General Economics

ECTS: 6  
Department: GACO  
Degree level: 1^st year of Bachelor
Teaching contact hours: 28  
Instructor: Aymeric LARDON

Learning objectives

The teaching in Economics aims to:

• Enable students to understand the main economic issues debated in the press.
• Develop analytical skills.

Course topics

The course in Economics is an introduction to the macroeconomic environment that entrepreneurs should know. It therefore deals with traditional topics and issues such as:

• GDP and relationships between economic agents.
• Money creation mechanisms.
• Short-term economic policies: budgetary and monetary policies.
• Analysis of State interventions in the economic system: the case of the public debt.

Teaching method

• Group of 28 students: weekly 1.5-hour seminar ("TD")
• Group of 100 students: weekly 1-hour lecture (in French, optional for Foreign students)

Assessment

• Graph Analysis Exam                1/3
• Intermediate Exam (2h)            1/3
• Final exam                                    1/3

Entry requirements

• None.