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Public Sector Theory

Summary

The subject is focused on acquiring knowledge at the level of the basic postulates of public economics. Increased attention is given to the causes and consequences of market failures; normative and positive starting points and forms of state intervention in the economy, including their failure; structure, size, efficiency of the public sector and basic functions of public finances.

Literature

HILLMAN, Arye L. Public finance and public policy: a political economy perspective on the responsibilities and limitations of government. Third edition. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-107-13631-1.
SLOMAN, John; GARRATT, Dean a GUEST, Jon. Economics. Tenth edition. Harlow: Pearson, 2018. ISBN 978-1-292-18785-3.
STIGLITZ, Joseph E. a ROSENGARD, Jay K. Economics of the public sector. Fourth edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]. ISBN 978-0-393-92522-7.

Advised literature

ATKINSON, A. B. a STIGLITZ, Joseph E. Lectures on public economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2015]. ISBN 978-0-691-16641-4.
DENHARDT, Robert B.; DENHARDT, Janet Vinzant a BLANC, Tara A. Public administration: an action orientation. 7th ed., international ed. [Boston]: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2014. ISBN 978-1-285-43401-8.
ROSEN, Harvey S.; GAYER, Ted a CIVAN, Abdülkadir. Public finance. 10th ed., global ed. McGraw-Hill series in economics. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education, c2014. ISBN 978-0-07-715469-1.


Language of instruction čeština, čeština
Code 115-0014
Abbreviation TVS
Course title Public Sector Theory
Coordinating department Department of Management
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Iveta Vrabková, Ph.D.