Economic Analysis of Market Institutions

Aims of the course

- To develop knowledge of institutions, institutional economics, institutional change and development
- To develop a level of critical thinking about alternative economic theories. To master the application of neoclassical methodology in non-economic issues
- To develop a level of knowledge and critical theoretical thinking regarding the economic organization of the market, the state, and enterprises
- To develop the skill of applying institutional theory in the issues of development and change of institutional systems.

Course syllabus

1. Institutional theory and economics (fragmentation and instrumentalization of economics).
Economics as social theory.
2. Institutions and theory of economic systems. Theory of autopoietic organization. Theory of social
development.
3. Social capital. Formal and unformal institutions. Public and private institutions.
4. Basic market institutions and development of markets.
5. State nad regulation theory.
6. New institutiona theory of firms.
7. Institutional change, stability and social development.
8. Institutional analysis and economic history.
9. Institutional development and new economics of XXI. century.

Course director(s)

  • Bogomir Kovač, PhD, Full Professor

  • Academic Unit for Economics (Regular Member)
  • Academic Unit for Entrepreneurship (Associate Member)
  • Academic Unit for International Economics and Business (Associate Member)
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  • Office Hours
  • Tuesday at 12:00 in P-302
 
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