820 Business-Government Relations
Content
- Contemporary business-government relations and interdependence.
- Endogenous growth theory.
- Socio-economic importance of government.
- Governmental interventionism in the economy.
- Agency problem.
- Administrative output and administrative control.
- Government and relations between political and administrative system, public policy formulation and implementation related to business sector and analysis of selected policy areas.
- Economic cycles and variations in governmental interventionism in the economy.
- Demographic and environmental changes and their impact on business-government relations.
- Administrative imperfections in practice.
- Problems of governance.
- Existence of international and supranational clubs in the context of business-government relations.
Objectives and competences
Student
- discovers the relations and mutual interdependence between business sector, administrative system and political institutions in modern »mixed type« economies
- relates developmental and socio-economic impacts of government interventionism
- illustrates main economic problems of modern societies, particularly related to governmental policy making
- shows the effect of various international and supranational clubs on policy making
- uses the knowledge to outline current socio-economic problems.
Competences
- to critically evaluate public policies in the area of business sector,
- to understand the effect of micro and macro elements in the functioning of administrative/governmental system,
- to understand the functioning of government in policy formulation (related to business sector),
- to summarise the perceived problems in practice related to functioning of the business sector,
- to place in the context practical solutions for economic and governance related problems of modern societies.