Economics of the Public Sector Public Economics or Public Finance

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Economics of the Public Sector(Public
Economics orPublic Finance)
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• http//nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laure
  ates/2001/stiglitz-autobio.html

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• INTRODUCTION
• 1. The public sector in a mixed economy
• FUNDAMENTALS OF WELFARE ECONOMICS
• 2. Market efficiency
• 3. Market failure
• 4. Efficiency and equity

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• PUBLIC EXPENDITURE THEORY
• 5. Public goods and publicly provided
  private goods
• 6. Public choice
• 7. Public production and bureaucracy
• 8. Externalities and the environment
• EXPENDITURE PROGRAMS
• 9. The analysis of expenditure policy
• 10. Cost-benefit analysis
• 11. Health care
• 12. Social insurance
• Welfare programs and the redistribution of income
• Education

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• TAXATION THEORY
• 15. Introduction to taxation
• 16. Tax incidence
• 17. Taxation and economic efficiency
• 18. Optimal taxation
• 19. Taxation of capital
• TAXATION IN POLAND
• FURTHER ISSUES
• 20. Deficit finance
• 21. Fiscal federalism

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• Joseph E. Stiglitz, Economics of the Public
  Sector, NORTON, 3rd ed.
• C.V. Brown P.M. Jackson, Public Sector
  Economics, Blacwell
• Harvey S. Rosen, Public Finance, IRWIN
• (Anthony B. Atkinson, Joseph E. Stiglitz,
  Lectures on Public Economics, McGraw-Hill)