Introduction to Economic and Business Sciences
Áreas Científicas |
Classificação |
Área Científica |
OFICIAL |
Gestão e Administração |
Ocorrência: 2022/2023 - 2S
Ciclos de Estudo/Cursos
Sigla |
Nº de Estudantes |
Plano de Estudos |
Anos Curriculares |
Créditos UCN |
Créditos ECTS |
Horas de Contacto |
Horas Totais |
CCD |
15 |
Plano de Estudos |
1 |
- |
4 |
45 |
108 |
Docência - Responsabilidades
Língua de trabalho
Portuguese
Obs.: Português
Objetivos
- To Provide the basic concepts of micro-economic analysis defined as a study of the behaviour logic of individual economic agents(families and companies) and the markets where they operate with regard to the production, consumption and exchange of goods and services;
- To Understand and interpret the behaviours that determine the demand and supply of goods, the allocation of productive resourcesthrough the market system, the determination of individual income and the profitability of companies;
- Identify and understand the basic models of the market structure and how companies behave in these different structures;
- Identify, understand the importance and relate the different functions of business management, including planning, organisation, management and control;
- Generally, understand the measures of the country's economic activity.
Resultados de aprendizagem e competências
- provide the basic concepts of micro-economic analysis defined as a study of the behaviour logic of individual economic agents(families and companies) and the markets where they operate with regard to the production, consumption and exchange of goods andservices;
- Understand and interpret the behaviours that determine the demand and supply of goods, the allocation of productive resources through the market system, the determination of individual income and the profitability of companies;
- Identify and understand the basic models of the market structure and how companies behave in these different structures;
- Identify, understand the importance and relate the different functions of business management, including planning,organisation, management and control;
- Generally, understand the measures of the country's economic activity.
Modo de trabalho
Presencial
Pré-requisitos (conhecimentos prévios) e co-requisitos (conhecimentos simultâneos)
Not apply
Programa
Microeconomics
- Fundamental concepts of economics
- Economics as a science
- Scarcity problem
- Free goods and economic goods
1.2.2 Frontier of production possibilities
- Functioning of the economic system
- Elementary theory of supply and demand
- Supply and demand function.
- Determinants of demand and supply.
- Shifting of demand and supply curves.
- Market balance.
- Changes in market balance.
- Elasticity
- State intervention.
- Rational consumer choice
- Budgetary constraint.
- Theory of
- Optimal consumer
- Consumer
- Company theory
- Production
- Production with one variable input
- Production with two variable inputs
- Cost
- Market structures
- Organization management
- Main concepts
- Introduction to the general theory of the organization
- Macroeconomics
- Measure of economic activity
- Real aggregates and nominal aggregates
Bibliografia Obrigatória
Samuelson, P. E Nordhaus, W. ; Economia, 19a Ed., , McGraw Hill, 2011
Métodos de ensino e atividades de aprendizagem
Theoretical-practical classes where concepts based on situations of family, business and global economic status are transmitted.
Students are encouraged to reflect on real situations through exercises as a way to consolidate theoretical concepts.
If it is not possible to take the test and/or exam in person, because of the pandemic, an oral test may be required for all students who obtain a rating greater than or equal to 10.
Tipo de avaliação
Distributed evaluation with final exam
Componentes de Avaliação
Designation |
Peso (%) |
Participação presencial |
10,00 |
Teste |
90,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Componentes de Ocupação
Designation |
Tempo (Horas) |
Estudo autónomo |
63,00 |
Frequência das aulas |
45,00 |
Total: |
108,00 |
Obtenção de frequência
Not apply
Fórmula de cálculo da classificação final
Distributed evaluation with final exam.