Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 1 2024-25 |
This module aims to enable students to develop their perspective on the role of economics and management in human and social relations. It introduces the philosophical study of the relation between humanity and economic models and practices, with a specific consideration of the risks and challenges presented to the future of human society by global and environmental threats. It aims to develop sensitivity to the foundational considerations that inform management practice.
1. Recognise a relationship between economics and the human condition.
2. Articulate a range of economic approaches to social arrangements, wealth creation and distribution
3. Assess the contribution of economics to the public good
4. Develop independent, investigative and informed engagement with academic sources
A rigorous treatment of dominant economics - origins, history, limitations and potentials
A rigorous treatment of new and emerging economic approaches - limitations and potentials
The human consequences and origins of economic approaches to management
Perspectives on the human condition in relation to management, economics and the future
Major issues of management in relation to economics - transaction costs, game theory, principal agent problem
Behavioural approaches to economics
Global, national and local perspectives on economics
Consideration of economic approaches in relation to other approaches - political, social and educational
Developing research skills
Integrate research and business experience into learning
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
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Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
Feedback will be given in accordance with the University Policy on feedback in the Guide to Assessment as well as in line with the School policy.
Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science May-2021
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent, April-2019
Economics for Humans, Second Edition Dec-2018