Public Finance

Economics 378

Fall 2007

 

On-Line Grade Book As of 10/31

Book Discussion  

Practice Problem Answers

Course Syllabus

HW 1 - Due @4:30 Tuesday Sept. 11

HW 2 - Due @ 4:00 on Friday Sept. 21

HW 3 - Page 196-97 2,3,7,11 Due @4:00 P.M. on Friday Sept. 28 (will be available to be picked up after noon on Monday Oct. 1)

HW 4 - Due at beginning of class Tuesday Oct. 16

HW 5 - Due at beginning of class Tuesday Oct. 23

HW 6 - Page 543 1 and 7.  Due at beginning of class on Tuesday Nov. 13.

HW 7   Due by 3:10 on Wed Dec. 12

(1) Pg 573, # 4 AND calculate Dead Weight Loss    (2) Pg 633 # 7     (3) Pg. 661 # 1     (4) Pg. 722 # 4  

Additional Readings (As assigned)

   Please read Six Market Failures  from Economics of the Public Sector by Joseph Stiglitz 

   Read for Sept. 20 Economic Incentives vs. Command and Control by Harrington and Morgenstern

   Read for Sept. 20 One Answer to Global Warming: A New Tax by Greg Mankiw

   Read for Sept. 25The Role of Government in a Free Society by Milton Friedman

   Read for Sept. 25 Indiana Toll Road  by Joe Mysak

   Read for Oct. 9

        Robert Samuelson   Importing Poverty

        Inequality in America   from The Economist

        Poverty Yardstick Warped  from the Columbus Dispatch.  Note: Bob Michael, the economist referred to in the article is an OWU alum and has guest lectured in Public Finance on occasion.

Do not read these yet.

  Read for Oct. 31 Leonhardt I   and Leonhardt II

  Read by the Final Exam  Milton Friedman from the Economist

 

 

 

    The Health Care Crisis by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells (Note:  See Rosen page 233-35 for background on single payer.)

    Filling in the Tax Gap by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt

 

Past Exams

    1st Exam Fa2006      2nd Exam Fa2006      Final Exam Fa2006

    1st Exam Sp2006       2nd Exam Sp2006     Final Exam Sp2006

    1st Exam 2005           2nd Exam 2005          Final Exam 2005