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FOUNDATIONS OF POLICY MAKING
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Foundations of Policy-Making
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Academic year 2016/2017
- Course ID
- ECO0416
- Teacher
- Prof. Enrico Colombatto (Titolare del corso)
- Year
- 2° anno
- Teaching period
- Primo semestre
- Type
- Caratterizzante
- Credits/Recognition
- 9
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- SECS-P/02 - politica economica
- Delivery
- Tradizionale
- Language
- Inglese
- Attendance
- Facoltativa
- Type of examination
- Scritto
- 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
The course aims at developing the methodological tools required to analyze policy-making, with particular emphasis on selected interdisciplinary features. Each section of the course, therefore, will explore the nature, legitimacy and outcomes of government intervention, as well as the peculiarities of the policy tools applied most frequently.
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Results of learning outcomes
Si richiede che gli studenti assimilino le nozioni apprese durante il corso.
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Course delivery
Lezioni frontali tradizionali
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Learning assessment methods
L'esame è esclusivamente scritto (domande aperte).
Nel corso degli appelli della sessione invernale (dicembre 2015/febbraio 2016) gli studenti hanno la possibilità di sostenere l'esame sul programma effettivamente svolto in aula.
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Support activities
Nessuna
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Program
1. Introduction to policy-making2. The foundations of government intervention3. Competition, regulation, rent-seeking4. Externalities, public goods, government failures5. The economics of transaction costs and the Law & Economicsapproach6. Topics in the economics of growth and developmentSuggested readings and bibliography
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All the references mentioned below are "required readings"
Main reference:
E. Colombatto, Markets, Morals and Policy-Making, London and New York: Routledge, 2011 (hardback), 2013 (paperback).
Further references
A. Alchian, “Uncertainty, Evolution and Economic Theory”, Journal of Political Economy, 3 June 1950, pp. 211-221.
A. Sen, The Idea of Justice, London: Penguin Books 2010 [Introduction (an approach to justice) and Chapter 2 (Rawls and beyond)].
Huemer, Michael, The Problem of Political Authority, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 [chapters 2 (pp. 20-35) and 3 (pp. 36-58]
Higgs, Robert., “Eighteen problematic propositions in the analysis of the growth of government”, The Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 5 (1), 1991, pp. 3-40.
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.
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.
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Class schedule
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