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18316 Principi di economia agroalimentare e vitivinicola in Food and Wine Technologies L-26 0 CARBONE Anna
(syllabus)
Microeconomics (6 CFU) • Introduction to Economics and its analytical tools • The objects studied by Microeconomics. • Rationality in Economics. The concept of opportunity cost • Ways of organizing the economic life • Economic agents and the marketplace • The demand function and its determinants • The supply function and its determinants • The production function • Production Costs analysis • Prices and market equilibrium. Surplus: concept and measure. Efficiency in economics. • The competitive market • Monopoly • Market failures: externalities and public goods • The role of the public sector in the economy: objectives and tools. Tax, subsidies and other economic policies. • The cobweb model; market margins in markets with multiple layers
The Agri-food System: general features and focuses on the Italian case (2 CFU) • The Agri-food System in the macro economy • Agri-food consumption: time-trends and actual situation • The main component of the System: Agriculture, food industry and retail: trends and features. International comparisons. • Focus on Short Food chains: SWOT analysis • The agri-food sector in the Lazio region: an overview • The wine sector in the Lazio region
(reference books)
Testi consigliati (in alternativa: 1) N. Gregory Mankiw, Mark P. Taylor, 2015,Principi di economia, Sesta edizione italiana, Zanichelli 2) Paul A. Samuelson, William D. Nordhaus e Carlo Andrea Bollino, 2014, Econmia, 20esima edizione italiana, McGraw Hill 3) Lieberman Marc; Hall Robert E., 2010, Principi di Economia, Apogeo 4) Altri, previo accordo con il docente for the selection of chapters, refer to the slides presented in the lesson and / or agree with the teacher. For the part on the Italian agri-food system, material provided by the teacher during the course or on request for non-attending students. The material is always available on the student portal (university platform, area of teaching materials of the course) and on the google drive shared with the teacher.
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