| Dozent/in |
Dr. Thomas Moser; Dr. rer. pol. Marcel R. Savioz |
| Veranstaltungsart |
Vorlesung |
| Code |
HS241119 |
| Semester |
Herbstsemester 2024 |
| Durchführender Fachbereich |
Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Studienstufe |
Bachelor
Master |
| Termin/e |
Mo, 16.09.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mo, 23.09.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mo, 30.09.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mo, 07.10.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mo, 14.10.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mo, 21.10.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mo, 28.10.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 3
Mo, 04.11.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mo, 11.11.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mo, 18.11.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mo, 25.11.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mo, 02.12.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mo, 09.12.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mo, 16.12.2024, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, 3.B48
Mi, 18.12.2024, 12:15 - 13:45 Uhr, HS 5 (Prüfung) |
| Umfang |
2 Semesterwochenstunden |
| Turnus |
weekly |
| Inhalt |
1.
Is
History of Economic Thought a Waste of Time?
2. Keynes
and the Keynesian Revolution
3. The Neoclassical Synthesis and the
Keynesians
4.
The Monetarist Counterrevolution
5. Non-Mainstream Macroeconomics:
Post-Keynesians, Minsky and Neo-Keynesians
6.
Non-Mainstream Macroeconomics: Austrians
7. The Rational Expectations Revolution
and New Classical Macroeconomics
8.
Real Business Cycle Macroeconomics
9.
New Keynesian Macroeconomics
10. The Financial Crisis 2008/09 and the
Crisis in Macroeconomics
11. Public Choice and New Political
Economics
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 2 – 27 September 2024. The students themselves are responsible for checking the creditability of the course to their course of study. |
| 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 exam / 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. |