{"id":35131,"date":"2025-04-05T09:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T07:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mead1.upatras.gr\/?post_type=courses&p=35131"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:13:25","slug":"introduction-to-economics-for-scientists-and-engineers","status":"publish","type":"courses","link":"https:\/\/mead.upatras.gr\/en\/courses\/introduction-to-economics-for-scientists-and-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"

COURSE CONTENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Introduction to the economic science<\/li>\n
  2. Theory of the Consumer\u2019s Behavior<\/li>\n
  3. Demand, supply and state intervention<\/li>\n
  4. Elasticities<\/li>\n
  5. Producers\u2019 behavior<\/li>\n
  6. Types of markets structure<\/li>\n
  7. The national product<\/li>\n
  8. The determination of the national product<\/li>\n
  9. Money and banks<\/li>\n
  10. The demand for money<\/li>\n
  11. Fiscal and monetary policy<\/li>\n
  12. Introduction to international economics<\/li>\n
  13. The International Trade<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    LEARNING OUTCOMES<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The students, after completing the course, will be able to:<\/p>\n

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    • know and use the basic methodological tools of microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis<\/li>\n
    • understand the behavior of consumers and producers in the various market form<\/li>\n
    • define the conditions of equilibrium the commodities market<\/li>\n
    • describe the determinants of demand and supply of products<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11551,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"msc_category":[],"courses_cat":[1654],"class_list":["post-35131","courses","type-courses","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","courses_cat-epilogis-1ou-eksaminou-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIntroduction to Economics - MEAD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mead.upatras.gr\/en\/courses\/introduction-to-economics-for-scientists-and-engineers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Introduction to Economics - MEAD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"COURSE CONTENT Introduction to the economic science Theory of the [...]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mead.upatras.gr\/en\/courses\/introduction-to-economics-for-scientists-and-engineers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"MEAD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-29T12:13:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mead.upatras.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/courses.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1374\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"776\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mead.upatras.gr\\\/en\\\/courses\\\/introduction-to-economics-for-scientists-and-engineers\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/mead.upatras.gr\\\/en\\\/courses\\\/introduction-to-economics-for-scientists-and-engineers\\\/\",\"name\":\"Introduction to Economics - 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