MN32188: Economics: interdisciplinary approaches
[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| 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: | EXOB 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Open book time limited seen exam (EXOB 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 MN12009 OR take MN12011 OR take MN10574 OR take MN10070 OR take MN10567 OR take ES10010 OR take MN12217
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Identify key business/management challenges/opportunities and issues.
- Evaluate real-life business/management problems with a view to identifying feasible solutions.
- Critically discuss and evaluate management theory and practice.
- Identify and scope problems in context.
- Apply models, theories, and best practice to analyse problems in context.
- Develop the entrepreneurial mindset to enhance creativity, leadership, teamwork, innovation and confidence.
- Evaluate policy perspectives and policy responses to social and economic challenges
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| Synopsis: | This unit adopts a pluralist approach to economic analysis. You will explore elements of heterodox (non-mainstream) economics to develop a greater understanding of the current economic environment and associated issues. You will explore a range of topics to develop a deeper appreciation of the role and nature of firms and markets in a complex economy. You will develop the ability to use and synthesise a variety of microeconomic theories and perspectives to provide strategy/policy recommendations
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| Content: | You will be introduced to a diverse range of economic perspectives and schools of thought. This will include approaches that draw lessons from related social science disciplines, such as Political Economy, Austrian Economics, Psychology, Evolutionary Economics, and Systems Thinking. Topics will likely include some or all of the following: evolving complex adaptive systems; economic governance; regulation; development; and place based industrial strategy.
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| Course availability: |
MN32188 is Optional on the following courses:
School of Management
- UMMN-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Finance (Year 3)
- UMMN-AKB02 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Finance with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UMMN-AFB11 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Management (Year 3)
- UMMN-ANB07 : BSc(Hons) Business with Thin sandwich placement(s) (Year 4)
- UMMN-AYB06 : BSc(Hons) International Management with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UMMN-AFB14 : BSc(Hons) Management (Year 3)
- UMMN-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Management with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UMMN-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Management with Marketing with Year long work placement (Year 4)
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UXXX-AYB05 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (French) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UXXX-AYB04 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (German) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UXXX-AYB06 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
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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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