Description

The lecture starts on Monday, September 6, 2010

The course is intended for graduate students. It focuses on the state’s role in
providing public goods and on the optimal use of taxes. We will mainly take a
normative perspective, i.e., we ask what an ideal state would do in order to achieve
allocative and distributive objectives. However, we will occasionally contrast the
results from this normative approach with the predictions of political economics and
discuss recent developments in the literature.

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