Microeconomics of social relations

This course introduces students to the principles of economic science and their application to social relations and interactions.

During this elective course, we will study:

• economic efficiency vs. justice
• later methods of microeconomic analysis
• economic reasons and evolution of social interaction
• modern institutional economics
• elements of political economics and economics of law
• redistribution of wealth
• diversity economics and happiness economics

What is imperfect competition? How is the Protestant ethic linked to the contents of the course? How do social development goals evolve? What are the reasons and problems of intellectual property protection? How do happiness level and economic progress correlate with each other?

Looking for answers to these questions, students analyze convergence of methods and get the idea of what place economics has in the landscape of social sciences.