Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module students should be able to:
1. Have an understanding of the basic tools of economic analysis.
2. To be able to apply those tools to practical situations.
3. Understand the contribution economics can make to the discussion on a wide range of social and global and societal issues.
Indicative Module Content:
1. Supply and Demand
2. Measuring economic welfare
3. Economic growth
4. Inequality and poverty
5. Role of the government
6. Trade
7. Economic integration
8. The EU and Euro
9. Sovereign debt crisis
10. Covid crisis
11. Brexit
12. Behavioral economics (maybe)