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[ 572GVWLGODK20 ] KS History of Economic Thought

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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
3 ECTS B2 - Bachelor's programme 2. year Economics Rudolf Winter-Ebmer 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Pre-requisites (*)KS Einführung in die Volkswirtschaftslehre
Original study plan Bachelor's programme Economics and Business 2024W
Objectives The aim of the course is to provide students with an insight into the doctrinal-historical development of economics as a scientific discipline (classical economics, neoclassicism, Keynesianism, and post-Keynesianism). Additionally, issues of ethics and interdisciplinary topics overlapping with political science, psychology, and gender studies will be discussed.
Subject - Classical Economics (Smith, Ricardo, Marx)

- Neoclassical Economics

- Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Neoclassical Economics

- Keynesianism, Post-Keynesianism

- The displacement of Keynesian positions

- Renaissance of Keynesianism in the economic crisis?

- Economics and Ethics: Positivist economic concepts vs. Adam Smith

- Ethical perspectives of economic action and socio-political context of market economy and economics

- Economic Theory of Politics

- Feminist Theory and Economics

- Economic Psychology: Experimental verification of economic assumptions

Criteria for evaluation Exam
Methods Lecture
Language German
Study material Will be announced in the course.
Changing subject? No
Corresponding lecture (*)572AECOPOLK15: KS Politische Ökonomie (3 ECTS)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 200
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority