Units

The purpose of this unit is to understand how economics affects sport. We begin by focussing on the importance of sport to the economy. Microeconomic principles are then applied to various sports in order to understand the concept of compar…

In this unit you will learn how energy and associated environmental markets work (e.g. carbon markets), and the regulatory mechanisms that have been used or are available to achieve desired policy goals. Energy market policy often attempts…

The unit surveys the causes and consequences of economic development over the last centuries. Topics include analysis of climate, geography, institutions, human capital and technology on long-run growth. These topics are intended to enhance…

Economic analysis of human interactions within and beyond markets often relies on mathematical models. The ability to utilize the tools and techniques used to construct and analyse mathematical models is becoming increasingly valuable. You…

Research in economics has increasingly incorporated fields such as psychology, sociology, and biology. Together with this, the methods in economic research have expanded to include designed experiments and more recently advanced technology…

Game theory offers a tool for strategic thinking. It can be thought of as the art of beating your rivals, knowing that they are trying to do the same to you. Individuals, firms, governments and nations behave strategically, for good and bad…

This unit covers the core microeconomic theories and their applications. The main topics include theories of decision making in strategic and non-strategic contexts. The unit develops a thorough understanding of various market structures, a…

The unit covers core topics in economic history, including the sources of long-run economic change, the industrial revolution, the “Great Divergence,” the economic rise of the US, the spread of industrialisation, the processes promoting glo…

Many important human activities take place in the community and are not mediated by the price mechanism through the market. People give to charities, donate blood, join environmental movements, engage in discussion on the internet that shap…

In this unit, you will learn how to formulate compelling economic questions and effectively select, organize, and apply appropriate data and analytical methods. You will develop critical thinking skills, enabling you to evaluate suitable da…

This unit offers an introduction to experimental economics, its methods, applications, and scope to understand and affect everyday behaviour. Economic experiments have become a popular tool to test economic theory and to understand the caus…

Market design is a fast-growing area of economics that focuses on how the rules of a market shape outcomes. In this unit, you will learn to analyse and improve real-world markets - from school choice and kidney exchange to online platforms,…

Explore the multifaceted economic dimensions of climate change in this comprehensive unit. You'll delve into the impacts and economic costs of climate change, conduct global cost-benefit analyses, and critically evaluate the limitations of…

The unit develops and examines the theoretical and empirical relationship between monetary policy, real activity, and the financial markets. A rigorous theoretical framework will be developed to analyse conventional and unconventional monet…

This unit introduces you to topics and concepts that are of relevance in the context of economic development. The focus of this unit is on applying tools in economics in analysing important issues in development. The emphasis in the lecture…

This unit examines the role of diversity and inclusion in modern workplaces. Many modern workplaces still struggle with diversity and inclusion, and how it translates into better organisational performance. In this unit, we study the econom…

This unit aims to investigate the economic interaction between countries in the context of international exchanges of commodities, assets, and factors of production. You will develop an understanding of (a) the drivers and effects of intern…

This unit provides you with modern economic tools to tackle pressing economic and social issues such as inequality, gender pay gaps, migration, education, and discrimination. It builds solid theoretical foundations and then puts them to wor…

In this unit, you will examine how individuals make decisions about their health, how health care markets operate, and why they often fail to deliver efficient outcomes. You will explore key topics such as the demand for health services, th…

The unit topics include household and consumer finance, the role of debt and credit in the economy, firm investment, and implications of financial decision making. Tools and concepts are developed to explore these topics, which include (but…

This unit involves the study of a series of thinkers whose ideas helped to develop the approaches and tools that make up modern economics: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, Irving Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Sch…

The relationship between the public and private sectors is explored from the perspective of both public finance and political economy. Theories of public expenditure and revenue generation are introduced to assess the proper scope of the pu…

Industrial organisation (IO) studies firm behaviour and its consequences in settings where the assumption of perfect competition fails, i.e., where we can no longer just think about the intersection of a demand and supply curve. The topics…

The explosive changes in our abilities to communicate over distances—spurred on by the evolution of communication technologies, coupled with the increased capabilities of the internet and social media—have made social networks very salient.…

This unit is an introduction to contemporary political economy, emphasising core theoretical concepts and controversies and empirical evaluation. Before political science or economics, there was political economy. This unit studies the inte…

This unit provides an introduction to computers, microcontrollers, processor organisation, and algorithm design for engineering problems and embedded computer systems. Key microprocessor topics including serial communication, interrupts and…

This unit introduces you to modern logic design techniques, hardware used and common representations. Topics include two and multi-level combinational logic, decoders, multiplexers, arithmetic circuits, programmable and steering logic, flip…

This unit provides foundations for the electrical engineering areas of control, signal processing and communications. The unit introduces continuous-time and discrete-time signals and methods to analyse the effect that linear time-invariant…

This unit provides foundation knowledge for analogue circuit analysis and design. The fundamentals of linear electronic circuit analysis and design will be introduced alongside the development of skills in using industry-standard prototypin…

This unit will introduce fundamental concepts of probability theory applied to engineering problems in a manner that combines intuition and mathematical precision. The treatment of probability includes elementary set operations, sample spac…