Programa

Licenciatura em Gestão

Licenciatura em Economia

Programa

Part 1: Welfare Theory and Social Choice (a) Introduction (c) Externalities and market failures (d) Introduction to social choice: the Arrow theorem, SWFs (e) State intervention (f) Social decision making (g) Implications of voting: theory vs. practice (h) Introduction to the welfare state (i) Empirical measures of redistribution and inequality Part 2: The welfare- state 1. Welfare -state - historical origins (a) The nature of welfare- state (b). Plurality of models - the debate 2. The European Social Model (ESM) - an approach (a) The ESM - definitions and historical framework (b) Diversity and unity in the ESM (c) The European Union and the social policies - an overview 3. Main pillars of the Modern Welfare- state (a) The social protection policies - pensions, employment and poverty (b) The educations policies - models and results (c) The health systems - models and indicators 4. The main challenges