Czech

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After finishing the course students should be able to understand theoretical basis and principles of economics, in context of contemporary problems.

The knowledge of Macroeconomics 1 and Microeconomics 1 is expected.

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The course contains of two-hour lectures that explain basic principles, problems and methodology of the discipline, with a block of discussion at the end of the lesson.

Student gets classified credit if he receives at least 50 points out of 100 possible points. The form of the final evaluation is written test.
The scale of the resulting classification:
A: 90-100 points
B: 80-89 points
C: 70-79 points
D: 60-69 points
E: 50-59 points
F: less than 50 points

1. The beginnings of economic thinking, the oldest form of the economic systems.
2. Ancient economic thinking, ancient philosophy and its influence on the further formation of economic theories.
3. Medieval economic system and medieval economic thinking, scholasticism.
4. Merkantilism, the first comprehensive economic system and its influence on the formation of quantitative theory of money.
5. Economic directions of the 17th - 18th centuries, the beginnings of capitalism and the formation of theories preceding the Classic Political Economy.
6. Beginnings of Mainstream Economics, Industrial Revolution, Physiocratism, Classical Political Economics and its most important theories.
7. Marginalist Revolution and the development of New Classical Political Economy.
8. Economic directions outside the main economic stream, German Historical School, French Socialism, Marxism, and their influence on the formation of economic systems.
9. Great economic crisis and Keynesianism, its formation, the importance of the visible hand of the state, and the influence on the economic directions.
10. Neo-Keynesianism and the Keynesian crisis as the basis for the entry of Monetarism into the main economic stream.
11. Monitarism, its evolution, influence, form and importance in contemporary economic theories.
12. Development of contemporary economic directions and solutions of current economic issues.
13. Czech economic thinking and important facts that formed the contemporary Czech economic system.

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The main objective of the course is enlargement of macroeconomic knowledge and intensifying of students' abilities in understanding and solving of actual economics problems.

Control of students' attendance and results is fully in competence of the teacher.

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