| Dozent/in |
Dr. Thomas Moser; Dr. rer. pol. Marcel R. Savioz |
| Veranstaltungsart |
Vorlesung |
| Code |
HS251043 |
| Semester |
Herbstsemester 2025 |
| Durchführender Fachbereich |
Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Studienstufe |
Bachelor
Master |
| Termin/e |
Mo, 15.09.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Mo, 22.09.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Mo, 29.09.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Mo, 06.10.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Mo, 13.10.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Mo, 20.10.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Mo, 27.10.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Mo, 03.11.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Mo, 10.11.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Mo, 17.11.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Mo, 24.11.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Mo, 01.12.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Mo, 15.12.2025, 12:15 - 14:00 Uhr, HS 7
Di, 06.01.2026, 12:15 - 13:45 Uhr, HS 15 (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 1 – 26 September 2025. 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/17745707052 |
| Leistungsnachweis |
***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
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| 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.
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