Master
2025/2026
Public Economics
Type:
Compulsory course (Population and Development)
Delivered by:
Department of Applied Economics
When:
1 year, 1, 2 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
Contact hours:
48
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This introductory course in Public Economics covers basic issues including a role of government in modern market economies, market failures and public goods, equity-efficiency trade-offs, public expenditure programmes, and taxation principles. It combines theoretical models with empirical evidence. Objectives and instruments of public policies are demonstrated with examples of health care, pensions, education, housing, crime control, and welfare programmes. General principles of cost-benefit analysis are introduced. The course ends in discussion of increasing government size, its underlying roots, and possible solutions for public spending reduction.