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Foundations of Policy-Making
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Foundations of Policy-Making
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Academic year 2013/2014
- Course ID
- ECO0266
- Teacher
- Prof. Enrico Colombatto (Titolare del corso)
- Year
- 2° anno
- Teaching period
- Primo semestre
- Type
- Di base
- Credits/Recognition
- 9
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- SECS-P/02 - politica economica
- Delivery
- Tradizionale
- Language
- Inglese
- Attendance
- Facoltativa
- Type of examination
- Scritto
- Examination methods
- L'esame è esclusivamente scritto (90 minuti)
- Prerequisites
- Padronanza della microeconomia, della macroeconomia e della storia del pensiero economico.
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
Apprendere i fondamenti della politica economica
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Results of learning outcomes
Conoscenza dei fondamenti della politica economica
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Learning assessment methods
Esame scritto
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Support activities
Lavagna
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Program
1. Introduction to policy-making
2. The foundations of government intervention
3. Competition, regulation, rent-seeking
4. Externalities, public goods, government failures
5. The economics of transaction costs and the Law and Economics approach
6. Topics in the economics of growth and developmentSuggested readings and bibliography
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Enrico Colombatto, Markets, Morals and Policy-Making, Routledge (paperback edition)
A. Alchian, "Uncertainty, Evolution and Economic Theory", Journal of Political Economy, 3 June 1950, pp. 211- 221.
M. Friedman, "The Methodology of Positive Economics", in M. Friedman, Essays in Positive Economics, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953, pp. 3-43.
Holcombe, Randall G., "Government: unnecessary but inevitable", The Independent Review, VIII (3), Winter 2004, pp. 325-342.
M. Rothbard, "Law, property rights, and air pollution", Cato Journal, 2 (1), Spring 1982, pp. 55-99.
R. Coase, "The problem of social cost", Journal of Law and Economics, 3, Ottobre 1960, pp.1-44.
M. Katz, H. Rosen, Microeconomics, McGraw Hill, 1997.
R. Holcombe, "Entrepreneurship and economic growth", Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 1, 2, summer 1998, 45-62.
A. Maddison, "Measuring and interpreting world economic performance 1500-2001", Review of Income and Wealth, 51(1), March 2005, pp. 1-35.
M. Olson, "Big bills left on the sidewalk: why some nations are rich, and others poor", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10, 2, Spring 1996, pp. 3-24.- Oggetto:
