Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

The course aims to analyse the main characteristics of the digital economy, with a particular emphasis on its impacts on the production processes, global value chains and labour. Beyond the development of the big tech companies, this course will also consider side effects and counter-movements ranging commoning practices and trust issues to antitrust policies. The course will also offer the opportunity to get insights on methods (such as network analysis) as tools to investigate the ongoing changes in the digital economy.

The knowledge, skills and competences of EPOG+ graduates includes: (i) a state-of-the-art knowledge and expertise in the field of digital transitions; (ii) an in-depth “systemic” understanding of the interactions among economic policies.

Graduates should have a critical awareness of the problems related to global transition processes. They should be able to work on complex and varied issues and deal with different opinions and backgrounds in a team. They should be able to provide informed and fair assessments of the various solutions and propose hypotheses and ideas that go beyond the restatement or reproduction of past knowledge. They should be able to present their own views in a clear and succinct manner, and respond to objections in a firm, but diplomatic way.

Class teaching, discussion of specific cases, role playing, student presentation.

Student are required to work in groups of 3/4 to prepare a presentation and a term paper.

Lecture 1 – Economics of platforms (D. Flacher)

Lecture 2 – Platforms and the GVCs (D. Flacher)

Lecture 3 – Labour and the digital economy (D. Flacher)

Lecture 4 – Mapping the emergence of robots (P. Jollivet Courtois)

Lecture 5 – Trust, consumption and the digital economy (F. Huet)

Lecture 6 - Digital commons and Fablabs (D. Flacher)

Lecture 7 – The digital transition and the ecological transition (D. Flacher)

Lecture 8 – Students’ presentations

This course will be held in Paris.