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Excerpt from course description

Economics II

  • Norwegian
  • SØK xx21
  • 7.5 Credits

Course content

Tentative list of topics (with references to the proposed curriculum in parentheses): 

  1. Scarcity and choice: households, firms and equilibrium (CORE 3, 7 and 8 + matte) 
  2. Social interaction (CORE 4) 
  3. Property and power: Mutual gains and conflict (Core 5) 
  4. The firm: Owners, managers, and employees (CORE 6) 
  5. Banks, money and the credit market (Core 10) 
  6. Rent-seeking, price-setting, and market dynamics (Core 11) 
  7. Monetary policy and inflation targeting (S&R) 
  8. Fiscal policy and the oil fund, two-sector model (?) 
  9. The nation and the world economy (Core 18-Capstone) 
  10. Economic growth and growth accounting (Weil?) 
  11. Economic inequality (Core 19-Capstone) 
  12. Innovation, information, and the networked economy (Core 21-Capstone) 

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