
Economic World View - ZBUS8148
Faculty: UNSW Canberra at ADFA
School: School of Business @ UNSW Canberra at ADFA
Course Outline: ZBUS8148 Course Outline
Campus: UNSW Canberra at ADFA
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Learning Outcomes
1. Understand the fundamentals of how economists see and seek to interpret the world;
2. Use economic thinking to obtain enhanced insights into real-world events; and
3. Use economic thinking to gain a deeper understanding of the foundations for learning in management study.
You are expected to achieve these outcomes in accord with the codes of ethics and behaviour endorsed by the UNSW.
Delivery Mode
Topics
- Overview Moodle site: operation, structure, course expectations
- Economics: foundations and models
- How markets work: demand, supply, and prices
- Firms and market structures
- Economic efficiency, market failure, government intervention
- Macroeconomic foundations
- Money and monetary policy
- Government budgets and fiscal policy
- International dimensions
- Markets at work and industry life cycle
- When markets "fail"
- Economic growth - causes and effects
- GFC - causes and effects