Open Economic Lectures

Open Lectures in Economics in the academic year 2024/25

Edition IX October 2024 - January 2025

Online formula (MS Teams)

Selected Tuesdays 5.30 pm - 7.00 pm

Enrolment and registration: ekonomia@ug.edu.pl

The Open Economics Lectures, to which you are cordially invited, treat various aspects of economics! Economics describes and analyses what makes up economic reality. Microeconomics is the science that studies the individual elements that make up the economy (such as companies, households, branches and sectors of the economy, etc.). Macroeconomics uses aggregate quantities and studies the regularities that occur in the economy as a whole, such as, among others, the creation and distribution of national income, inflation, unemployment and many other phenomena that affect our everyday life.

For whom:

Attendees of the lectures can be people of all ages, young and old, pupils, teachers, students, graduates, people working in different sectors.

For students and teachers: it is a valuable aid to the issues that arise within the framework of ‘Entrepreneurship Basics’ and the teaching of economic and business subjects.

For pupils: some of the issues deal with economic problems that also occur in in subject competitions.

For students: an aid to understanding the issues discussed in course lectures and to supplement knowledge studied in other disciplines.

For everyone: an explanation of current economic phenomena taking place in the world around us.

The Open Economic Lectures have also become a source of inspiration in the search for a career path based on sound knowledge of the surrounding world and the socio-economic system in which we live.

Website of the Open Economic Lectures:

Faculty of Economics, University of Gdansk

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The next lecture will take place on 08.10.2024.

The lecture is entitled ‘Cheap shopping or expensive products? Who sets the prices and where? Learn about market mechanisms’

Lecture led by: Dr Sylwia Machowska-Okrój, Department of Microeconomics

Moderator: Dr Magdalena Markiewicz

On a daily basis, each of us is a consumer of various types of goods. Goods must first be produced by producers. Consumers and producers then buy and sell the goods on the market. Everyone knows that when we buy an item or a service, we want to acquire it as cheaply as possible. Businesses aim to sell it as expensively as possible. So how do we reconcile the separate interests of consumers and producers? Who should do this? How do we describe and study the market, the phenomena and processes in it? Is there any mechanism in the market, any laws to reconcile consumers and producers? What determines that we buy or do not buy goods and how much do we buy? What makes producers produce or not produce goods and how much do they produce?

Link to Open Economic Lecture 8.10.2024

For information on how to participate in the Open Economic Lectures, please also contact: ekonomia@ug.edu.pl

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