2023-2024 / ECON2294-1

General political Economics - Macroeconomics

Duration

30h Th, 15h Pr

Number of credits

 Bachelor in law3 crédits 
 Bachelor in political sciences : general3 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculty of Law, Political Science and Criminology)3 crédits 
 Bachelor in human and social sciences4 crédits 
 Bachelor in human and social sciences (New programme)5 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculty of social sciences)5 crédits 
 Bachelor in ancient and modern languages and literatures5 crédits 
 Bachelor in ancient languages and literatures : classics5 crédits 
 Bachelor in information and communication5 crédits 
 Bachelor in modern languages and literatures : German, Dutch and English5 crédits 
 Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : general5 crédits 
 Bachelor in history5 crédits 
 Bachelor in modern languages and literatures : general5 crédits 
 Bachelor in history of art and archaeology : musicology5 crédits 
 Bachelor in ancient languages and literatures : Oriental studies (Registrations are closed)5 crédits 
 Bachelor in philosophy5 crédits 
 Bachelor in French and Romance languages and literatures : general5 crédits 

Lecturer

Fabienne Fecher-Bourgeois

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

- National accounting.
- Analysis of the national economy, consumption and savings, investment. Calculation of National Revenue level and study of budgetary policy instruments (taxation and public expenditures).
- Inflation and unemployment.
- Analysis of monetary policy, money supply and demand.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- Define with appropriate terms the main economic concepts ;
- Understand and explain behaviors and fundamental mechanisms on the level of national and international economy ;
- Represent graphically the relations between economic variables ;
- Explain with a graph the impact of the variation of an economic variable on another (comparative statics) ;

- Interpret current statistics on aggregates and macroeconomic variables (GDP, public expenditures and taxes, unemployment, inflation, ...) ;
- Calculate, through simple numerical exercises, economic variables using theoretical models and formulas studied in the class.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Nil.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

15h of tutorials

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Additional information:

Lectures ans tutorials. Coaching The course includes tutorial sessions and exercises. Several groups are organised, each under the guidance of a student acting as a coach.

Recommended or required readings

  • PowerPoint presentations.
  • Jurion, B., 2013, Economie politique, De Boeck.
  • Tutorial book.

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

Professor : 
F. FECHER, Bureau I.61A (B.31), Email : ffecher@uliege.be

Assistants : 
H. BARVAUX, Bureau I.58 (B.31), Email: hugues.barvaux@uliege.be

F. VANDENINDEN, Bureau I.60 (B.31), Email: f.vandeninden@uliege.be


 

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