Descriptive Economy

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

After an overview of national accounts centered on the circulation of income in the economy national level, the course reports on household consumption behavior and business investment in France over the last 30 years. It tries, by mobilizing theoretical approaches and empirical studies, to identify the factors that appear to best determine these behaviors and then show how they are responsible, to a large extent, for the often sluggish growth of GDP in France.