Description
This module introduces several tools of microeconomic analysis and their application to humanitarian contexts. Tools from microeconomics are important in humanitarian studies to understand issues of decision and choice, the production and exchange of goods, the pricing and use of inputs, and economic welfare.Ìý Key topics include preferences, constraints and incentives, production, the market as a mechanism to allocate resources, market failures, principal agent problems, social interaction as games, institutions, the role of the government and the efficiency and fairness of policy. The module will develop students’ critical thinking and reasoning skills. Students will also develop the confidence to interrogate and apply selected microeconomic concepts and models to specific case-studies from post-disaster, Ìýrecovery or other humanitarian settings.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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