OVERVIEW

This course will deal with the stages through which global finance becomes independent from the real economy. The complexity of the financial dynamics worldwide and their geopolitical implications will also be synthetically reconstructed. 

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

This course will deal with the stages through which global finance becomes independent from real economy. The complexity of the financial dynamics worldwide and their geopolitical implications will also be synthetically reconstructed. The aim is to provide students with some tools to understand some contemporary phenomena such as globalization, the critical issues of financial capitalism, the new protagonists and the new forms of mercantilism, the reasons of the increase of crisis and their features

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

MAIN TOPICS:

-Capitalism: main theories

-Money: whence it came, where it went. From currency objects to bit-coin

-Monetary systems

-The banking system

-The most important crises: an analysis

-Big players: Sovereign Wealth Funds and multinational firms

-Commodities, utilities, futures

-Mercantilism in the Twenty-first  century. Germany and China

-Neoliberal policies between ideology and reality

-The dust of Empire: the offshore finance

-The public debt issue

- Islamic finance

-Globalization and de-globalization in the multi-polar world

-Capital in the Twenty-first century

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARINA ROMANI (President)

MARCO DORIA

LUISA PICCINNO

ANDREA ZANINI

EXAMS

Exam schedule