ECON 410: Public Choice
Syllabus
Lecture Outlines
- Week 1: Public Goods, Externalities, and Comparative Institutions
- Week 2: The Logic of Collective Action
- Week 3: The Median Voter Model
- Week 4: Rational Ignorance and the "Miracle of Aggregation"
- Week 5: Efficiency and Bargaining
- Week 6: Basics of Public Opinion and Voter Motivation
- Week 7: Empirical Accuracy of the Median Voter Model
- Week 8: Division of Powers, Special Interests, and Rent-Seeking
- Week 9: Political Competition and Political Collusion
- Weeks 10-11: Wittman's Myth of Democratic Failure
- Wees 12: Expressive Voting
- Week 13: Systematic Bias Versus the Miracle of Aggregation
- Weeks 14-15: Democracy, Dictatorship, and Markets