290042 SE Seminar in Economics (Macroeconomics) (2021W)

The socioeconomic costs of myths, distorted theories and half-truths in economics are more dangerous than pandemias. Among others, these costs comprise high unemployment, long-run redistribution from low to high incomes, increasing old-age poverty and under-development. This statement will be substantiated both by theoretical arguments and also by empirical case studies in the seminar.
It is the goal of the seminar on the one hand to make students (more) doubtful against widely accepted economic theories and, on the other hand, to provide solid arguments in defense of empirically supported theories.