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Re: national eligibility test economics syllabus
The syllabus of UGC NET (Union Grant Commission National Eligibility Test) Paper – II – Economics is as follows: UGC NET PAPER – II 1. Micro – Economic Analysis • Demand Analysis – Marshallian, Hicksian and Revealed preference approaches. • Theory of Production and Costs. • Pricing and output under different forms of market structure. • Factor Pricing analysis. • Elements of general equilibrium and new welfare economics. 2. Macro – Economic Analysis • Determination of output and employment – Classical approach, Keynesian approach, Consumption hypotheses. • Demand for Money – Fisher and Cambridge versions, Approaches of Keynesian, Friedman, Patinkin, Baumol and Tobin. • Supply of Money, Determinants of money supply, High – powered money, Money multiplier. • Phillips Curve analysis. • Business cycles – Models of Samuelson, Hicks and Kaldor. • Macro – economic Equilibrium – Relative roles of monetary and fiscal policies 3. Development and Planning • Economic Growth, Economic Development and sustainable Development – Importance of institutions – Government and markets – Perpetuation of underdevelopment – Vicious circle of poverty, circular causation, structural view of underdevelopment – Measurement of development conventional, HDI and quality of life indices. • Theories of Development – Classical, Marx and Schumpeter; Economic Growth – Harrod – Domar model, instability of equilibrium, Neoclassical growth – Solow’s model, steady state growth. Approaches to development : Balanced growth, critical minimum effort, big push, unlimited supply of labour, unbalanced growth, low income equilibrium trap. • Indicators and measurement of poverty. • Importance of agriculture and industry in economic development – choice of techniques and appropriate technology – Investment criteria – Elementary idea of cost – benefit analysis. • Trade and Aid – International trade as ‘engine of growth’ – Globalization and LDC’s Objectives and role of monetary and fiscal policies in economic development Techniques of planning; Plan Models in India; planning in a market – oriented economy. 4. Public Finance • Role of the Government in Economic activity – Allocation, distribution and stabilization functions; Private, Public and Merit goods. • The Public Budgets – Kinds of Budgets, Zero – base budgeting, different concepts of budget deficits; Budgets of the Union Government in India Public Expenditure – Hypotheses; effects and evaluation. • Public Revenue – Different approaches to the division of tax burden, incidence and effects of taxation; elasticity and buoyancy; taxable capacity Public Debt – Sources, effects, burden and its management. • Fiscal Federalism – Theory and problems; Problems of Centre – State Financial relations in India. • Fiscal Policy – Neutral and compensatory and functional finance; balanced budget multiplier. 5. International Economics • Theories of International Trade : Empirical verification and Relevance International Trade under Imperfect competition Terms of Trade and Economic Growth – Secular Deterioration of Terms of Trade Hypothesis – a critical review. • Equilibrium / disequilibrium in Balance of Payment – Traditional, Absorption and Monetary approaches for adjustment in the Balance of Payments, Foreign Trade multiplier. • Impact of Tariffs, Partial and general equilibrium analysis; Political economy of Non-Tariff Barriers. • Theory of regionalism at Global level – Collapse of Bretton – Wood System – Recent. • Monetary reforms. • Trade Policy and Reforms in India. 6. Indian Economy • Basic Economic indicators – National income, performance of different sectors Trends in prices and money supply. • Agriculture – Institutional and technological aspects, new agricultural policy Industry – New industrial policy and liberalization. • Money and banking – Concepts of money supply, inflation, monetary policy and financial sector reforms. • Public finance – Trends in revenue and expenditures of the Central and State Governments, Public debt; analysis of the Union Budget. • Foreign trade – Trends, Balance of payments and trade reforms. • Poverty, unemployment, migration and environment. 7. Statistical Methods • Measures of Central tendency, dispersion, skewness and kurtosis. • Elementary theory of probability – Binomial, Poisson and Normal distributions. • Simple correlation and regression analysis. • Statistical inferences – Applications, sampling distributions (t, x2 and F tests ) sampling of attributes, testing of Hypothesis. • Index numbers and time series analysis. • Sampling and census methods, types of sampling and errors. |
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