Lecture 6 - Public Expenditure: theory and practice

11 Fevereiro 2025, 11:00 • Paulo Trigo Pereira

2.2.3 Private versus public production and provision of pyblic goods

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Lecture 5 Public Expenditure Theory and Practice

10 Fevereiro 2025, 11:00 • Paulo Trigo Pereira

 Chapter 2: Public expenditure: theory and practice

  2.1. Some normative arguments about the role of the public sector

  2.1.1. Market failures

  2.1.2. Market injustices

  2.2.  Public expenditure and efficiency: public goods and externalities

  2.2.1. Public goods versus private goods

  2.2.2. The optimal provision of public goods

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Tutorial 2

5 Fevereiro 2025, 10:00 • Paulo Trigo Pereira

Theories about the role of the State in the economy

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Chapter 1: Public finance and the role of the state (conclusion)

4 Fevereiro 2025, 11:00 • Paulo Trigo Pereira

Chapter 1: Public finance and the role of the state (conclusion)

  1.2. Public finance and several theories about the role of the government

  1.2.4. The imperfect state

  1.2.5. The classical approach to public finance, interventionism and          constitutionalism

  1.2.5.1. Classical public finance and the minimal state

  1.2.5.2. Financial interventionism and the welfare state

  1.2.5.3. Constitutionalism and the imperfect state

  1.2.5.4. Characteristics of modern public finance

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Lecture 3 - Chapter 1: Public finances and the role of the state (1/2)

3 Fevereiro 2025, 11:00 • Paulo Trigo Pereira

Chapter 1: Public finances and the role of the state

  1.2. Public finances and several theories about the role of the government

  1.2.1. Introduction: an overview

  1.2.2. The minimal state and the primacy of the market

  1.2.2.1. The English classical school: the laissez-faire doctrine

  1.2.2.2. Robert Nozick: The market as a fair process

  1.1.3. The welfare state

  1.2.3.1. Definition

  1.2.3.3. The (re)distribution of income

  1.2.3.3. The provision of primary goods

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