Classes

The course will focus on a range of topics in public economics including welfare estimation of tax and expenditure policies, including income and commodity taxation, public goods, education, and place-based policies. We will also discuss foundations for government...

This course discusses basic questions in economics like: When can markets be inefficient? When do such inefficiencies generate a rationale for the government to intervene? By what methods should the government intervene? We begin the course by reviewing the basic welfare...