Economics of Policy Issues
The module outline is as follows:
- Voting – Median Voter, Majority Voting, Political Competition, Voting on Redistribution
- Social Justice – Insurance, Moral Hazard and Social Justice without Government
- Entitlements – Attributes and Consequences, Old Age, Health Care
- Choice of Taxation – Optimal Taxation, Capital and Other Taxes and Fiscal Federalism
- The Growth of Government and Competing Views on the Need for Government.