Corso di studio in Economia e Management

The module provides students with the conceptual and methodological tools useful to interpret the development paths of the socio-economic systems of advanced capitalism and appreciate their differentiation, within the framework of the growing process of integration and interdependence on a global scale.

Thanks to the module the student will acquire:

-knowledge of the sociological survey design of economic development and the main results of the analysis on the topics involved in the program;

-the ability to apply the conceptual categories, methods and research techniques characteristic of the discipline;

-the ability to recognize how economic development processes are enabled or hindered by cognitive, cultural and political factors;

-an appropriate language for the presentation of complex interpretative models, based on the interdependence between economic and social factors;

-the skills to select scientifically relevant sociological literature on economic development and to make good use of it in the implementation of research projects conducted independently.

Lesson runs as a seminar. Students are involved in the critical analysis of the transformation of the socio-economic systems in the shift from the arrangement of industrial society to those of advanced tertiary society.

Selected topics:

- reflect the international scientific debate and identify an appropriate mix of traditional and emerging issues;

- illustrate the key theories and concepts, the main research results and some empirical application of the knowledge conveyed to the study of real world.

The evaluation will privilege the form of the oral interview, aimed at ascertaining the knowledge of the topics dealt with and the capacity for critical reasoning.

The procedures for verifying learning may undergo variations in relation to the evolution of the Covid-19 health emergency.

METHODS OF LEARNING EVALUATION – RECTOR’S DECREE N. 1561

Starting from the 2020-21 summer session, the exams will be held as an in-class evaluation on all course topics (Rector's Emergency Decree no. 1561 of April 16^th 2021)

The assessment will take place at the SME - School of Management and Economics and is organized as an oral interview on specific questions on whole the topics of the program.

Students residing or dwelling off-site, in quarantine, in a highly frail situation or cohabiting with family members in a highly frail situation may apply for remote evaluation (online). In this case the learning evaluation will be exclusively held as an oral interview, on five really specific questions. Students will be questioned according to the schedule defined by the Commission. All course topics will be involved in the assessment.

To access to the remote evaluation, the eligible students must strictly comply with the following procedures.

1. Residence or dwelling outside the Piedmont region or quarantine (both mandatory and fiduciary)

The student must regularly register for the test on Esse3, indicating in the Notes field the need to take the test remotely and the relative motivation ("Residence outside the region" or "dwelling outside the region" or "Quarantine").

At the same time, the student have to provide the declaration duly signed and accompanied by a front / back copy of the identification document. The form can be found on the Moodle page of Soft skills in business page AY 2020-21, Section “Methods of learning evaluation”. The required documentation must be uploaded in the folder “Exam mode - Appeal of dd / mm / yyyy” within the exam registration deadline.

2. Fragility of oneself or of cohabiting family members

The student must regularly register for the test on Esse3, indicating in the Notes field the need to take the test remotely and the relative motivation ("Fragility of oneself" or "dwelling outside the region" or "of cohabiting family members ").

At the same time, the student have to provide the declaration duly signed, a front / back copy of the identification document upload the documentation and the certification of the attending physician or specialist who certifies the presence of this condition without specifying its nature or indicating other sensitive health data. The form to certify the reasons for the request can be found on the Moodle page of Soft skills in business page AY 2020-21, Section “Methods of learning evaluation”. The required documentation must be uploaded in the folder “Exam mode - Appeal of dd / mm / yyyy” within the exam registration deadline.

The condition of high "high fragility" refers to the definition of Category 1, Table 1 or Table 2, of the interim Recommendations on the target groups of the anti Sars-Cov2 / Covid 19 vaccination of the Italian Ministry of Health, published in the Official Journal, Series general, of 23 March 2021, n. 72 (available at the link).

Please note that making false statements or forming false documents constitutes a crime and the Administration reserves the right to verify the veracity and authenticity of what is declared or transmitted.

Interactive use of the Moodle platform.

The program analyzes development as a multidimensional process of economic, socio-cultural and political transformation. Attention focuses in particular on the characteristics of European capitalism. The starting point is the study of the four models of the organization of the socio-economic systems: Scandinavian, Continental, Anglo-Saxon, Mediterranean. For each model, lectures focus on the determinants of the institutional rooting of development paths, namely the role of the state, credit, welfare, education and training, the labor market, industrial relations, innovation. This approach allows students to understand how and why certain countries are better than others at combining competitiveness and social inclusion.

Burroni L. (2016), Capitalismi a confronto. Istituzioni e regolazione dell’economia nei paesi europei, Bologna, Il Mulino.

Some supplementary readings will be suggested at the beginning of the course to ensure the necessary updating of the analysis of particularly topical issues.

The way the course is delivered could get modified due to rules following the current health crisis. Distance learning is however guaranteed for the entire academic year.