《公共经济学(双语)》课程教学大纲)
课程代码:12C0074
英文名称:Public Economics(Bilingual)
课程性质:专业主干课
前置课程:西方经济学、财政学、大学英语
后置课程:财税动态专题
学分:3学分
课时:51课时
课程负责人:
主讲教师:
考核方式:考试
成绩构成:平时成绩30%,期末成绩70%
使用教材:Harvey S.Ron:Public Finance,New York:McGraw-Hill,2015(节选)
课程概述:
本课程为财政学专业的专业主干课,本大纲适用于财政学专业学生。
当前,我国的公共财政体制正在进一步地发展和完善,在这个过程中,充分了解和有效借鉴西方市场经济国家财政领域的基础理论和实践状况十分必要。而在财政学专业课程体系中设置相应课程,正体现出与这一现实要求的协调一致。本课程主要内容包括:财政学的定义及其主要思想;公共品的定义及其提供等问题;外部性的本质及其影响和对策;公共选择的各种机制的讨论与评估;赤字融资及其相关问题等。
教学目的:
本课程的教学目的在于使学生在已有知识基础上,重点掌握西方财政学体系中的基本理论观点,也可以了解到西方国家(主要是美国)财政运行的一般情况;使学生能够在不同的具体现实条件中思考运用所学到的相应观点和知识;同时,使学生掌握财政学方面术语的英语表达方式。梦想的力量
教学方法:
本课程作为一门双语教学课程,使用英文教材,其课堂教学过程中内容讲解部分采用中英文结合方式,英语使用程度需参考学生整体接受程度。为强化相关理论知识及其实践运用,本课程根据教学内容进程及其侧重点设置了讨论课时段。同时,本课程大量借助多媒体手段使讲解更加清楚。
各章教学要求及教学要点
Chapter1Introduction
课时分配:3课时
教学要求:
通过本章的学习使学生掌握财政学的内涵及其主要功能,并以此为基础把握两种主要的财政思想。本章重点为财政学的基本涵义。
教学内容:
1.1Introduction of public finance
1.2Public finance and ideology
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2.Mechanistic view of government
思考题:
1.How is public finance defined?
2.What are the ideological views concerning the relationship between the individual and the state?
Chapter2Public Goods
课时分配:12课时
教学要求:
通过本章学习使学生掌握公共品的界定和内涵,并以此为基础把握公共品的有效提供及其生产方面的基本观点。本章重点为公共品的定义及其供给的局部均衡模型。本章难点为非排他性、公共提供与公共生产。
教学内容:
2.1Public Goods Defined
1.Public goods are neither excludable nor rival.
2.Public goods are characterized by non-rivalry and non-excludability in consumption.
3.Some important aspects of public goods:
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2.2Efficient Provision of Public Goods
1.Efficient provision of public goods
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2.“horizontal summation”and“vertical summation”
3.The free rider problem
4.Cost-benefit analysis
2.3About privatization
1.Privatization
2.Public or private production of public goods
investigation思考题:
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2.Why does the free-rider problem induce the government to provide public goods?
3.How should the government decide whether to provide a public good?
4.What is the right mix of public and private provision for public goods?
Chapter3Externalities
课时分配:15课时
教学要求:
通过本章学习使学生在掌握外部性性质和特征的基础上,把握在应对外部性(主要是负外部性,如污染)方面市场和政府的对策。本章重点和难点为外部性的定义及其特征、科斯定理、对外部性的公共对策。
教学内容:
3.1The nature of externalities
1.Externality
2.The nature of externalities
3.The characteristics of externalities
4.The effect of externalities
3.2Private Solutions to Externalities
1.Bargaining and the Coa Theorem
2.Mergers
3.Social conventions
3.3Public Policies toward Externalitiesalley
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2.Subsidies
3.Tradable Pollution Permits(Creating a Market)
4.Regulation
思考题:
1.What is an externality?What are the nature and the characteristics of externalities?
2.What is the Coa Theorem?How to understand and apply it?
3.What are the public policies toward externalities?How to apply them?What are the differences between them?
Chapter4Political Economy
课时分配:12课时
教学要求:
通过本章学习使学生把握在直接民主制和代议民主制下公共支出如何被决定及其存在的问题,
并进一步了解政府增长的原因及其应对办法。本章重点为直接民主制、代议民主制、政府增长的解释与控制。本章难点为投票悖论、阿罗不可能定理。
教学内容:
4.1Direct Democracy
1.Unanimity Rules
2.Majority Voting Rules
3.Logrolling
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4.2Reprentative Democracy
1.Elected Politicians
2.Public Employees
3.Special interests
4.Other Actors
4.3Explaining Government Growth
1.The growth of government has been rapid by any measure.
2.Proposals to control the growth in government include:
思考题:
1.What would lead to the voting paradox?What would be the effect of logrolling?
2.How could Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem be understood?
3.What do Median voter theorem for elections and Niskanen’s model of bureaucracy implicate?What are the special interests?
4.How can the growth in government be explained and controlled?
Chapter5Social Security
课时分配:9课时
教学要求:
通过本章学习使学生社会保障的基本概念,并进一步把握社会保障的系列观点尤其是医疗保险的特点。本章重点为社会保障的经济效应。本章难点为逆向选择。
教学内容:
5.1Why have social curity?
1.Consumption smoothing and the annuity market
2.Adver lection and the annuity market
3.Other justifications
5.2Structure of social curity
1.Basic components
2.Distributional issues
3.The trust fund
5.3Effects of social curity on economic behavior
1.Saving behavior
2.Retirement decisions
3.Implications
5.4government and the market for health care
1.Private health insurance
2.Medicare and Medicaid
思考题:
1.Why have social curity?
2.what is the structure of social curity?
3.What influence of social curity on economic behavior?