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Week
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Topics
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Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques
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Study Materials
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1. Week
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Introduction: The scope of the public economics and different views about state intervention
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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2. Week
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Welfare Economics and Public Economics: Social Welfare, Pigou Optimum and Pareto Optimum
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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3. Week
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Welfare Economics and Public Economics: Pareto efficiency and Utility Possibility Frontier, Kaldor-Hicks compensation principle, Social welfare function and Maximizing the social welfare:Optimum optimorum
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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4. Week
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Market Failures as a Rationale of Government Activity: Failure of Competition and Externalities
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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5. Week
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Market Failures as a Rationale of Government Activity: Public Goods and Incomplete Markets
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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6. Week
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Market Failures as a Rationale of Government Activity: Information failures; Unemployment, Inflation, and disequilibrium; redistribution and merit goods
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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7. Week
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Public Choice: The problem of aggregating preferences,Unanimity voting, Majority voting and voting paradox, Arrow’s impossibility theorem
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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8. Week
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Public Choice: Single peaked preferences,Median voter theory, Political participation and Interest groups, Log-rolling
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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9. Week
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Public Choice: Downs’ economic theory of democracy, Political Business Cycles, The Bureaucracy, Rent-seeking
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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10. Week
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The Welfare State: Redistribution of income
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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11. Week
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The Welfare State: Poverty alleviation
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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12. Week
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The Welfare State: Education and Health
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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13. Week
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Globalization and the changing structure of the public sector
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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14. Week
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Liberalization, Regulation- deregulation, Public Enterprises and privatization
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
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Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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