ECON 85100: Public Finance I at Graduate Center
3 credits · Fall 2026
Public Finance I (ECON 85100) at Graduate Center has 1 way to take it in Fall 2026. 1 of 1 section has an open seat right now.
The professor is: Timothy Goodspeed.
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Requirements
Class is open to either ECON or BUS Majors
About this course
This course in public economics introduces you to the study of the government role in the economy, and concentrates on taxation. We begin with the basics of why the government intervenes including public goods, social insurance, externalities, and political aspects. We then turn to tax theory including tax incidence and excess burden. These are elaborated upon by discussing the elasticity of taxable income, incentive effects such as on labor supply and savings, and optimal commodity and income taxation. Other topics include corporate and international tax issues, taxation and the financial sector, capital taxation, federalism, tax competition, tax evasion and corruption. An effort is made to relate discussions to the current policy debate.
Professors for ECON 85100 at Graduate Center, Fall 2026
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