Магистратура
2021/2022
Экономика государственного хозяйствования
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Государственное и муниципальное управление)
Направление:
38.04.04. Государственное и муниципальное управление
Кто читает:
Департамент политики и управления
Где читается:
Факультет социальных наук
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 2 модуль
Формат изучения:
с онлайн-курсом
Онлайн-часы:
20
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Клищ Николай Николаевич
Прогр. обучения:
Государственное и муниципальное управление
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
2
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course offers an introduction into the public economics theory. It does not aspire to cover theories of taxation, public expenditures, regulation etc. at length and in-depth. Rather, our ambition is to give a bird's-eye view of central themes of public economics and related disciplines, and teach concepts, logic, and ideas, rather than methods of analysis, which would require an entirely different course format. Our choice of topics covered by the course reflects a trade-off between salience and centrality, on the one hand, and suitability for a brief online introductory course, on the other. The course content is neither comprehensive (which would be a "mission impossible" for virtually any public economics course"), nor representative of other such courses. With these limitations and caveats in mind, we encourage our students to continue their public economics studies in a more regular fashion, and see our role inter alia in motivating interest in such "continued education". The central theme of the course is the role of government as a mechanism of resource allocation which complements and augments markets. Governments are viewed as public agencies set to correct market failures. Such agencies however are prone to failures of their own, and hence markets and governments are two imperfect alternatives. We deal with government's limitations, with particular emphasis on those that have to do with informational asymmetry, limited administrative capacity, and imperfect accountability to society. Otherwise the course's man themes are economics of taxation, regulation, politics of public economics, incentives in government, and government vis-à-vis (civil) society.
Learning Objectives
- give a bird's-eye view of central themes of public economics and related disciplines
- teach concepts, logic, and ideas, rather than methods of analysis
Expected Learning Outcomes
- know about the course and the university
- know external and internal agency problems, i.e. relations between government (as an agent) and society (the principal) and between rank-and-file bureaucrats (the agents) and their bosses (the principals)
- know how governments perform their key functions such as public regulation and public service delivery
- know how public economic policies differ from each other in democracies and autocracies
- know reasons calling for government presence in market economies
- know the positive and normative theories of taxation, ways and means to collect public revenues, and existing informational, administrative, political constraints governments have to deal with
- know the role of society in public sector economics
Course Contents
- Introduction
- Government in a Market Economy
- Design of Government: A Tax Theory Primer
- Scope of Government
- Politics of Public Economics
- Working of the Government
- Government and Society
Assessment Elements
- Online tests
- Final interviewStudents provide online course results. Grade for the course is set by the program supervisor after the students pass the final interview.
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Hindriks, J., & Myles, G. D. (2013). Intermediate Public Economics. The MIT Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.mtp.titles.0262018691
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Anthony B. Atkinson, & Joseph E. Stiglitz. (2015). Lectures on Public Economics Updated edition. Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.pup.pbooks.10493