ES32040: Technological change and sustainability
[Page last updated: 22 April 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Economics |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Semester 2
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| Assessment Summary: | EXCB 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Unseen Examination (EXCB 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must ( take ES22013 AND take ES22014 ) OR take ES20014
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Students will learn how to derive and assess policy relevant implications at an advanced level with an emphasis on most recent developments in the context of dynamic general equilibrium models.
- Students will acquire the competence and the awareness of areas of controversy and debate and therefore achieve a critical understanding of recent advancements in the area of dynamic macroeconomics at the interface between technology and sustainability.
- On successful completion of the unit students will have developed a systematic knowledge and critical awareness of advanced theory and its current limitations.
- A comprehensive understanding of relevant analytical techniques in terms of dynamic general equilibrium models.
- Students will be able to critically reflect relevant models in terms of their empirical relevance.
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| Synopsis: | Explore and analyse the socio-economic and environmental consequences of technological progress.
You will address two key macroeconomic trends that will affect the political agenda in the coming decades:
- automation and AI
- climate change
Through this unit you will learn to address insights and policy-relevant implications at an advanced level with an emphasis on most recent developments.
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| Content: | Skill-biased technological change; education and human capital; automation; artificial intelligence; environment and directed technological change.
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| Course availability: |
ES32040 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Economics
- UHES-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Economics (Year 3)
- UHES-AAB03 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHES-AKB03 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHES-AFB12 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Mathematics (Year 3)
- UHES-AAB04 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Mathematics with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHES-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Mathematics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHES-ACB04 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Mathematics with Combined Placement and Study Abroad (Year 4)
- UHES-AAB01 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Politics with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHES-AKB01 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Politics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHES-ACB01 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Politics with Combined Placement and Study Abroad (Year 4)
- UHES-ACB03 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Combined Placement and Study Abroad (Year 4)
- UHES-AFB11 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Politics (Year 3)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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