PUBLIC SECTOR
ECONOMICS I AND II. YEAR 2017-18
CONTENT 1st-2nd SEMESTER
TEACHERS:
AMADEO FUENMAYOR and MARÍA ÁNGELES TORTOSA
PART I
UNIT 1, 2 and 3:
Links to public budgets:
European
Union Budget
UNIT 4: Public sector failures.
Politicians, citizens and civil
servants
*MATERIALS for practical classes:
Pressure groups: List
of Australian Pressure Groups
Age
concern Anmesty
International International
transparency
Data: Spanish
Political Barometer and CIS European Social Survey
Education Net
Recommended articles: Theory
of rational ignorance Economics of Bureaucracy
Political
action Downs
READINGS:
Sandel,
M. What money can't buy. London: Pinguin
Books, 2012.
Cohen,
D. Homo economicus. The lost prophet of
modern times. Wiley. 2014
Akerlof,
G.A. NAD sHILLER, r.j. Phishing for
phools: The economics of manipulation and
deception. Princeton University Press,
2015
LINKS:
The
New York Times Politics page Krugman's Web
The
Economist
-world politics Project Syndicate
J. Kwak and
Jonhson, S. Blog in Economics, Law and Public policy Revista española de
ciencia política The Global Policy
Journal
Instituto
Nacional de Administración Pública
Center for research on
direct democracy-Zurich Harvard Kennedy
School
EU
transparency register
VIDEOS AND MOVIES:
Video
Morin, e. and "The way"
Video
C. Felber about Commom Welfare Economy
M.
Sandel and the lost art of
democratic debate
MOVIE:
Lincoln Invictus
La
Dama de Hierro
Yes-minister,
TV serie The
Ides of March'
UNIT 5: Public economic
evaluation and regulation
*MATERIALS
for practical classes:
READINGS:
STIGLITZ, J. Freefall:
America, free markets, and the sinking of the world
economy. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2010.
Chapter 7.
LINKS:
The happy planet index
Action for happiness
Professor
Layard, R. Web page of Professor
Skidelsky, R.
UNIT
6: Pensions systems
*MATERIALS for practical classes: DEMOS
HELSINKI THINK TANK AND BASIC INCOME
EXPERIMENT
LINKS:
Basic
income Envejecimiento
en red-CSIC-IMSERSO
N. Barr web page
Blog
Julio Pérez Díaz- Ageing of population
Esther
Duflo y Poor
economics
PART II :
Public revenues - Taxes
Blogs
about taxation: Mankiw's
Blog
Blog
RES pública
LINKS:
Gruber
Public Finance Handbook
OCDE and taxes
Fiscal
Foro. IEB (Institut Economia Barcelona)
Gestha
Instituto
de Estudios Fiscales en España
Journals
about taxation:
Public
economics electronic journals
Fiscal
Studies Journal
Statistics: Agencia
Estatal Tributaria
Optimal
taxation:
LINKS
MIRRLEES REPORT:
Institute for Fiscal Studies in UK
Mirrlees
report- Vol 1 Mirrless
report- Vol 2
Mirrlees
Report -Journal of Fiscal Studies Seminar
in Fundación Areces about Mirrlees report
LINKS
SPANISH TAX
REFOR:
Spanish Tax
Reform Report 2014 FEDEA
y reforma fiscal