The schedule reviews material that has been covered in previous classes and topics to be addressed in the upcoming lectures.
The schedule will be revised periodically.
Month |
Day |
|
Coverage |
|
August |
26 |
Tuesday |
First Class--introduction and procedural details |
|
August |
28 |
Thursday |
What is public finance and how does it relate to economics in general? (Ch. 1-2, Ch.3--pp. 45-48 only and Appendix pp. 558-560) |
|
September |
2 |
Tuesday |
The role of the market and the role of government and the growth of government (Ch. 1-2, Ch.3--pp. 46-50 only and Appendix pp. 563-565) Big Government Is Bigger Than You Think and The "True" Size of Government--2003) |
|
September |
4 |
Thursday |
The role of the market and the role of government; Begin private and public goods (Ch. 4) |
|
September |
9 |
Tuesday |
Private and public goods: efficiency and equilibrium (Ch. 4) Fund Raising in Vermont |
|
September |
11 |
Thursday |
Public goods continue. (Ch. 4) Sharing the Cost of Defense Spending, |
|
September |
16 |
Tuesday |
Begin externalities (Ch. 5) Coase: Nobel Prize Citation, Road Pricing in Stockholm, Congestion Pricing in London, Market-Based Approaches to Environmental Policy, Quick Facts on Cap-and-Trade Policies to Reduce Carbon Emissions |
|
September |
18 |
Thursday |
Complete externalities. Begin public choice (Ch. 6) Pliny, Voting and Impeachment, James Buchanan: Nobel Prize Citation, and Amartya Sen: Nobel Prize Citation |
|
September |
23 |
Tuesday |
Public choice. |
|
September |
25 |
Thursday |
No Class—Dismissed for extra time for out-of-class exams |
|
September |
30 |
Tuesday |
Complete public choice, begin benefit-cost analysis (Ch. 8) |
| October | 1 | Wednesday | FIRST EXAMINATION Coverage: Chapters 1-6 (Ch.3--pp. 45-48 only) &Appendix (pp. 563-565) The exam will be in 134 Temple Buell Auditorium from 7:00-9:00 PM. |
|
October |
2 |
Thursday |
Complete benefit-cost analysis (Ch. 8), begin Redistribution (Ch. 12 ) Class Action: The Causes and Consequence of Increasing U. S. Inequality, Economic Inequality in the United States |
|
October |
7 |
Tuesday |
Redistribution continues, programs for the poor (Ch.13) How Are We Doing? |
|
October |
9 |
Thursday |
Redistribution (Ch. 13) |
| October |
14 |
Tuesday |
Conclude redistribution, education (Ch. 7) and health care (Chs. 9-10) Asymmetric Information and Insurance Markets. |
|
October |
16 |
Thursday |
Health care continues. |
|
October |
21 |
Tuesday |
Social security (Ch. 11) Rates of Return from Social Security, Has Social Security Ever Been Raided-Interview with Robert Reischauer |
|
October |
23 |
Thursday |
Conclude social security Report of Presidential Social Security Commission, Perspectives from the President’s Commission on Social Security Reform, Invest social security, but don’t privatize--Modigliani and Can The Stock Market Save Social Security? , Brookings Panel, Social Security Reform Forum--Audio and VisualBegin taxation (Chs. 14-16) |
| October |
28 |
Tuesday |
No Class—Dismissed for extra time for out-of-class exams |
|
October |
30 |
Thursday |
Continue taxation (Chs. 14- 16) |
| November |
4 |
Tuesday |
Continue introduction to taxation On-line video presentation-Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: Giertz |
| November | 5 |
Wednesday
|
SECOND EXAMINATION Coverage: Chapters 7-13. The exam will be in 134 Temple Buell Auditorium from 7:00-9:00 PM. |
|
November |
6 |
Thursday |
Conclude introduction to taxation Begin individual income tax (Ch. 17-18) |
|
November |
11 |
Tuesday |
Individual income tax (Ch. 17-18) and supplementary on reserve: Slemrod and Bakija, and If Americans Really Understood the Income Tax , Income Tax Burdens by Income. |
|
November |
13 |
Thursday |
Individual income tax First Income Tax Return; Economic Report of President--Tax Chapter 2006 and Taxes in the 1940s |
| November |
18 |
Tuesday |
Conclude income tax. Corporate and business taxation (Ch. 19) |
|
November |
20 |
Thursday |
No Class—Dismissed for extra time for out-of-class exams |
| November |
25 |
Tuesday |
No Class—Thanksgiving Vacation |
|
November |
27 |
Thursday |
No Class—Thanksgiving Vacation |
| December |
2 |
Tuesday |
Conclude corporate and business taxation, begin consumption taxes (Ch. 21) |
|
December |
4 |
Thursday |
Consumption taxes including expenditure taxes and general sales taxes (Ch. 21) |
| December |
9 |
Tuesday |
Last Class Property taxes and death and gift taxes (Ch. 21 and Ch. 22-pp. 521-528) |
| December | ? | ? | Special Study Session: |
|
December |
15 |
Monday |
FINAL EXAMINATION Coverage: Chapters 14-19 and 21 and 22 (pp. 521-528). The exam will be held from 8:300-10:30 AM, in the regular classroom. Paper due for graduate students. |