•GUIDA ECONOMIA 07-08 - Università degli studi di Udine

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V. New instruments and transnational
financial flows: the new frontiers.
VI. Foreign Trade, customs and trade barriers:
how to govern a tumultuous phase
of global development.
VII. A regional approach: new mobility
and development factors in a framework
that still lacks transnational institutions
of governance, control, sanctions and
enforcement.
2. Growth, new schools and theories
I. Growth and development in economic
theory: the neoclassical analysis and the
Solow model.
II. Keynesian models and some recent
evolutionary analyses.
III. Endogenous development, technical
progress and the question of convergence
or non-convergence of the various development
theories.
IV. Recent developments and evolution
of the traditional theories towards a more
emphasized representation of the dynamics
of the international economic system:
the FORMEL G model.
V. The economy of welfare, well-being
and public choice: from ideologies to governance
in a context of international competition.
VI. Poverty and inequality as striking variables
in international economics and
finance: possible convergence policies.
VII. Interdependence, interference, partnership
and alliance systems: searching
for a new international order in the face
of conflicts and inefficient multilateral
instruments.
3. Institutions, development and governance
in the framework of transition
I. International interference, the shifting
of vast areas of traditional national sovereignty
and new roles of the nation states.
II. Transition no longer deemed a category
of system underdevelopment and
change but as a long-term condition of
the global economic and geopolitical system.
III. Competitiveness and innovation: scientific
knowledge, human resources and
the assessment of the degree of investment
attraction. Interdependence as a
predominant medium-term factor.
IV. The public sector and research: the
return of economic models of coexistence
and convergence between the public and
the private sector. Reality and myths related
to the connection between investment
in research and industrial development:
preconditions, entrepreneurship, production
factors, human resources and
access to markets. The ‘one-sided
approach’ and its inefficiency.
V. Economics of defence expenditure and
interdependence with technological
innovation and transfer.
VI. The next imminent technological leap
forward and prerequisites of competence
and knowledge in order to apply VII. new
technology to the global production system.
4. Geography, history, geopolitics, the environment
and culture: the return of lost
knowledge
I. Development and geography, an inseparable
link.
II. The environment and the economy in
sustainable development. A utopia that
can come true.
III. Governing the international order
between hegemony, multiplicities, unilateralism
and new players. Conflict resolution
without a reform of the United Nations.
IV. Universalism and globalization in
search of values of coexistence and reconciliation.
V. Transition as a catalyst for global
change.
VI. Contemporary capitalism and types of
large enterprises, concentration of enterprises
and banks in the transnational context.
5. International finance and the instruments
available for economies that are emerging or
undergoing transition
I. Futures, swaps, options, derivatives,
equity funds, venture capital and bonds
in the new emerging countries.