Economic Policy

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Department of Social Sciences

Synopsis:

Optional subject Economic policy is planned for all students of the bachelor or master?s studies who went through the basic course of the economic theory. Nevertheless it is as well opened to students who haven?t yet met with the economic theory in their studies, e.g. to students of G and A fields of studies.

The structure of this subject is adopted to this. We start our eplanations with basic economic terms in microeconomy and macroeconomy without which students cannot study the economic policy. We explain terms such as the scarcity - choice, factors of production, economic subjects, market equilibrium, money, the inflation, unemployment, aggregate demand and supply, business cycle. Only after that we explain the term of the economic policy, its tasks, subjects and tools. We go in more detail through the macroeconomic economic policy - fiscal, monetary, external and income policy. Within the microeconomic economic policy we concentrate our lectures on explanation of main tasks and tools of the structural and social economic policy and policy of the economic competition. The course is completed with a short summary of practical economic policy development in some states - particularly in the UK, the USA, France, Germany, Japan, the Czech Republic(Czechoslovakia) and in the Europen Union.

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No prerequisites

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Study Objective:

This is an optional subject which task is to explain to the students problems of economic policy, to develop their knowledge about economic connections and to explain actual problems of the Czech and world economy and to lead students to understand possible impacts of economic policy measures on the development of economy.

Study materials:

Slaný, A. - Žák, M.: Hospodářská politika. Praha, C.H. Beck 1999.

Kliková, Ch. - Kotlán, I.: Hospodářská politika. Ostrava, SOKRATES 2003.

Slaný, A. a kol.: Makroekonomická analýza a hospodářská politika. Praha, C.H. Beck 2003.

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: