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Re: Public Economics Delhi University

The University of Delhi is also known as Delhi University or DU. It is a public central university which is located in the city of New Delhi, Delhi, India.

It was established in 1922.

You are looking for the details regarding the Public Economics subject of the
B.A. (HONOURS) ECONOMICS course of Delhi University. So I am providing it to you:

PUBLIC ECONOMICS
Course Description
Public economics is the study of government policy from the points of view of economic
efficiency and equity. The paper deals with the nature of government intervention and its
implications for allocation, distribution and stabilization. Inherently, this study involves a formal
analysis of government taxation and expenditures. The subject encompasses a host of topics
including public goods, market failures and externalities. The paper is divided into two sections,
one dealing with the theory of public economics and the other with the Indian public finances.
Course Outline
1. Public Economic Theory
a. Fiscal functions: an overview.
b. Public Goods: definition, models of efficient allocation, pure and impure public goods,
free riding.
c. Externalities: the problem and its solutions, taxes versus regulation, property rights, the
Coase theorem.
d. Taxation: its economic effects; dead weight loss and distortion, efficiency and equity
considerations, tax incidence, optimal taxation.
2. Indian Public Finances
a. Tax System: structure and reforms
b. Budget, deficits and public debt
c. Fiscal federalism in India
Readings:
1. Joseph E. Stiglitz, Economics of the Public Sector, W.W. Norton & Company, 3rd edition,
2000.
2. R.A. Musgrave and P.B. Musgrave, Public Finance in Theory & Practice, McGraw Hill
Publications, 5th edition, 1989.
3. John Cullis and Philip Jones, Public Finance and Public Choice, Oxford University
Press, 1st edition, 1998.
4. Harvey Rosen, Public Finance, McGraw Hill Publications, 7th edition, 2005.
5. Mahesh Purohit, Value Added Tax: Experiences of India and Other Countries, 2007.
6. Kaushik Basu and A. Maertens (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Economics in India,
Oxford University Press, 2007.
7. M.M. Sury, Government Budgeting in India, 1990.
8. M. Govinda Rao, Changing Contours of Federal Fiscal Arrangements in India, Amaresh
Bagchi (ed.), Readings in Public Finance, Oxford University Press, 2005.
9. Paul Samuelson, 1955, “Diagrammatic Exposition of a theory of Public Expenditure”,
Review of Economics and Statistics, Volume 37.
10. Shankar Acharya, 2005, “Thirty Years of Tax Reform in India”, Economic and Political
Weekly, May, pp. 14-20.
11. Rangarajan and D.K. Srivastava, 2005, “Fiscal Deficit and Government Debt:
Implications for Growth and Stabilization”, Economic and Political Weekly, July2-8.
12. M. Govinda Rao, 2011, “Goods and Services Tax: A Gorilla, Chimpanzee or a Genius
like Primates?”, Economic and Political Weekly, February, pp. 12-18.
13. Report of the 13th Finance Commission, 2010-15.
14. Economic Survey, Government of India (Latest).
15. State Finances: A Study of Budgets, Reserve Bank of India (Latest).

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Contact:
University of Delhi
New Delhi, Delhi 110021
011 2700 6900

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