深圳大学课程教学大纲
课程编号: 22021102 课程名称:公共经济学(英文版) 开课院系: 经济学院 制订(修订)人: 杨燕风 审核人: 批准人：
2009年 2 月26日制(修)订
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课程名称: 公共经济学（英文版） 英文名称: Public Economics
总 学 时: 57 其中:实验（实践）课 0 学时 学 分: 3
先修课程: Microeconomics
教 材: Stiglitz, Joseph W. (1988) ECONOMICS OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR (2nd Ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 725pp.
参考教材: [美]斯蒂格利茨 著, 郭庆旺 等译. (2005) 公共部门经济学(第三版). 北京:人民大学出版社. 739pp.
[加]利奇(Leach J.) 著 (2005) 公共经济学教程(英文版) (A Course in Public Economics). 上海: 上海财经大学出
版社. 413pp.
[加]利奇(Leach J.) 著, 孔晏, 朱萍 译. (2005) 公共经济学教程.
上海: 上海财经大学出版社. 374pp.
授课对象: 经济学 专业 二 年级
课程性质: □综合必修 ?专业必修 □专业选修 □全校公选 教学目标:The target of this course is to give the students an introduction
to the essential models and their elemental applications in public economics. The course participants are supposed to achieve the following objectives: understanding of the central concepts and models of modern public economics; ability to identify and analyze some basic policy problems in this field.
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课程简介: The course of Public Economics is to introduce the role of
government in the economy and government’s effect on the economy both positively and normatively. It aims to provide an understanding of why and how government behaves as it does, how its behavior influences the behavior of private firms and households, and what the welfare effects of such changes in behavior are. In specific, the course discuses on the one hand the governmental action against market failures such as the failure of competition, public goods, externalities, incomplete markets, and asymmetric information, and on the other hand the governmental intervention towards income distribution as well as consumption even without market failure for the purpose of social equity and merits. The key issues are welfare economics, public choice, and the economic analysis of government effects including government failures. The latter one is also the most difficult issue in the course due to its various economic models.
Public economics, as a major branch of modern economics, is an important compulsory course for advanced undergraduate students in economics specialty. This course, due to its bilingual character, is an introductory course for the branch. Since the bilingual courses are rare in the economics specialty of our university, it is quite important for the students to undertake the
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