| Course title | |||||
| 経済学 [Economics] | |||||
| Course category | general education courses | Requirement | Credit | 2 | |
| Department | Year | 1～4 | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 020055 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 藤江 昌嗣, 吉田 央 [FUJIE Masatsugu, YOSHIDA Hiroshi] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Graduate School of Agriculture | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
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Our human activities have various contents. Living and economy have a deep relationship among them. Economics (modern economics) consists of microeconomics dealing with the behavior of economic entities such as enterprises and households, and macroeconomics with these entities as well as government and overseas departments as the subjects (departments). In this lecture, for the first time students studying economics, they acquire the mechanisms of actions of each entity and the efficient allocation of resources by the market, and then the economic policy and macro GDP (domestic Learn about the concepts of tariffs, tariff problems, regional economic integration (EU, ASEAN, TPP, RCEP, etc.), income circulation and market equilibrium / imbalance, and to be able to understand economic phenomena in front of you We are aiming at. Economic articles such as the Nihon Keizai Shimbun will be easier to read. In microeconomics, from the behavior of individual households and companies that refer to market prices, the supply and demand equilibrate in the market, the mechanism by which scarce resources are efficiently allocated, and the welfare that it brings to the whole market are analyzed It is an academic field. Macroeconomics is an academic field that analyzes the economic situation of a country as a whole due to economic variables such as production, income, consumption, government expenditure, investment, import and export, money amount, interest rate, price, unemployment rate . For the first time for engineering departments to learn economics, we will explain the fundamentals of macroeconomics necessary for understanding management science and real management practices. |
| Expected Learning |
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(1) Basic perspectives and concepts of microeconomics are focused on the viewpoint of individuals presumed by microeconomics, the behavior style of household (consumer) and company (producer), market image as price mechanism, etc. To acquire and to understand and explain economic phenomena in relation to management (2) Learn the fundamental viewpoints and concepts of macroeconomics centered on relationships of households, companies, governments, overseas departments in the macroeconomic cycle, demand and supply of goods, money, labor market, economic policy etc. To be able to understand and explain economic phenomena in relation to management |
| Course schedule |
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1. Target and method of microeconomics and macroeconomics ((Text 1-7, Reference book 1-20) 2. Resources and their efficient allocation (Text 8-19) 3. Market mechanism, demand curve and supply curve (Text 19-42) 4. Indifference curve and budget constraint line (Text 82-103) 5. Alternative effect and income effect (Text 103-114) 6. Short-term and long-term concepts and cost structure (Text 115-138) 7. Four production methods (robot production, line production, bench production, hand tool production) (Text 147-161) 8. Global economic problems (tariff problems, regional economic integration (EU, ASEAN, TPP, RCEP, etc.) (Reference books 80-95) 9. National Accounts Calculation and Macroeconomic Cycle (Reference Book 33-51) 10. IS-LM analysis and monetary policy (1) (print distribution) 11. IS-LM Analysis and Fiscal Monetary Policy (2) (Print Distribution) 12. Imbalance in demand and supply in labor market (print distribution) 13. Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates (Print Distribution) 14. Macroeconomics Issues and Market Failure (Reference Books 80-95) 15. Final exam |
| Prerequisites |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
| Fujie Masatsugu "New business ・ economics" Gakubunsha, 2016. You can purchase it at University Co-op. |
| References |
| Fujiie "New geopolitical macroeconomics seen from Asia" Gakbunsha, 2017. |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Evaluate comprehensively the degree of attainment of the above goal by regular test (60%) ・ attendance (40%). |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Economic activities are deeply interdependent not only in Japan but also overseas, especially the economic relationship with Asia is getting deeper. Please learn with the tool of economics that you are interested in domestic and foreign economic articles and corporate behaviors that are sent out in newspapers, television, magazines, etc., analyze calmly and judge yourself. |
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| Japanese |
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| Last update |
| 9/2/2018 12:41:52 PM |