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Prof. James Poterba
Prof. Iván Werning
14.471
Fall 2007
Graduate
Theory and evidence on government taxation policy. Topics include tax incidence, optimal tax theory, the effect of taxation on labor supply and savings, taxation and corporate behavior, and tax expenditure policy.
Poterba, James, and Iván Werning. 14.471 Public Economics I, Fall 2007. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/14-471-public-economics-i-fall-2007 (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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