Public Finance II

TAKAI, Tadashi
Compulsory Elective  2 credits
【Department of Economics】
15-1-1110-3236-04

1. Course Description
In Japan, the total scale of the public services (i.e., police, education, roads, water supply and sewerage systems, etc.) provided by the Central Government and the local governments accounts for 40% of the national income (cf; 30% in the United States, 50% in Germany). Public finance is an academic field which studies this “public economy.” This lecture is designed as the latter part of an introductory course to learn basic knowledge of public finance.