Public Finance and Public Policy

A sepia toned photograph of United States currency.

Photograph of U.S. currency. (Image courtesy of Daniel Bersak.)

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MIT Course Number

14.41

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Fall 2010

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

Explores the role of government in the economy, applying tools of basic microeconomics to answer important policy questions such as government response to global warming, school choice by K-12 students, Social Security versus private retirement savings accounts, government versus private health insurance, setting income tax rates for individuals and corporations.

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Jonathan Gruber. 14.41 Public Finance and Public Policy. Fall 2010. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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