Economics and Political Science
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The two-year masters degree in Economics and Political Science (EPS) aims at developing a highly qualified learning track in the fields of economics and political science.In modern times economics and political science have been growing out of the same trunk, represented by moral and political philosophy. While drawing their origin and inspiration from this common matrix, the two fields have soon organised themselves according to autonomous epistemological statutes, to which distinct conceptual frameworks correspond. Nevertheless they have preserved their tight relationships, mutually affecting one another over the centuries.Indeed, not only their common origin, but also the extensive sharing of the very object of study have fostered the methodological and theoretical similarities between the two social sciences. Over the last two centuries, in particular, the increased public intervention in the economic sphere in all types of socio-economic systems, market economies included, has drawn the two disciplines closer, making them face a common set of issues and questions.In present-day research activity one can find countless instances of theoretical and empirical investigations where the boundaries between the two sciences become blurred and the tools and methods of analysis – from rational choice theory to game theory, from political philosophy to econometrics, from the theory of justice to welfare economics – turn out to be essentially the same. To cite just a few examples, one can mention the analysis of individual and collective choice in both the economic and the political field; the examination of the relationships existing between political institutions on one hand and economic growth or social welfare on the other; the discussion of public policies and their effects on individual and aggregate economic variables; the study of the interaction between government actions and business cycles.
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Applicants need a bachelor degree with a major in related field.The program has prerequisites in business administration, computer science, economics, law, management, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology or statistics.Applicants from non-anglophone countries must provide proof of English proficiency.Application deadline for non EU students is July 20.
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Milan
Lombardy
20122
Italy
- 2 years
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