Economic Growth and Distributive Justice

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 6 weeks

所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 经济与金融 大学或机构: Tel Aviv University（特拉维夫大学） 授课老师： Yoram Y. Margalioth Einat Solnik Inbar Ben-Ari

课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/ecojustice

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Important note: No former knowledge of mathematics, economics or law is required. 

This novel course unravels the complexities of economic growth and distributive justice, their strong interconnections and their weighty interdependencies. Decoding professional terminologies that sometimes baffle the intelligent layman, the course will provide you with the tools you need to truly comprehend, analyze and assess the modern economic and social environment. 

The course is founded upon the elemental idea that the role of the state is to maximize the welfare and wellbeing - or simply the happiness - of its residents. In 6 edifying lessons it describes and explains the various tools of fiscal policy which governments can use to this end. Expounding many truths – both intuitive and unintuitive – it 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: 

1. 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;
2. Technology as the engine of economic growth;
3. Taxing the rich: How to 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 economics: Harvard's Elhanan Helpman, Dan Shaviro from NYU and Richard Epstein from the University of Chicago and NYU.

 

课程大纲

Week 1:

What is the Goal of the State?; Why do we need a State to achieve this Goal?

Week 2:

The engine of Economic Growth; The relationship between Efficiency and quality.

Week 3:

Choosing the laws that would maximize Social Welfare (Happiness).   

Week 4:

Measuring and Defining Inequality, Poverty and Social Efficiency.

Week 5:

Who Bears the Economic Burden of Tax; Understanding Progressivity.

Week 6:

Designing the Optimal Tax and Transfer System. 

 

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