1. Definition of the discipline´s curriculum. Economy vs. economics, positive and normative economy, research methods in economy, division of economy as a science, basic economy questions and terms. 2. Foundations of economic thinking. The development of economy theories from the antiquity and middle age until now. Prevailing economy approaches from the English classical economy until today. Classical school, liberalism, Keynesianism, neo-liberalism, monetarism etc. 3. Market mechanism. Central, mixed and market system. Market mechanism, main features and characteristics - "what, how and for whom to produce", production agents - labour, soil, capital, price of production agents, primary and secondary production agents, basic features, value vs. price, price as a market phenomenon. 4. Markets. Definition of a market, kinds of markets, partial and aggregate market, goods and services market, capital market, money market, labour market - basic features and characters. Market organization, perfect concurrence, imperfect concurrence, monopolist concurrence, oligopoly, monopoly, and monopsony. 5. Market forces - offer. The principle of positively declined offer, elasticity of offer, shifts in offer and on offer, factors of offer, substitutes, complements, specific forms of offer curve. 6. Market forces - demands. The principle of negatively declined demands, elasticity of demands, shifts in demands and on demands, factors of demands, substitutes, complements, specific forms of demands curve. 7. Subjects of a market. Households (consumer), companies, states, multinational subjects. Globalization, causes, consequences, big vs. small open economy, multinational economic units etc. 8. Macro-economy features. Gross domestic product, gross national product, net domestic product, net national product, unemployment measure, types of unemployment, measure of net economic welfare. Misbalances - deflation, inflation, disinflation, stagflation, tax-inflation - their causes and means of their solving. 9. Economy policy. Goals, subjects of economy policy, means of economy policy, limits of the efficiency of individual means of economy policy, contradictory goals, economy cycles - causes, consequences, solution. 10. Fiscal policy. Fiscal vs. budget policy, kinds of public budgets, public finance. State budget - incomes, outcomes, basic thesis and foundations, budgets of counties and municipalities, other public budgets. Public budgets´ deficiency, public debt, solution, public finance reform. 11. Monetary policy. Goals of monetary policy, means of monetary policy, subject of monetary policy. The central bank, independency of the central bank, types of monetary policies - restrictive and expansive, basic thesis and foundations, limits of monetary policy. 12. European economic integration. Brief introduction of the history of the economic integration. Economic and monetary union, euro, Maastricht convergent criteria, European central bank, European system of central banks, monetary policy of EU.
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