Specialization: university course
Warrantor: Ing. Tomáš Dudáš, PhD.
Instructor: Ing. Tomáš Dudáš, PhD.
Lecturing hours (weekly): 2
Credits: 3 ECTS
Date: every Thursday 3:15 - 4:45 pm
Room:
Working language: English
Evaluation: Grades will be made up by the following components:
- presence and active participation at seminars
- essay (5-7 pages)
The aim of the course: The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the economic development, current state and the future of the US economy - the biggest and the most developed economy in the world. Students will familiarize themselves with the most important periods of the US economy (e.g. rapid development of the early capitalism, the Great Depression, Reaganomics, Clintonomics, current economic crisis), its current state and its anticipated routing in the following decades.
Preliminary timetable of the course:
- Creation of the modern US economy in the 19th century
- The Great Depression in 1929 and The New Deal
- US economic policy in the 1950´s - model of neokeynesianism
- Growth-based economic policy in the 1960´s
- The crisis of the US economy and economic policy in the 1970´s
- Wedging of the neoliberal economic policy - Reaganomics
- 1990´s and the economic policy of president Clinton
- Economic policy of president Bush and the advancement of the US economy in the new millennium
- Current economic crisis in the US and the attempts to find a solution for it
- The outer aspect of US economic policy from Roosevelt to Obama
- The future of US economy
- Case study - rise and fall of the US car industry
- Overall evaluation of the course
