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21210003 POLITICHE MACROECONOMICHE PER LO SVILUPPO in Labour Market, Industrial Relations and Welfare Systems LM-56 SCARLATO MARGHERITA, D'AGOSTINO GIORGIO
(syllabus)
Macroeconomics, inequality and development
The course addresses a number of macroeconomic issues with a focus on development and growth, income distribution, institutions, and the growth-inequality-poverty nexus.
The module will typically cover the following topics:
• Introduction: principal macroeconomic issues of development
• Economic growth: Growth models as tools for analyzing the macroeconomics of development
• Geography, Culture and Institutions
• Income distribution and Macroeconomics
• Inequality, growth and welfare policy
(reference books)
1.D Acemoglu (2009) Introduction to modern economic growth, Princeton University Press, capitoli 1-4.
2.C. Jones (2016) The facts of economic growth, in Handbook of Macroeconomics, eds J. Taylor, H. Uhlig, vol.2A, cap.1.
3. D Acemoglu, S Johnson, JA Robinson (2005) Institutions as a fundamental cause of long-run growth, in Handbook of Economic Growth, eds P Aghion, P Durlauf, cap.6.
3. Slides of the lessons.
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