Schedule

This page contains all of the following resources for each class meeting:

Readings include textbook chapters and occasional journal articles
Assignments are due by the beginning of class unless otherwise stated
Class pages contain extra explanations, math & other helpful resourcesThese “online appendices” keep the slides nice and de-cluttered!
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Relevant materials (if applicable, icons will become links) will be posted before class meets.

Last Update: 14:54:14 Sat May 16 2020.

I. Challenges Requiring Collective Action	Reading	Class	Slides	Assignment
1.1 Introduction and Overview
1.2 Externalities and Bargaining
1.3 Property Rights
1.4 Public Goods and Collective Action
1.5 Efficiency and Justice
II. Constitutional Political Economy	Reading	Class	Slides	Assignment
2.1 Politics as Constraints
2.2 Beyond the Reach of Majorities
2.3 The Optimal Decision Rule
III. The Institutions of Representative Democracy	Reading	Class	Slides	Assignment
3.1 Voting I: Preference Aggregation & Cycling
3.2 Voting II: Ignorance and Irrationality
3.3 Voting III: Democracy Squared?
3.4 Interest Groups
3.5 Legislators
Midterm Exam due 8 PM Friday March 27
Transition to Online Courses (Please read)
3.6 Bureaucracy
3.7 The Rise of the Administrative State
3.8 Federalism
3.9 Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
IV. Applications, Proposals, and Insights	Reading	Class	Slides	Assignment
4.1 Is Our Politics Not ‘Corrupt’ Enough?
4.2 Preference Falsification
4.3 The Revolt of the Public
4.4 Taxation
4.5 Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax
4.6 Universal Basic Income
4.7 Government Deficits & Debt
4.8 Some Economics of Covid-19
Policy Paper due Fri May 1
Final Exam due 8pm Fri May 8 by email