CODE 106848 ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 2 ECONOMICS AND DATA SCIENCE 11267 (LM-56) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SECS-P/12 LANGUAGE English TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 2° Semester TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW The course will focus on some of the biggest global geopolitical issues, crises and macroeconomic imbalancements trying to analyze them in the light of some of the most important economic theories and considering some specifics case studies AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES This course aims at defining the main steps through which finance has become independent from the real economy. The financial dynamics complexities and their geopolitical consequences will be rebuilt in a global scale, and in a synthetic way. The course will also analyze the metamorphoses of economic theory facing the transformation of the social, economic and demographic conditions of some of the most important Countries in the world. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES The objective of the course is to give the students some tools in order to grasp many contemporary phenomena as globalization, the critical issues of financial capitalism, the new shapes of mercantilism and the protagonists of these new global challenges, the causes of the main global financial crises and their main characteristics. PREREQUISITES Nothing TEACHING METHODS Face to face lectures. Team working activities The lecturer will stimulate the discussion about some of the most important topics taught Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the instructor and with Professor Serena Scotto (scotto@economia.unige.it), the Department's disability liaison SYLLABUS/CONTENT -Monetary systems and main optimum currency area theories and case studies -Mercantilism in the Twenty-first century. -Neoliberal policies between ideology and reality -Capitalism: main theories -The most important crises: an analysis -Money: whence it came, where it went. Endogenous and exogenous money -The public debt issue -The financial markets -Globalization and de-globalization in the multi-polar world RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY J. Ingham, Capitalism, part.1 - Classical theories of capitalism 1)Smith: p. 7-14 2) Schumpeter and Keynes: p. 36-51 Ingham, part. 2 - The instititutions 1) Money: p. 65-91 2) Capital and financial markets: p. 147-174 3) Conclusions: p. 204-226 Fu-Lai Tony Yu, NeoMercantilist Policy andChina’s Rise as a Global Power, in Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: International Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, Dec. 201 7, pp. 1 043-1 073 Other materials will be uploaded to Aulaweb page TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD MARINA ROMANI Ricevimento: The office-hour will take place remotely. Students must make their appointment by e-mail (romani@economia.unige.it). Exam Board MARINA ROMANI (President) MARCO DORIA LUISA PICCINNO ANDREA ZANINI LESSONS LESSONS START February, 2025 Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION Attending students can get an intermediate test. Students will do team working activities. Non-attending students will take a written test with multiple choices and two open-ended questions ASSESSMENT METHODS The intermediate test will check and assess students' knowledge of the main topics and technicalities. Multiple-choice questions will check technicalities and specific contents Open questions will check students' critical skills and their ability to elaborate logically the topics taught in the course Team working will check student's critical and dialectical skills Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 19/12/2024 12:00 GENOVA Scritto 16/01/2025 12:00 GENOVA Scritto 30/01/2025 12:00 GENOVA Scritto 26/05/2025 10:00 GENOVA Scritto 16/06/2025 10:00 GENOVA Scritto 30/06/2025 10:00 GENOVA Scritto 11/09/2025 12:00 GENOVA Scritto Agenda 2030 - Sustainable Development Goals Quality education Reduce inequality Peace, justice and strong institutions