ECON 4260 - [Public Finance: The Microeconomics of Government]

(SSC-AS)

Fall. Not offered: 2024-2025. Next offered: 2025-2026. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: ECON 1110, ECON 1120 and ECON 3030, or equivalents, and one semester of calculus.

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Analyzes the role of government in a free market economy. Topics include public goods, market failures, allocation mechanisms, optimal taxation, effects of taxation, and benefit-cost analysis. Current topics of an applied nature vary from semester to semester.