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

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

-students should grasp the theoretical knowledge that allows them to interpret and understand  main financial or geopolitics topics or issues addressed in this course

-students should learn and  understand both the financial and economic terminology and the technicalities to properly communicate with people,  field experts, and scholars

TEACHING METHODS

Face to face lessons and team working

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

MAIN TOPICS:

-Optimum currency areas

-Capitalism: main theories

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

-Monetary systems

-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

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

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARINA ROMANI (President)

MARCO DORIA

LUISA PICCINNO

ANDREA ZANINI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

First term

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Attending students:

- written test which consists in two open questions

(If the safety emergences persists students  will take a remote oral interview)

-team working and discussion in class of the topics developed by the students

Non attending students

- two open  questions

(If the safety emergences persists students  will take a remote oral interview)

In the summer and winter exam set students who will have  failed their exam won't be allowed to take the following exam  in the same term

Students can withdraw from the exam within 30 minutes from the beginning of the test

Any changes will be communicate by AW

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The written test assesses students' knowledge  of topics developed in class and  evaluate studens' vocabulary ad their ability to use technical language

The target of team workin is to evaluate students' autonomy  and their critical skills and team-working competences

At the beginning of the group work the professor will present  a short tutorial whic explains the assesment criteria

Exam schedule