Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2009-2010
ECON 484 - PUBLIC FINANCE EXPENDITURE
Long Title: PUBLIC FINANCE EXPENDITURE
Department: Economics
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group II
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): ECON 370
Description: Public goods theory including non-rival and congestible public facilities, theory of local public goods including the economics of education. The problem of preference revelation and the fundamentals of benefit-cost analysis. Analysis of the effects of social security, old age retirement, and the role of government in financing healthcare - Medicare and Medicaid.