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Public Finance and Public Policy

Subjects: Economics · Finance

Art: William Playfair, Chart of Universal Commercial History, 1805 · Public domain

Instructor
Prof. Jonathan Gruber
Term
Fall 2024
Level
Undergraduate
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24 videos · 2 exams with solutions · 6 solutions · 24 handouts · 24 other files · 26 web pages
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 14.41 Public Finance and Public Policy, Fall 2024, Prof. Jonathan Gruber — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

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Lecture 1: Why Study Public Finance?

Lecture 3: Externalities in Theory and Practice

Lecture 4: Externalities in Practice II

Lecture 5: Public Goods Theory, Optimality and Pricing

Lecture 6: Cost/Benefit Analysis

Lecture 7: Political Economy

Lecture 8: Local Public Goods and Fiscal Federalism

Lecture 9: Public Provision of Private Goods: Education

Lecture 10: Social Insurance Theory

Lecture 11: Social Security

Lecture 12: Other Social Insurance Programs

Lecture 14: Health Care II

Lecture 15: Health Care III

Lecture 17: Redistribution and Welfare, Taxation

Lecture 18: Overview of Taxation and Tax Base, Tax Incidence

Lecture 19: Tax Incidence and Tax Efficiency

Lecture 20: Taxation and Labor Supply

Lecture 21: Taxation and Savings

Lecture 22: Wealth Taxation

Lecture 24: Corporate Taxation and Tax Reform

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MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Jonathan Gruber, 14.41 Public Finance and Public Policy, Fall 2024.

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2024 · Open the original course on OCW ↗

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