Basics of economics WS-SO-PS-1-PE
Course contents:
1. Introduction
2. Microeconomics
a. Types of economical environment
b. Market and its mechanisms. Supply and demand
c. Market forms
d. Producer and consumer
e. Markets of production factors
f. State and its role
3. Macroeconomics
a. National income and its measurement
b. State spending. Budget
c. Market of money. Banking
d. Business cycle and economic growth
e. Inflation and unemployment
f. Open economy–international economics
4. Economic transformation in Poland after 1989.
5. Economic processes of globalisation
(in Polish) E-Learning
(in Polish) Grupa przedmiotów ogólnouczenianych
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Learning outcomes
Acquiring by students economic basic concepts and understanding main economic processes occurring on the level micro-, of macroeconomics and global economics.
Capability of enumeration of the most important economic institutions in Poland and in the world.
Ability of using these notions and economic reasoning.
ECTS POINTS: 2
Student activities: Student work in hours:
Lecture - 30
Consultations - 5
Preparation for exam - 25
TOTAL - 60
Bibliography
Bibliography:
1. BEGG D., FISHER S., DORNBUSH R., Mikroekonomia i Makroekonomia, PWE, Warszawa 2007.
2. CZARNY B., Wstęp do ekonomii, PWE, Warszawa 2006.
3. DUDA S., KUŚPIT J., MAMCARZ H., PAKUŁA A., ŻUKOWSKA H., ŻUKOWSKI M., Zarys ekonomii, UMCS, Lublin 2003.
4. MILEWSKI R., Kwiatkowski E. (red.), Podstawy ekonomii, PWN, Warszawa 2005.
5. NASIŁOWSKI M., System rynkowy. Podstawy mikro- i makroekonomii, Wydawnictwo Key Tex, Warszawa 2006.
6. SLOMAN J., Podstawy ekonomii, PWE, Warszawa 2001.
7. ŻUKOWSKI M. (red.), Ekonomia. Zarys wykładu, UMCS, Lublin 2009.
Supplementary readings:
1. BUDNIKOWSKI A. Międzynarodowe stosunki gospodarcze, PWE, Warszawa 2006.
2. CZARNY B., RAPACKI R. (red.), Podstawy ekonomii, PWE, Warszawa 2002.
3. KALIŃSKI J., Historia gospodarcza XIX i XXw., PWE, Warszawa 2008.
4. MILEWSKI R. (red.), Elementarne zagadnienia ekonomii, PWN, Warszawa 1999.
5. STANKIEWICZ W., Historia myśli ekonomicznej, PWE, Warszawa 2007.
6. WINIARSKI B. (red.), Polityka gospodarcza, PWN, Warszawa 2006.
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