Economics

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures on the different contents of the course and tutorials based on solving problem sets made available to the students at the beginning of the academic year.

 

Evaluation: General regime (final exam – 100%) or continuous evaluation (intermediate tests – 100%)

Learning Outcomes

Objectives:

Provide students with a better understanding of economic problems to be able to understand from an economic point of view problems of individuals and societies, applying basic economic concepts and economic reasoning to the analysis of current events.

Understand how the economy operates, how some government policies affect its performance, and perceive that economic institutions are an important element of any social system, thus social changes are often influenced by economic forces, so economics is important for related social sciences.

 Competencies:

Capacity of analysis and synthesis

Oral and written communication

Problem solving

Ability to work autonomously

Interact with colleagues and teachers in the classroom

Analyze, synthetize and explain in writing and orally economic problems

Represent and explain graphically economic concepts

Identify and retrieve economic data

Analyze qualitatively and quantitatively economic data

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I – The scope and method of economics

I.1 – The economic problem: scarcity and choice

I.2 – Economic systems and the basic economic problems

I. 3 – Major economics schools of thought

II – The organization and functioning of markets

II.1 – Consumer choice theory

II.2 – Production theory

II.3 – Costs of production theory

II.4 – Demand and supply

II.5 – Market structures

III – Basic macroeconomic concepts.

Head Lecturer(s)

Lina Paula David Coelho

Assessment Methods

Continuous evaluation
intermediate tests : 100.0%

final exam
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

SAMUELSON, Paul A., William D. Nordhaus, Economia, 19ª ed., Lisboa, Editora McGraw-Hill de Portugal, 2011.

Mankiw, N. Gregory, Principles of Economics, International Edition, South-Western College, 2009.

DUARTE, Adelaide, Apontamentos sobre o circuito e contabilidade nacional, FEUC, Coimbra 2007.

DUARTE, Adelaide e Simões, Marta, Séries temporais – uma introdução, FEUC, Coimbra 2008.

RAMOS, Pedro Nogueira, CONTAS NACIONAIS: Um breve texto introdutório, FEUC, Coimbra.