ESF:DXV_PUEC Public economics - Course Information
DXV_PUEC Public economics
Faculty of Economics and AdministrationSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/24/0. 12 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- doc. JUDr. Ivan Malý, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. Ing. Juraj Nemec, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. Mgr. Jiří Špalek, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. Ing. Juraj Nemec, CSc.
Department of Public Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Supplier department: Department of Public Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration - Prerequisites
- Elementary knowledge of the principles of the economic theory.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 26 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students understand deeper a wide scale of approaches to key Public Economics concepts and questions. The students must fully and in depth understand public economics issues connected with the topic and objectives of their doctoral theses.
- Learning outcomes
- After finishing this course the student will have capacity:
- to understand different approaches on the socio-economic role of the state in modern society;
- to know and to understand all relevant modern public economics literature on the topic of dissertation. - Syllabus
- 1. Introduction. Compulsion and non-profitness. Economic role of the Government. Governance. Bureaucracy. Evaluation of all these core aspects from the point of view of different economic theories.
- 2. Efficiency in the Public Sector. Public private mix.
- 3. Redistribution systems theory - prospective development of the Game theory.
- 4. Second best - concept, approaches. Setting goals and preferences. Public Interest.
- 5. Modern approaches to the public sector.
- Literature
- required literature
- BAILEY, J. S. Public Sector Economics. Second Edition. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 450 p. ISBN 0-333-92953-5.
- BUCHANAN, James M. Public finance in democratic process : fiscal institutions and individual choice. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999, xvi, 310. ISBN 0865972206. info
- recommended literature
- VON MISES, L.: Bureaucracy. Libertarian Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0910884341
- not specified
- ROTHBARD, Murray N.: Man, Economy, and State. Ludwig Von Mises Inst. 1 edition (June 15, 1993). ISBN: 978-0945466321
- CHAUDHURI, Ananish. Nudged into lockdown? : behavioral economics, uncertainty and covid-19. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2022, xii, 240. ISBN 9781802205664. info
- STIGLITZ, Joseph E. and Jay K. ROSENGARD. Economics of the public sector. Fourth edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015, xxxii, 923. ISBN 9780393925227. info
- BROWN, C. V. and P. M. JACKSON. Public sector economics. 4th editon. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990, xv, 622. ISBN 0631162089. info
- Teaching methods
- Active participation is required: class discussions, argumentations exercises,extensive readings, e.t.c. Topics for essays are selected according their relevance from the point of view of progranmme and the contents of PhD theses.
- Assessment methods
- Written examination - essay. A set of self made abstracts from study literature is required.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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