Public Economics
Public Economics is primarily concerned with the role of government in a market economy. Relationships between theory and application as well as between public economics and political systems will be emphasized, with analytical and empirical approaches to such issues as:
- Theory of public goods
- Tax incidence
- Public choice
- Models of urban economics
- Design of fiscal systems
- Income redistribution
- Fiscal federalism
- Cost-benefit analysis
Required Course Work
Two courses from the following list are required:
Economics 81500, Special Topics in Macroeconomics; Economics of the Welfare State
Economics 85100, Public Finance I (recommended as the foundational course in this field )
Economics 85200, Public Finance II
Economics 85600, Inequality, Economic Opportunity, & Public Policy
Economics 88100, Urban Economics I
Faculty
Miles Corak
Professor
- Economics
Professor
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Prabal De
Professor
- Economics
Lisa George
Associate Professor
- Economics
Timothy J. Goodspeed
Professor
- Economics
Guillaume Haeringer
Associate Professor
- Economics
Sanders Korenman
Professor
- Economics
Paul Krugman
Distinguished Professor
- Economics
Distinguished Scholar
- Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Chanoch Shreiber
Professor
- Economics
Faculty members of the Ph.D. Programs in Philosophy and Political Science may also have relevant interests.
