EE 490 Seminar in Public Choice Economics
August 10 Notes Week I: Public Choice, and the Virginia School of Economics
Buchanan: "Public Choice: The Origins and Development of a Research Program
August 18, 20 Notes Week II: Pigovian Taxes, PD Games, Externalities, the Coase Theorum
August 25, 27 Notes Week III: the public good "eye", Buchannen/Tullok model
Sept 1, 3 Notes Week IV: The Median Vote Model Part 1
Sept 8, 10 Notes Week V: The Median Voter Model Part 2
Sept 15, 17 Notes Week VI: Extensions --Money, Incumbency, Stochastic Voting
Sept 22, 24 Notes Week VII: The Rational Voter, the Expressive Voter
September 29, Midterm
Oct 6, 8 Notes Week VIII Rent Seeking
Oct 13, 15 Notes Week IX Rent Seeking, Distributive Coalitions
Oct 20, 22 Notes Week X The Niskannen Buerocracy
Oct 27, 29 Notes Week XI Dictatorship
Nov 3, 5 Notes Week XII Social Welfare Functions
Nov 10, 12 Notes Week XIII The Growth of Government, Leviathan
Nov 17, 19 Notes Week XIV The political buisness cycle
Nov 24, 26 Notes Week XV Constitutional Economics
Dec 1, Review for Final Exam
Dec 13, Midterm Exam
Last Modified; August 31, 2010