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Matematica per le scienze sociali (II SEM) (Prof. Ivar Ekeland) (visiting)
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Anno accademico 2021/2022
- Codice dell'attività didattica
- INT 1466
- Docente
- Ivar Sigur Elias Ekeland (Titolare del corso)
- Corso di studi
- Corso SSST
- Periodo didattico
- Secondo semestre
- Tipologia
- A scelta dello studente
- Crediti/Valenza
- 3 (18 ore)
- SSD dell'attività didattica
- MAT/07 - fisica matematica
- Modalità di erogazione
- Tradizionale
- Lingua di insegnamento
- Inglese
- Modalità di frequenza
- Obbligatoria
- Tipologia d'esame
- Elaborato e orale
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Sommario insegnamento
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Obiettivi formativi
In this course, I will show the use and the limits of mathematical models in the social sciences, psychology and sociology, with an emphasis on the economic approach to human behaviour. I will investigate collective decision-making, and show how social institutions, such as private property, markets on money, influence our relation to nature. The course will conclude with a focus on climate change and biodiversity loss.
I will focus on theoretical models, and I will keep away from statistics. A basic understanding of functions and calculus (differentiation, maximisation) is required.
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Modalità di insegnamento
There will be nine lessons of two hours- Oggetto:
Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
Students will be divided into groups of two or three according to their number, and each group will be assigned a task to be presented at the end of the course
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Programma
1. Introduction to social sciences. The individual vs. society.
2. The social contract (Hobbes, Rousseau, Rawls). Voting procedures. Self-implementing contracts, free riders, a role for coercion. Resources and sharing.
3. Private property, money and markets. The price as a common value. In what sense is economic equilibrium good?
4. The problem of production and surplus value: Marx against the neo-liberals. Market imperfections: externalities, and how to correct them (Pigou, Coase)
5. The common good. The greatest good for the greatest number ? What is the value of nature ? What is the value of education, or health? The influence of indicators in public life and war: GNP, the economic theory of law, the least of all possible evils.
6. Case study 1: oceans and fisheries as a renewable resource
7. Case study 2: climate change, problems and actors
Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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Note
GIO 12/5, VEN 13/5, GIO 19/5, VEN 20/5, GIO 26/5, VEN 27/5, MER 1/6, VEN 3/6, GIO 9/6 ore 15-17, aula 1.05
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