The course focuses on the public economics of taxation. Normative topics include the efficiency and distributional aspects of taxation and positive topics include the incentive effects of taxation and tax incidence. Time permitting, some issues in public expenditure theory may be covered. Prereq: ECON 201; one of ECON 211, MATH 106/125, 109, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 128, 136, 138, 146, 148
