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Public Finance and Public Policy
Jonathan Gruber
- PART I Introduction and Background
- 1 Why Study Public Finance?
- 2 Theoretical Tools of Public Finance
- Competitive Market - Market Forces module
- Competitive Market - Efficiency module (coming soon!)
- 3 Empirical Tools of Public Finance
- 4 Budget Analysis and Deficit Financing
- Interest Rates + Inflation
- PART II Externalities and Public Goods
- 5 Externalities: Problems and Solutions
- Externalities (Judge me not)
- Externalities w/ Policy Interventions
- 6 Externalities in Action: Environmental and Health Externalities
- 7 Public Goods
- Public Goods: Linear
- Public Goods: Discrete
- Public Goods: Punishments & Rewards
- 8 Cost-Benefit Analysis
- 9 Political Economy
- Two-Candidate Election
- Voter Paradox (1 candidate)
- Voter Paradox (2 candidates)
- Lobbying: All-pay auction
- 10 State and Local Government Expenditures
- 11 Education
- PART III Social Insurance and Redistribution
- 12 Social Insurance: The New Function of Government
- Insurance Market
- Adverse Selection: Market for Lemons
- 13 Social Security
- 14 Unemployment Insurance, Disability Insurance, and Workers’ Compensation
- 15 Health Insurance I: Health Economics and Private Health Insurance
- 16 Health Insurance II: Medicare, Medicaid, and Health Care Reform
- 17 Income Distribution and Welfare Programs
- PART IV Taxation in Theory and Practice
- 18 Taxation: How It Works and What It Means
- 19 The Equity Implications of Taxation: Tax Incidence
- Competitive Market: Taxes Module
- 20 Tax Inefficiencies and Their Implications for Optimal Taxation
- 21 Taxes on Labor Supply
- 22 Taxes on Savings
- 23 Taxes on Risk Taking and Wealth
- 24 Taxation of Business Income
- 25 Fundamental Tax Reform and Consumption Taxation