Economics

This course explores new perspectives in economics related to the environment and sustainable development goals. It discusses the limits of the green circular economy, the main dilemmas and implications of growth for society and the environment, and the trade-off between economic growth and environmental protection and social justice.

This course reviews the development of selected research topics from the fields of economic theory such as general equilibrium theory, game theory, mechanism design, decision theory, social choice theory, information economics, and behavioral economics. 

This course introduces students to the theoretical and empirical research in behavioral economics and discusses how the use of methods and evidence in behavioral economics has changed both economics as a discipline and policymaking processes in the past few decades.

This course combines economic theory with historical facts and examines the economic and social development of the East and the West. It covers the important historical content of all human economic and social activities from the origin of agricultural civilization to the present day, such as the origin of agricultural civilization, the great Geographical discovery, Columbus exchange, religious Reform, industrial Revolution, modern industrialization, the Great Depression, globalization and other related issues.

In many situations, economic actors need to make decisions while knowing that the final outcome also depends on the decisions of others. Such situations are called games, and the actors involved are called players. In order to reach a good decision, it is important for a player to reason about the decisions and motivations of their opponents. This course teaches how to reason about your opponents in game theoretic situations, and how to use this reasoning to make good decisions. The theory is applied to various economic situations of interest.