Public Economics I
14.471 · Economics · Graduate · Fall 2012
Prof. James Poterba, Prof. Iván Werning
This course covers theory and evidence on government taxation policy. Topics include tax incidence, optimal tax theory, the effect of taxation on labor supply and savings, taxation and corporate behavior, and tax expenditure policy.
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Prof. James Poterba, Prof. Iván Werning. 14.471 Public Economics I. Fall 2012. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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