EE 490 Seminar in Public Choice Economics

EE 490 Syllabus -- Fall 2008

EE 490 Syllabus -- Fall 2009

EE 490 Syllabus -- Fall 2010

 

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