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Year 3 Economics.
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Dr N Norman.
Prerequisite: 316-201 Intermediate Macro-economics and 316-202 Intermediate Micro-economics.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- extend their knowledge of public finance via the independent study of books and articles dealing with theory and policy in this area and by taking advanced subjects dealing with these matters;
- judge the usefulness and the limitations of existing theory in the area of public finance;
- critically evaluate contemporary policy debates in the public finance with reference to public finance theory.
Content:
The economics of government budgets and budgetary policy; public finance in relation to income distribution, stability, resource allocation and growth; government revenue and the theory of taxation; taxation reform; the national debt; government expenditure; problems of federal finance.
Assessment:
A 2-hour examination (80 per cent) and class assignments totalling approximately 2,000 words (20 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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