Absurdity in the Economy

1. Macroeconomics: Unemployment - Taxes - Pensions - Environment - EU economics - Alternative Macroeconomics: (Islamic and Buddhist approaches) - Cross-cultural economics 2. Microeconomics: Entrepreneurship - Households - Profitability - Bankruptcy - Work - Innovation "How to make the right mistakes fast?" 3. Decision making and Problem Solving: Experimental economics and Risk taking - Strangeness and paradoxes - Rationality and irrationality - Transition economics - Modelling of individual and group economic behaviour - Information sciences and decision making processes - ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and the economic behaviour of individuals and groups. 4. Money: Adaptation to the Euro - Banking - Investing and saving - Electronic money - Currency - Misuse of money - Insurance 5. Trade and the Market: Marketing and advertising - Supply and demand - Prosperity - Consumption 6. Business Ethics: Corporate social responsibility - Giving and altruism - Taking and egoism - Needs and values 7. Pathology in Economics: Gambling - The black economy - Prisons - Hospitals - Schools 8. Growth and Development: Children's socialization and adaptation - Welfare and poverty - Ageing - Quality of life - Global companies - Alternative economies - Income inequalities 9. Economic psychology and related disciplines