COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MSH 0084 HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Efes Vocational School

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR HAKAN SÖNMEZ

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Course Objective

To examine in detail the physiocracy and the classical school which are included in the mercantilist doctrine and the liberal doctrine, and to focus on the analysis of these doctrines and schools' capital accumulation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will be able to make connections between ideology and economic thought
2   Students, institutional economics, Keynesian economics and socialist economic thoughts can learn and compare approaches to economics
3   Students will be able to explain the properties of mercantilism and physiocracy
4   Students will be able to list the characteristics of the teaching of classical system, liberal, Marxist, socialist, new classical and monetarist economics

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 History of economic thought as a science, basic debates on the history of economic thought
2 Economic thought in ancient Greece and Rome, economic thought in Islamic religion
3 Economic thought in Ibn Khaldun
4 Economic thought in the Middle Ages
5 Economic thought in the Ottoman Empire
6 Historical conditions of mercantilist thinking
7 Physiocratic economic thought
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Classical economic thought
10 Method in classical economics: ricardo domination
11 Neo-classical economic thought
12 Methods and general principles in neo-classical economics
13 Critics of classical economics
14 Critics of classical economics
15 Critics of classical economics
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Mesut Küçükkalay, (2015), Iktisadi Düşünce Tarihi, 4.Baskı, Beta Basım

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing and preparing to subjects

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Exams: There will be held on two in class exams; midterm exam and final exam during the semester.
Grades: 50 % Midterm Exam, 50 % Final Exam, 50 % Make-up Exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1) Attending at least 70 percent of lectures and fulfill the requirements of the course are mandatory.
2) Plagiarism of any type will result in disciplinary action.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

hakan.sonmez@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday, 13:00 - 16:30, Ground Floor, No: Z-08, Efes Vocational School, Selçuk / IZMIR.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 64

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45

CONTACT INFORMATION
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