The Department of Economic Theory is the successor to the Department of Political Economy, established at the university in 1933. Over the years, it was headed by V.S. Axelrod, L.K. Novoselov, V.N. Alekseev, I.I. Tereshkov, S.I. Hubarevich, M.I. Nozdrin-Plotnitsky, A.K. Khomyakov, N.I. Bazylev.
Since 2004, the department is headed by Victor Vorobyov, Professor, Dr. hab. (Economy), chairman of the Scientific and Methodological Council in specialties "Economic Theory" and "Economics" of the educational and methodical association of economic education, chairman of the expert council on economic sciences of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus , author and co-author of more than one hundred and eighty scientific and educational works.
Disciplines of the department:
For students of the 1 degree of higher education:
• Agricultural policy
• Institutional economy
• Economy (required module)
• Macroeconomics
• Microeconomics
• Microeconomics and macroeconomics
• Model macroeconomic analysis
• Public choice
• Applied microeconomics
• Social policy
• Theory of industrial markets
• Theory of transformational processes
• Economics of information
• Public sector economics
• Economic policy of foreign countries
• Economic theory
For students of the 2 degree of higher education:
• Design of economic mechanisms
• Institutional economics
• Institutional analysis
• Macroeconomic analysis and policy
• Microeconomic analysis and policy
• Industrial policy
• Sectoral policy in the Republic of Belarus
• Behavioral and experimental economics
• Economic analysis of political decision-making processes
The department is graduating for the following specialties:
1-25 01 01 "Economic Theory" (specialization 1-25 01 01 01 "Economic Policy");
1-25 01 02 Economy (specialization 1-25 01 02 01 "Analytical Economics")
Scientific work
The scientific work of the department is carried out in close cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus, research and higher educational institutions.
The staff of the department is actively involved in the preparation of textbooks and manuals on economic disciplines, which correspond to the curriculum of the new generation and are recommended by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus for higher educational institutions.
