Re: Public finance text Bob Rider (bob_rider@csusm.edu) 24 Apr 1995 09:13:25 -0800 * Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] * Next message: Dr. Jurgen Brauer: "Re: Interactive exercises" * Previous message: Robert Rycroft: "Re: Interactive exercises" * Maybe in reply to: Tod Porter: "Public finance text" Reply to: RE>Public finance text Since your course is on state and local public finance, you might look at Ronald Fisher's text "State and Local Public Finance," Scott, Foresman, 1988. It is written for upper division udergraduates. In addition, check out Lee Friedman's text "Microeconomic Policy Analysis," McGraw Hill, 1984. It is written for first year graduate students in public policy. (Lee Friedman teaches in the Graduate School for Public Policy at Berkeley.) Although there is no calculus, it is fairly rigorous. He does some game theory, decision-making under uncertainty, and numerous applications of policy analysis from a micro viewpoint. I do not know if he has a new edition. Bob Rider -------------------------------------- Date: 4/19/95 8:22 PM To: Bob Rider From: tch-econ@vax1.elon.edu I am scheduled to teach a masters-level course on state and local public finance in the fall, and possibly a course on federal public finance in the winter. I am assuming I will have to rely mainly on articles, but I was wondering if anyone was aware of a text at a somewhat higher level than the typical undergraduate public finance texts. On another topic, for the first time in many years we are filling a micro field vacancy (industrial organization). Several candidates have reported that there seems to be something of a struggle in some PhD departments between new faculty who argue graduate micro theory should be taught with primary emphasis on game theory, and older faculty who put less emphasis on that approach. Some candidates have claimed that game theory will become one of the primary fields in micro theory, as opposed to being relagated to a single chapter. Any opinions on how much exposure to game theory students in a masters program should receive (most of the students do not go on to a PhD program)? What about at the undergraduate level? Obviously all the IO candidates have some game theory background, the issue is one of degree. Tod Porter FR164801@YSUB.YSU.EDU * Next message: Dr. Jurgen Brauer: "Re: Interactive exercises" * Previous message: Robert Rycroft: "Re: Interactive exercises" * Maybe in reply to: Tod Porter: "Public finance text"