AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 3° Year - Curriculum DIFESA DELLE PIANTE COLTIVATE, Curriculum PRODUZIONI VEGETALI SOSTENIBILI and Curriculum ZOOTECNICO ECONOMICO

Learning Objectives

• AGRICULTURAL AND GENERAL ECONOMICS

  Students learn the basic skills of general economics; they analyze the choices and behavior of the entrepreneur, study the farm and the agricultural company, deepen the economic analysis of the management of the farm, determine the economic results of production and their distribution, learn the problems and methods of planning and choice of corporate investments. At the end of the course, students will be able to analyze, understand and undertake agricultural productive activities and face the problems of business management.

• Agricultural Policy

  The student acquires the basic tools for the knowledge on the functioning of a market economy at the macro level and on public intervention in the economy. He increase knowledge on the objectives and instruments governing the economic policy measures with regard to the agricultural sector.

  At the end of the course students will be able to analyze the role and functions of agriculture in different contexts and to develop models of multi-functional development of the agricultural and land.

Course Structure

• AGRICULTURAL AND GENERAL ECONOMICS

  lessons frontal and exercises

• Agricultural Policy

  Lectures, exercises, practical applications

  Tools to support teaching
  Blackboard, videoprojector, computer, internet access. All lessons are held with the help of presentations in ppt

Detailed Course Content

• AGRICULTURAL AND GENERAL ECONOMICS

  General notions. Economic assets and consumer choices. Analysis of the economic theory of supply and demand. Business theory. Market and its functioning. The production and the choices of the entrepreneur. Structure and management of agricultural production units. Problems and methods of business planning. Business analysis models. Choice of business investments.

• Agricultural Policy

  General concepts of macroeconomics; Concepts and tools of economic policy; Evolution of the objectives and instruments of agricultural policy; Interrelations between the agricultural sector and the socio-economic; Agricultural policy and labor, land, enterprise; Agricultural Policy and the European Union

Textbook Information

• AGRICULTURAL AND GENERAL ECONOMICS
  • ECONOMIA GENERALE E AGRARIA

  1) Samuelson P.A:, Nordhaus W.D., Bollino C.A. (2012):“Economia”. XIX Edizione, McGraw-Hill, (MI).

  2) Dominik Salvatore, (2010): "Microeconomia" Teoria e applicazioni. V edizione, Franco Angeli (MI):

  3) Messori F. (2007): “L’azienda agraria” – Introduzione all’economia dell’unità di produzione agricola. CLUEB (BO)

  4) Iacoponi L., Romiti R., (2004): “Economia e Politica Agraria”, Ed agricole Bologna.

• Agricultural Policy

  1. Segrè A., Politiche per lo sviluppo agricolo e la sicurezza alimentare (Manuali universitari), Carocci Editore, 2008.

  2. Iacoponi L., Romiti R., Economia e Politica Agraria, Ed agricole Bologna.

  3. De Stefano F. Problemi di politica agraria, Il Mulino Bologna.

  4. Lipsey R.G., Chrystal K.A., Macroeconomia, Zanichelli, Bologna.

  5. Publications distributed during the course