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INET New Economics Degree Curriculum
Geoff Riley
1st August 2014
I hope that many economics teachers in the UK and beyond will be very interested in following the debates about reforming the undergraduate economics curriculum. This link http://www.res.org.uk/view/art3Jul14Features.html takes you to an entry in the latest RES newsletter which covers some of the changes made to the INET curriculum programme being led by Professor Wendy Carlin from UCL.
The revised course is divided into twenty-one units.2
- The capitalist revolution
- Innovation and the escape from the poverty trap
- Scarcity, work and progress
- Strategy, altruism and cooperation
- Property, contract and power
- The firm and its employees
- The firm and its customers
- Competitive goods markets
- Market dynamics
- Market successes and failures
- Credit markets, banks and money
- Economic fluctuations and unemployment
- Macroeconomic policy tools
- Managing unemployment and inflation
- Employment and living standards in the long run
- The Great Depression, the golden age and the financial crisis
- The nation in the world economy
- The economy of the earth
- Inequality and economic justice
- Innovation, information and property
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.