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A History of Modern Macroeconomics: From Keynes to Piketty


Dozent/in Dr. Thomas Moser; Dr. rer. pol. Marcel R. Savioz
Veranstaltungsart Vorlesung
Code HS221238
Semester Herbstsemester 2022
Durchführender Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Studienstufe Bachelor Master
Termin/e Mo, 19.09.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 26.09.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 03.10.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 10.10.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 17.10.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 24.10.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 31.10.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 07.11.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 14.11.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 21.11.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 28.11.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 05.12.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 12.12.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Mo, 19.12.2022, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.A05
Di, 03.01.2023, 12:15 - 13:45 Uhr, HS 5 (Prüfung)
Umfang 2 Semesterwochenstunden
Turnus weekly
Inhalt

1.      1. Is History of Economic Thought a Waste of Time?

2.      2. Keynes and the Keynesian Revolution

3.      3. The Neoclassical Synthesis and the Keynesians

4.      4. The Monetarist Counterrevolution

5.      5. Non-Mainstream Macroeconomics: Post-Keynesians, Minsky and Neo-Keynesians

6.      6. Non-Mainstream Macroeconomics: Austrians

7.      7. The Rational Expectations Revolution and New Classical Macroeconomics

8.      8. Real Business Cycle Macroeconomics

9.      9. New Keynesian Macroeconomics 

10 10. The Financial Crisis 2008/09 and the Crisis in Macroeconomics

11 11. Public Choice and New Political Economics

12 12. Putting Distribution Back at the Center of Economics: Piketty

Lernziele The student of economics will not only gain a deeper understanding of macroeconomics and its limits, the course will also provide the student with a toolbox of historical and modern macroeconomic models so that the student gains the ability to select the most appropriate model to address a given economic problem.
The student of philosophy will be provided with a case study in the philosophy of science and may gain a better understanding of the particular issues that Macroeconomics as a science faces.
The student of politics will gain a better understanding of the links between macroeconomic theory and specific policy recommendations, particularly with regard to stabilization policy.
Voraussetzungen Bachelor Students 5th Semester. Willingness to consider different points of view.
Sprache Englisch
Anmeldung

To attend the course / exercise, registration via e-learning platform OLAT is required. Registration is possible from September 5 - 30 September 2022. The students themselves are responsible for checking the creditability of the course to their course of study.

Direct link to OLAT course:

https://lms.uzh.ch/url/RepositoryEntry/17250386156

Prüfung ***IMPORTANT*** In order to acquire credits, resp. to take the examination, registration via the Uni Portal within the examination registration period is ESSENTIALLY REQUIRED. Further information on registration: www.unilu.ch/wf/pruefungen
Abschlussform / Credits Written exmination / 3 Credits
Hinweise Warning: This course could make students question their acquired knowledge in economics and look at macroeconomics from a much broader perspective.
Hörer-/innen Nach Vereinbarung
Kontakt thomas.moser@snb.ch / marcel.savioz@bluewin.ch
Literatur Snowdown, B. and Vane, H.R. (2005), Modern Macroeconomics, Its Origins, Development and Current State, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. Available at Studiladen.