Achieve knowledge and understanding of the functioning of the markets and their different configurations in relation to the characteristics of the companies and other economic entities that participate in them. Understanding of the concept of economic efficiency also in relation to that of technical efficiency.
Knowing how to apply operatively the acquired knowledge also in a critical and contextualized way. Possess a responsible and professional approach to managing the economic complexity of the activities of the productive sector as a whole and of the individual companies that populate it.
Acquire the ability to collect and interpret the economic data concerning the management of the agri-food business and the markets. Knowing how to evaluate the type of intervention that the public sector can usefully spend to improve the economic efficiency of the sector and its social and environmental role.
The program of the course, the teaching method and that of individual learning control stimulate each student to become familiar with the analysis and the communication of the economic issues specific to the profession. The purpose is to understand and manage the complexity of the problems and to develop individual analytical skills and concrete problem solving strategies.
An approach is proposed that develops the ability to use the main economic concepts and models which are required for the analysis and evaluation of rapidly changing contexts also by activating autonomous capacities to further learn how to cope with new scenarios.