Base Knowledge
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Teaching Methodologies
The following teaching methodologies are used in this curricular unit: 1) Verbal methods (say), making use of the following educational resources: Exposition, Explanation and Dialogue;2) Intuitive Methodologies (show), making use of the following educational resources: Demo, Audiovisual Texts and Writings;3) Active methodologies (do), making use of the following educational resources: Exercises, debates about economic reality.
Learning Results
The discipline of economy aims to provide students with basic skills to understand the aggregated movements of contemporary market economies. The subject focuses on learning following results: a) Describe the macroeconomy as a science and to analyze the subject of macroeconomics. b) Identify the key macroeconomic variables and the main problems and macroeconomic issues, including unemployment, the business cycle, inflation. c) Measure and describe the overall functionning. Calculate the main macroeconomic aggregates. d) Understand and apply the concepts of microeconomics. e) To understand the methodology of logic economic of market . f) Solve simple problems using the methodology of economic logic and learned concepts.
Program
1. Introduction and Concepts.
2. History of Economic Thought.
3. The economic problem.
4. Quantitative Methods in Economic Analysis
4.1 Inflation. Actual values and nominal values.
5. Product, income and expense.
6. Economic Characterization of Families.
7. Simple Supply and Demand Model
7.1 Forms of state intervention in the model.
8. Market structures.
Grading Methods
- - Written test - 100.0%
- - 1 written test - 35.0%
- - 1 written test - 30.0%
- - 1 written test - 35.0%
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
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Branson, W. H. (2001); Macroeconomia: teoria e prática; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2ª edição.
Santos, José et al. (2001), Macroeconomia: Exercícios, Lisboa, McGraw-Hill
Mateus, Abel e Mateus, Margarida (2001), Microeconomia – Teoria e Aplicações (Volumes I e II), Lisboa, Verbo
Samuelson, Paul. e Nordhaus, William (1999), Microeconomia, Lisboa, McGraw-Hil
Dornbusch, R. e Fischer, S. (1998), Macroeconomia, Lisboa, McGraw-Hill
Ferreira, Ricardo e Nabais, Carlos (2010), Microeconomia Lições e Exercícios, Lidel
Amaral, João F. et al. (2002), Introdução à Macroeconomia, Lisboa, Escolar Editora
Varian, H. R. (2000); Microeconomia, princípios básicos; Campus
Samuelson, Paul. e Nordhaus, W. (2005), Macroeconomia, Lisboa, McGraw-Hill
Mata, J. (2000), Economia da Empresa, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian