the characteristics and the changes of the Italian and European economic policy though a particular attention to development problems.

Course contents

The course is subdivide into two sections.

 

Italian political economy (Prof.ssa Brasili Cristina)

 

- Introduction to political economy;

- The development and the Italian economic trends in the latter postwar;

- The Italian endogenous models and local systems;

- Some Italian structural problems: the national debt, the South of Italy, the employment, the unemployment, the changes of energetic problems;

- Analysis of the main documents of political economy (DPEF, Financial Act, etc.).

 

World development and EU policy (Prof. Fanfani Roberto)

 

- The born and the working of the European institutions;

- The European budget;

- The single market;

- The main European union policies: structural, regional and cohesion policies, agricultural policy, industrial policy;

- The economic and monetary union;

- Agenda 2000’s paper and the enlargement of the European union;

- The role of the UE in the world;

- The economic development of the main world areas: Europe, America, Asia, Africa;

- Food security and the world famine;

- The problems of the sustainable development.

Readings/Bibliography

Valli V. (1993), "Politica economica: teoria e politica dello sviluppo. Il caso italiano", La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma, vol. 1.
Valli V. (1999), "Politica economica europea", La Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma.

Tsoukalis L. (1997), "The New European Economy Revisited", Oxford University Press, Oxford;

Dasgupta P. (1995), "The population problem: theory and evidence", Journal of Economic Literature, vol. XXXIII, December;

Crouch C. et al (2004), "Changing Governance of Local Economies", Oxford University Press;

Solanes J, Ramon M. (2002), "The impact of European Structural Funds on Economic Convergence in EU Countries and Regions", Convergence Issus in the European Union, Edward Elgar ed.;

Guerrieri P., Iammarino S. (2001), "The dynamics of Italian Industrial Districts; Toward a Renewal of Competitiveness?", in The Global Challenge to Industrial Districts, Guerrieri P., Iammarino S., Pietrobelli eds., pp.35-61.

Teaching methods

In the course will be done some seminars concerning the principal themes of the course. The material about the last seminars is in the web site: www2.stat.unibo.it/fanfani

Assessment methods

To go on the exam you have to do a text or a paper concerning a theme discuss at the lesson.

Teaching tools

Pc, tv projector.

Links to further information

http://www2.stat.unibo.it/fanfani

Office hours

See the website of Roberto Fanfani

See the website of Cristina Brasili