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课程名称：经济增长与分配正义第一部分 - 国家角色 课程概述：如果您关心21世纪经济和社会中的重要问题，如分配正义——即收入或财富的不平等及其与经济增长的关联，那么本课程适合您。您将获得的知识将改变您对世界的看法。 《经济增长与分配正义 - 国家角色》是一个两部分课程的第一部分，包括以下四节讲座： 1. 我们需要国家做什么？ 2. 效率与分配正义之间的关系 3. 不同伦理理论的影响展示 4. 分配正义：测量及其影响 完成第一部分后，建议您注册第二部分《经济增长与分配正义 - 最大化社会福利》。学习两部分课程将使您对经济增长与分配正义有更全面的理解。 本课程基于国家的角色是最大化居民幸福的基本理念，通过9节引人入胜的课时，运用简单的语言和解码专业术语，探讨许多直觉和非直觉的真理。课程使用美国和欧洲的案例探讨，但并不局限于特定地区的政策，适用于全球所有国家。 课程涉及重要概念的核心，如效率与公平、不平等与贫困、国内生产总值、逃税与税收规划；展示诺贝尔奖得主詹姆斯·米尔斯的工作，倡导整合税收与政府支出以最大化社会福利的连贯系统；并从经济角度揭示一系列高关注度的问题： - 气候变化：大气与海洋作为公共物品，如何利用智能（Pigovian）税收来应对对地球的迅速威胁； - 技术作为经济增长的引擎； - 征税富人：如何缓解日益严重的不平等问题？我们是否应该对资本征收全球税？ 课程还包括与法律和经济领域重要人物的访谈，如哈佛大学的Elhanan Helpman，NYU的Dan Shaviro，以及芝加哥大学和NYU的Richard Epstein。 成功完成课程后，您将能够： - 更好地理解媒体上呈现的经济问题 - 对提出的社会经济政策的优缺点形成知情的看法 - 定义和测量不平等及贫困 - 定义不平等（收入、财富）与经济增长之间的联系 - 解释经济增长的基础 - 设计税收与转移系统，以最大化个人幸福 这些将使您更好地理解周围政策的发展，并作为一个有意识的公民在其发展中扮演更大、更知情的角色。 如需获取学术学分，您需在校园内成功通过学术考试。有关注册学术考试的信息，请访问：https://tauonline.tau.ac.il/registration 此外，您还可以使用您在课程中获得的成绩申请某些学位。了解更多信息，请访问：https://go.tau.ac.il/b.a/mooc-acceptance 有意在课堂上教授本课程的教师可探索我们的学术高中项目：https://tauonline.tau.ac.il/online-highschool 请注意，本课程将于2022年3月1日至2022年8月31日暂时关闭注册。在此期间，课程将不会接受新注册，但已注册学习者可以持续访问所有课程材料；不过，课程工作人员在此期间将不会提供讨论论坛支持。 祝好， 特拉维夫大学团队
Name:What do we Need a State For?
Description:Dear students, We are delighted that you have chosen to take our course 'Economic Growth and Distributive Justice'. We hope that you will not only benefit from the broad knowledge it offers, but also (or maybe, above all) profoundly enjoy the learning process. This week's lecture, the first in the course, will focus on a question you are all familiar with, or at least, with some version of it: Ask not what you can do for the state; ask what the state can do for you. We will try to answer this question, while introducing basic ideas and terminologies related to economics, law, philosophy, psychology, sociology and more. The notion of HAPPINESS will be a major theme, as it is the ultimate answer to the question above. As part of the discussion, we will touch upon diverse issues such as: defining happiness; finding out what makes us happy; and what the state can do to maximize the individuals’ wellbeing. We will discuss market failures such as externalities and free-riding on public goods, and understand the role of the state in overcoming them. So, are you ready? Let's begin! Please take a few minutes to fill in the Welcome Survey that will help us get to know you better. The teaching team Economic Growth and Distributive Justice
Name:The Relationship between Efficiency and Distributive Justice
Description:Dear students, We are happy to meet you all again, in the second week of our course 'Economic Growth and Distributive Justice'. We hope you enjoyed last week's session, and encourage you to continue participating actively. This week's lecture will delve deeper into the concepts of 'Economic Growth' and 'Distributive Justice'. Prof. Margalioth will take you on a short journey around the world, exploring rich and poor countries, describing veritable miracles that have taken place in some of them, and teaching you the intuition of the ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL. The discussion will go on to analyze the complex correlation between EQUALITY and EFFICIENCY, using colorful examples such as desert islands, plane crashes and leaking buckets. Finally, the lecture will present a number of theoretical frameworks, through which one can think about these two focal concepts. Aren't you excited? So let's begin week 2! Wishing you all a great learning experience, The teaching team Economic Growth and Distributive Justice
Name:Demonstrating Implications of Different Ethical Theories
Description:Dear students, Thank you for joining us on the third week of the course 'Economic Growth and Distributive Justice'. This week Prof. Margalioth will teach you the main theories of distributive justice, explain how we can choose between them, and discuss their relative strengths and weaknesses. Then he will show you why the value of a dollar is not necessarily, or perhaps, necessarily not, the same for different individuals, using a term you should already be familiar with – MARGINAL UTILITY. Then we will present an eye-opening example – of one poor guy named Bob, who has been involved in a traffic accident – to show you why the conventional ANALYSIS OF TAXATION, used by policymakers all around the world to achieve Economic Growth and Distributive Justice, should be replaced with an alternative, much better analysis - to be presented in next week's class. Let's begin week 3! Economic Growth and Distributive Justice team
Name:Distributive Justice: Measurement and Implications
Description:Dear students, In the first part of this week's class we will discuss the policy question posed in lecture number 3, and offer a solution based on the methodology we are studying in this course. As we hope you will see, this methodology, which focuses on maximizing wellbeing, provides you (our policymakers) with clear answers. We will then move on to the question of measurement: what should we measure when assessing the level of Distributive Justice in society? So let's begin week 4! The team of Economic Growth and Distributive Justice
If you really care about the big questions in the economies and societies of the 21st century, such as distributive justice - namely, inequality of income or wealth, and its correlation with economic growth - this course is meant for you. The knowledge you will gain can truly change your outlook on our world. "Economic Growth and Distributive Justice - the Role of the State" is the first part of a two part course and it includes the following four lectures: (1) What do we need a state for? (2) The Relationship between Efficiency and Distributive Justice (3) Demonstrating the implications of different ethical theories (4) Distributive Justice: measurement and implications Once you've completed the first part, we strongly recommend that you register for the second part entitled: "Economic Growth and Distributive Justice - Maximizing Social Well-being", as well. Taking both parts of the course would enable you to obtain a fuller and more comprehensive knowledge about Economic Growth and Distributed Justice. The course is founded upon the elemental idea that the role of the state is to maximize the well-being - or simply the happiness - of its residents. In 9 fascinating, edifying lessons, using only simple words and decoding professional terminologies that sometimes baffle the intelligent layman, the course expounds many truths – both intuitive and unintuitive. Often using examples from the US and Europe, it does not however focus on policies in any particular region of the world, and is directly applicable to all countries around the globe. The course touches upon the essence of important concepts like efficiency and equity, inequality and poverty, gross domestic product, tax evasion and tax planning; it presents the work of Nobel Laureate James Mirrlees and his followers - promoting a coherent system that integrates tax and government expenditures to maximize social welfare; and illuminates a range of high-profile issues from their economic angle: • Climate change: the atmosphere and oceans as public goods, and how smart (Pigovian) taxation can be used to combat the rapidly increasing threats to our planet; • Technology as the engine of economic growth; • Taxing the rich: How can we mitigate the growing inequality problem? Should we impose a global tax on capital? The curriculum includes interviews with major figures in the fields of law and of economics: Harvard's Elhanan Helpman, Dan Shaviro from NYU and Richard Epstein from the University of Chicago and NYU. After successfully completing this course, you can expect to be able to: • Better understand economic issues presented in the media • Form an informed opinion on the strengths and weaknesses of presented social economic policies • Define and measure inequality and poverty • Define the connection between inequality (income, wealth) and economic growth • Explain the foundations of economic growth • Design a tax and transfer system to maximize the happiness of individuals All these will allow you to better understand the policies being developed around you, and to play a larger, more informed role in their development, as a conscientious citizen. In order to receive academic credit for this course you must successfully pass the academic exam on campus. For information on how to register for the academic exam – https://tauonline.tau.ac.il/registration Additionally, you can apply to certain degrees using the grades you received on the courses. Read more on this here – https://go.tau.ac.il/b.a/mooc-acceptance Teachers interested in teaching this course in their class rooms are invited to explore our Academic High school program here – https://tauonline.tau.ac.il/online-highschool Please note that there is a second part to this course which is a direct extension of this part. We highly recommend to continue to the second part after you finish this one (https://www.coursera.org/learn/economic-growth-part-2/home/welcome). This course will temporarily close for enrollment from March 1st, 2022 to August 31st, 2022. During this time, the course will be closed for new enrolments. All of the course materials will continue to be able available to previously enrolled learners; however, the course staff will not provide support in the Discussion Forums during this period. Best, The Tel Aviv University Team
