Università Roma Tre

The course will deal, among others, with the following topics: composition of public expenditure and tax revenue; market efficiency and market failures; The role public goods and public remedies to externalities, with emphasis given to the public role for environmental protection; the trade-off between efficiency and equity and the re-distributive role of public policies; The tax and transfers system, taxes on income, consumption, and wealth; the size distribution of income and wealth and the concept of economic inequalities; the role of technology and automated algorithms as a guide to public intervention; the provision of public goods and services by central and local governments.

The main textbook adopted for the course is:

"Economics of the public sector" by JOSEPH STIGLITZ e JAY ROSENGARD