BE
Business economics
Short course for the foundations of a real-world economics that provides the basis for all our other courses and services.
Aim of the course
The course aims to equip participants with an alternative, more real-world, economics training than that provided by most Universities. This will be done in the context of a demystification of the economics taught in higher education, and an unpacking of what are perceived to be problems with the standard economics texts used in the teaching of economics courses from secondary school onward. The aim of the exercise is to showcase the way in which the alternative approach can provide a more plausible and informed explanation of current trends in economic phenomena than what is taught in the Universities.
With this in mind, the last part of the course is dedicated to a case study of several emerging market economies using the alternative approach. Time is set aside for discussions of differences in the implications for business and investment decision-making arising from the alternative approach as compared with those arising from what is found in standard textbooks and courses based on these.
What you get out of the course
- Understand the most important economic indicators that require their attention when attempting to understand the dynamics of the global and emerging market economies.
- Make sense of the array of competing explanations of those economic phenomena that are seen as important for business and investment decision-making.
- Appreciate the significance of global and domestic policy making for the health and well-being of the global and domestic economic environments.
- Get a sense of the general direction in which the global and emerging market economies are headed with the aid of readily understandable charts and tables.
Overview
- 15 hours/24 hours
- Online/In-person
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No explicit knowledge of the economy or economics is presupposed. Serves as the foundation for: