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Teaching is concentrated in the faculties and schools, and the departments deal with research, which is also conducted by institutes and chairs, at the same time responsible for knowledge promotion.
Instruments of Applied Economics aims to introduce students to some of the techniques most commonly used in calculating the main economic indicators, such as those related to the labour market, economic activity as a whole and prices.
Economia y anàlisi econòmica: escassetat i elecció.Specialisation, exchange and money.Resource-allocation mechanisms (supply and demand).Micro-economic foundations of offer and demand: consumers and enterprises.Partial and general equilibrium.Market and welfare mistakes.Macro-economic foundations: circular flow of income and macro-economic aggregates.Cycles and growth.Real economy and monetary economy.macro-economic problems.
Practical acquisition of the skills needed to comprehensively manage information on most of the companies' computerised environments, from maintaining the IT system to extracting relevant information for decision-making.
This module aims to act as a systematic introduction to the history of the present-day world by analysing the large political, economic and social processes which, starting in 1945, occurred during the second half of the last century and first decade of the 21st.
Introduction to the construction of identities, memory, and cultural heritage in the present and changing world.
Science and sociology.The sociological analysis perspective of social reality.The methods and techniques of analysis used.Main theories.Social interaction: social institutions, socialising players, social rules.The company as a social institution.Social context.Social structure, change and evolution.
Imperfect competition: oligopoly and monopolistic competition. Game theory, monopoly and cartels, strategic interaction (Cournot, Bertrand, Stackelberg), differentiation, integration and concentration.
The aim of this subject is to answer some key questions: Why do countries trade with each other? How does international trade affect individual players? What is the impact of government policies on trade and well-being? Why do some companies invest abroad? What determines the exchange rates of foreign currencies? What are the main differences between a fixed and flexible exchange rate system? How can a country increase its competitiveness by manipulating its exchange rate?
1.Basic notions of the theory of sets: pertinence, inclusion, basic operations with sets, properties of relations, relations of order and relations of equivalence.2.Syntax and semantics of the propositional logic.3.Syntax and semantics of the logic of first order.4.Inferential calculation in first order.5.Metalogical concepts: logical consequence, logical equivalence, correction and completeness of an inferential calculation.
Functions of multiple variables. Partial derivatives, directional and differential derivatives. Composite derivatives and implicit derivatives. Marginal analysis in partial derivatives. Partial elements.
Consumer and demand theory. Company and supply theory.Analysis of markets with perfect competition in partial equilibrium. Market errors and well-being analysis.
Static macroeconomics and dynamic macroeconomics. Economic cycle models: Keynesian models and real-cycle models. Theories of economic growth: Solow models and endogenous growth models.
Advanced use of the linear regression model. Time series models. Stochastic regulators and dynamic models. Micro-econometrics: discrete choice models, models with the limited dependant variable and models for panel data.
Welfare economic theory. Market errors and the role of the public sector. Effects of public spending and taxation on economic efficiency and wealth distribution.
Instruments for analysing trends and cycles in economic variables, instruments for analysing the economic situation, introduction to computable general balance models, instruments for the study of the long-term economy
Systematic analysis of the conceptualisations of the real in its transcendental and categorical structure, as well as the problem of the sense and its various ways of realisation.1.About what there is.Universals, properties and individuals.The problem of the intensional realities.2.Cause and effect.The problem of the freedom of the will.3.The nature of the time and of the space.4.The mental one and the physicist.The problem of its nature and interrelation.5.Identity and personal identity.6.The metaphysical realism: essentialist realism and scientific realism.7.Anti-realism, irrealism and idealism.8.Reality and appearance.9.Reality, Need, Possibility.10.The problem of the sense of reality.Is nothing possible?
Analysis of some of the selected topics of contemporary economic history with special emphasis on international economic relations, economic growth and regulatory policies.
1.General historical study of the main authors and doctrines of aesthetic thought.2.Study of the main authors and classic doctrines of the philosophy of art and the theory of beauty.3.Systematic approach to the main problems of aesthetics.4.Introduction to the work of the main authors of contemporary aesthetics.
1.Basic notions of the philosophy of language: distinction type / copy; distinction use / mention of signs; sentence, terms, utterance, suggestion, value of the truth, conditions of truth; syntax, semantics and pragmatics.2.Frege’s philosophy of language.3.Russell’s theory of descriptions.3.The theory of direct reference: Kripke.4.The philosophy of language according to Wittgenstein.5.Quine’s philosophy of language.6.Austin’s theory of speech acts.7.Grice’s semantics.
Study of the work of the main classical authors of ethics and introduction to the main current debates.1.Introduction to the main contemporary ethical and meta-ethical problems: relativism, naturalism, determinism, scepticism.2.Approach to problems of forming morality.3.Approach to the question and uses of moral language.4.The limits of ethics: from the philosophy of suspicion and to scientism.
Study of the work of the main classic authors of political philosophy and introduction to the main current debates.1.Introduction to political philosophy2.Political duty and democratic legitimacy.3.Introduction to the concepts of freedom, equality, tolerance and to the main recent debates about such concepts.4 Introduction to the concept of distributive justice and to the main contemporary theories of justice.
1.Introduction to modern and contemporary ideologies.2.Introduction to liberalism (or liberalisms) and its critics (conservatism, communitarianism, republicanism, totalitarianism).3.Introduction to the problems of nationalism.4.The process of globalization and international justice and cosmopolitanism.5.Other contemporary subjects of political philosophy.
Historical introduction to the principal currents of contemporary philosophy and the main contemporary debates related to them.1.Historical study of the main authors and doctrines of contemporary philosophy.2.Systematic approach to the main problems addressed in the various currents of the philosophy of the period.3.Introduction to the work of the main authors.
Study of the work of the main philosophers of the mediaeval period: 1.Problemes specific to the study of the History of the mediaeval Philosophy.2.Diachronic approach to the thought of the Age Half.3.Introduction to the work of the main authors.4.Reading and comment of works of some mediaeval thinkers.
Study of the work of the main philosophers of the modern period.1.General methodological considerations about the history of the philosophy and specific about the history of the modern philosophy.2.Diachronic approach to the thought of the modern age.3.Introduction to the work of the main authors.4.Reading and comment of works of some thinkers of the period.
1.The classical causal conception of the knowledge.The doctrine of the eaistèmics mediators.2.The problem of the scepticism: local and general scepticism; the general scepticism about the perceptive beliefs; the suppositions of the skeptical argument.3.The tripartite analysis: the challenge of Gettier; counterfactic theories and scepticism; externisme of the justification and externisme of the contents.4.Theories about the perception: indirect realism; the distinction among primary and secondary properties; direct realism; the externisme about the perceptive contents.5.Self-knowledge: the classical doctrine of the introspection and the problem of the subject; introspection and intentionality: the asymmetry between the first and the third person; the criticism of Wittgenstein to the private language
Cycles in capitalist economies. Macro-economic models on cyclical fluctuations. Concepts and techniques in the study of cycles. Economic indicators. Forecasts and analysis of the situation.
Analysis of some of the main trends in philosophy today.1.Current controversies of the philosophy of the 20th century.2.Trends of the philosophy of the 21st century.
1.Analysis of the scientific method of comparing and contrasting hypotheses.2.The problem of induction.3.The major scientific concepts: inherited concepts, historic concepts, semantic concepts.4.Causality and scientific laws.5.Main theories of scientific explanation.6.Brief discussion of the ethical implications of scientific and technological activity.
Economic analysis of the political and institutional environment and its impact on economic activity: drafting economic policy, collective decision making rules, stakeholders, institutions and economic development.
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